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Re: Solve speeding by limiting cars!



In <ragnorokDI1DHG.GIy@netcom.com>, ragnorok@netcom.com (Death of The Gods) writes:
]Mark Spencer (marks@ludes.com) wrote:
]:         Since there is no place in the US where 65 mph can be legally
]....
]:         What is wrong with our government that they would ignore such a
]: simple way to enforce a law and save lives?
]
]If you're in west Texas on a hundred mile
]stretch of ruler straight road with no other cars and you want to travel
]150 mph, then go right ahead.  If you blow a tire and get killed, you are
]the only one taking the risk and you are the only one affected.


Imagine this...

You're on a ruler straight road in west Texas doing 110?? (don't know because
the speedometer tops out at 85, someone else in the car has a stopwatch 
getting split times on the mile markers ~32 seconds), and the radar detector 
goes off.  Your reaction:  hit the brakes.  Well this nearly locks up the tires
and with some skill and a bit of luck, you manage to avoid crashing in the ditch
on the side of the road.  Your speedometer just reaches 55 by the time the radar
detector goes mad, you hapily wave to the #@!$&^% cop as he speeds by going the
other direction.


Now imagine this without the speed limit law...

You pass by the cop doing 110, nothing happens.  No squeeling tires, no
chance of crashing in the ditch.  (You also saved money because you didn't have
to buy that radar detector.)


Now tell me, what's safer, having the speed limit or not.


..based on a true story...

Kevin Tapperson
kevintap@mail.utexas.edu



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