Speed kills?

[alwaysFlOoReD]

Watch the vid. It puts into words and pictures what I have been thinking for years.
http://youtu.be/2BKdbxX1pDw

Richard

 

[SenorNoob]

I just watched that whole thing. And it's exactly right.

 

[LearjetMinako]

Got to get ready for work. Just watched the first few minutes, makes sense so far. Will watch the rest when I get off.

 

[straycat]

If you do get caught it will cost a good amount of money when you get that ticket for speeding...but don't forget the idiots who speed and kill others or themselves. It is a stupid thing to do and we all see it every day!! I have lost a few friends from stupid speeding drivers. What pissed me off more was the fact that the reckless speeder who killed two of my friends many years ago was not killed.He was doing over 140 mph in Z28 Camaro.
He was hospitalized for a few weeks and then got to go home. His excuse in court was that my friends were stupid to be out at 3:00 in the morning and they were impeding his right to drive fast on a dark winding road. Justice? My best part of this story is that the guy had to go to jail for only 15 months and the jerk did not last 3 months...he was killed by another inmate for pushing and shoving and then cutting in line for chow!!!

 

[doorgunner]

It would be great to have open speed "limits" on the U.S highways............

but..........................



there are just too many (fill in the blank)ing IDIOTS for that to happen

 

[straycat]

Years ago I was in Germany several times when I lived there and drove on the Autobahn. Fast drives and you very seldom saw an accident. Then, years later the government was starting to do something about the non regulations on the emissions. I came back to Germany a few years later and saw what happened to the forest that was up so close to the roadways...it was eroding, dying...way back by over 45-50 yards. The pollution from autos on the wide open areas was killing the forrest. Emissions was then being required and speed limits were starting to be enforced.

 

[85_Ranger4x4]

It would be great to have open speed "limits" on the U.S highways............

but..........................



there are just too many (fill in the blank)ing IDIOTS for that to happen

Interstates maybe, highways would be a really bad idea.

Meeting a combine at the top of a hill is bad enough at 60mph...

 

[MastuhWaffles]

When I was in Germany even off the auto bahn there were cars still going fast. I do appreciate the cops that will stand out there and make themselves clearly visible. Over here in where I live now, we have a long open highway that just got changed to 75mph, and the cops love to give tickets out. Especially memorial day, I saw at least 30 of them.

 

[bmerr98]

There are diffferent reasons for going fast. I've heard it said that Europeans drive fast because they like to drive fast, whereas Americans often drive fast because they're in a hurry. May be some truth ti that...
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[Andy D]

I get nasty-grams when the GPS in my van alerts that I'm speeding. Lately. I'm consciously trying to keep with in limits. The 65 mph limit is a joke. Trouble is trying to merge into 70 mph with a Transit Connect. Local highway has a 60 mph limit. It is kinda fun. I wake people up by entering at 65 and accelerating into the breakdown lane beside the right travel lane. The vans have numbers and a number to call if you don't like my driving. I haven't had a call yet. Driving over the bridges to the Cape, Ive slowed down to the 40 mph limit. There were 2 fatalities this summer on the Sagamore bridge. They did away with the rotaries on the approaches to create a better traffic flow. It worked too well. Used to go over the bridges at 60, because that is what the traffic is doing. No more, I'm doing 40 . The span is an arch, but it is really a 40 sided shape, due to the expansion joints. The surge in the suspension plus the side winds, can combine to make handling flighty. Combine that with rain and/or heavy traffic. I try not hold up traffic on rt6 which has a 55 mph limit that drops to 50 in Dennis. And there are places that it drops to 40. And , I've been out there when 40 in dangerous. Back in the day, it was a 55 mph limit. and that was a joke. I used to drive fast, now I have too much to account for to risk losing my driver's license

 

[LearjetMinako]

Okay, now that I finally made it home, got to watch the rest of the clip. I will have to agree to 90% of what is said in the video. From my experience, driving in Oklahoma, hardly anybody obeys the speed limit and you do come across a few that drive under it. I drive with the flow of traffic, even if that means driving 10 MPH faster than posted speed limit. As along as I am driving within a reasonable speed for the road, weather, and skill, I'm okay with it. 80% of the time, I will drive the speed limit when traffic is light and they can go around. But when traffics heavy and tight, I go with the flow.

