The strong nonequilibrium quasiparticle distribution established at high vortex velocities leads to an electronic instability at a maximum velocity u;, as first predicted by Larkin and Ovchinnikov. In epitaxial c-axis oriented films of YBa2Cu3O7-δ we have observed two crossover phenomena in this highly nonlinear resistive behavior. First, at low magnetic fields B the spatial homogeneity requirement for the quasiparticle distribution results in the proportionality vФ^-~B^-1/2, whereas above the crossover field we have vФ^- = const. Second, at temperatures approaching Tc the discontinuity in the electric resistance disappears when the inelastic quasiparticle scattering rate Tin^-1 becomes equal to (kB/h)(Tc - T).