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Re: 65 means 65
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Subject: Re: 65 means 65
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From: jeh@cmkrnl.com (Jamie Hanrahan, Kernel Mode Systems)
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Date: 9 Aug 95 15:14:42 PDT
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Newsgroups: ca.driving
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Organization: Kernel Mode Systems, San Diego, CA
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References: <9508070140.AA25287@aladdin.ac.tandem.com> <406ku4$9vl@gap.cco.caltech.edu>
In article <406ku4$9vl@gap.cco.caltech.edu>, addam@cco.caltech.edu
(Adam Neil Villani) writes:
> If anything, bad speed
> laws make criminals out of otherwise good drivers and ensure greater
> speed differentials on roads, which is one major factor in causing
> accidents. This is because there will be a minority of drivers that
> keep their speeds artificially low to comply with the law rather
> than safety.
"Criminals" is going a bit far, since most simple speed violations
aren't criminal offenses, but these too-low limits do make scofflaws
out of a majority of motorists.
And there is a very real problem here; the speed limit signs are like
the boy who cried wolf. If motorists could believe that posted limits
really did reflect maximum, or even typical, safe speeds, we would then
have more tendency to obey the occasional speed limit that has to be
set low to reflect a non-obvious hazard... a blind curve coming up
with an intersection just beyond, a hazardously banked road, etc.
--- Jamie Hanrahan, Kernel Mode Systems, San Diego CA
Internet: jeh@cmkrnl.com (JH645) CompuServe: 74140,2055
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