As for the speed limits being set lower than what they should for a ticketing profit. A good example of that here is on Eastern between I-240 & NE 27th. This stretch of straight 2-lane, 2 mile road had a posted speed limit of 40 MPH. That's okay by me, but most everyone drove it at 50 MPH or higher. And then there would be a Moore city cop waiting behind a sign to get you. Well, that road is now being torn up and replaced. You wanna know what the speed limit is now through a construction zone. 25 MPH !!! That is a hard speed to keep for a 2 mile straight stretch. 35 MPH or 40 MPH is less painful. Because of that speed limit now, I avoid that area as it is a speed trap. Any speeding ticket issued in a construction zone is double the fine. I hope when they get done with expanding Eastern to a 4-lane, they up the speed limit to 45 MPH like most of the interconnecting rural roads.

 

[naford]

In Ohio they finally did something about Lindale the speed trap on 71 that has less than 1 mile of highway and only one entrance north and one exit south. You have to have over 200 people in your town before you can have Mayors court. Theirs is less. Cut into their revenue base big time. I believe they said 80% of their budget was from traffic tickets. Now they are going to have traffic cameras to try and raise revenue.

Also in Ohio I just saw this one on the public channel. The Ohio Supreme Court just heard a case about the Berea Municipal Court that charges court costs for every violation. So lets say your caught speeding. They then charge you with not wearing your seatbelt and your taillight isn't working. If you plead no contest to the 3 charges they would hit you up with 3 court costs. Now lets say the judges waves the seatbelt and taillight charges. You still get charged with 3 court costs. I'm waiting to see what the supreme court has to say about it.

 

[bmerr98]

The fatal flaw in the video (though he makes a lot of sense) is the assumption that people will drive sensibly. We all know that doesn't happen all the time. I am of the mind that laws are for people who do not do what they ought to do by themselves, those who cannot/will not self govern.

For most of us, local, state, and Federal government spends very little in policing our behavior. We police ourselves. We do what we're supposed to do with consideration for others (most of the time). If it were up to us, we could all go back to the days when we could leave our doors unlocked and our keys in the ignition, because we wouldn't be getting into our neighbor's things, and they wouldn't be getting into ours.

Unfortunately, more and more people for whatever reason seem to lack the sense, respect for others, common decency, etc to govern themselves and do what they ought. That's why government (that we pay for) has to expend so much effort to make and enforce laws.

There's a verse in Proverbs, I think it's in chapter 18, but paraphrased it says, "For the transgressions of a people, many are the princes thereof." In other words, because people won't do what's right, government expands. And there you have it.

 

[projectnitemare]

This video makes me think of the impending speed trap a few miles from my house. The state will put out those radar signs displaying your speed and what the limit is. Too bad they have a 35mph radar sign in a 45mph zone. There is a 45mph sign 200 yards before the radar and also one directly across the road for the other direction. I'll fight that ticket and win next week when they replace that sign with a cop car.

 

[85_Ranger4x4]

The fatal flaw in the video (though he makes a lot of sense) is the assumption that people will drive sensibly. We all know that doesn't happen all the time. I am of the mind that laws are for people who do not do what they ought to do by themselves, those who cannot/will not self govern.

For most of us, local, state, and Federal government spends very little in policing our behavior. We police ourselves. We do what we're supposed to do with consideration for others (most of the time). If it were up to us, we could all go back to the days when we could leave our doors unlocked and our keys in the ignition, because we wouldn't be getting into our neighbor's things, and they wouldn't be getting into ours.

Unfortunately, more and more people for whatever reason seem to lack the sense, respect for others, common decency, etc to govern themselves and do what they ought. That's why government (that we pay for) has to expend so much effort to make and enforce laws.

There's a verse in Proverbs, I think it's in chapter 18, but paraphrased it says, "For the transgressions of a people, many are the princes thereof." In other words, because people won't do what's right, government expands. And there you have it.

I think a lot of it is that people come in from afar and don't know the ins and outs of an area. Big straightaway here hammer down, sharp turn there holly crap...

They can't seem to read either, there is a place were the state highway goes from 2 lane with 55mph posted to four lane with 65 posted. 9 times out of 10 if I get passed within 10 miles of that by an out of stater I will pass them back when it changes to four lane. They are still running the same 65mph they were in the 55mph zone.

We have better cars and roads so people can move around more freely than before so you have more people out of their normal area.