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Originally Posted by xenigo
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What people fail to realize is that in good conditions, driving 130mph in a Porsche GT3 can be perfectly safe and perfectly reasonable. Only if you're driving outside of what's safe for the conditions does it become something that shouldn't be done.
The public doesn't seem to understand anything besides "the law is the law, and the speed limit is the speed limit" etc.
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Originally Posted by SmokeyTheBear
no public road is safe to drive 130mph. You don't have time to react at 130mph to things that take place on public roads..
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Public roads are inherently unsafe because the public is on them.
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Originally Posted by GatorB
It is. The speed limit was 55 for a REASON. If you need to get somewhere that fast get on a fucking plane.
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I am german, i have a Porsche and Germany has partly no speed limits. When traffic allows it, i drive 150 mph. It's perfectly legal and i have done it the last 10 years that i have that car without any accident. If someone wanted to change the speed limit in Germany to 55 mph there would be a public revolution.
is it unsafe? judge yourself - the number of deaths in traffic per 1 million people in Germany in 2010 was 45 and in the US 105 (
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verkehrstod)
the difference probably is: here people are used to it and take more care when changing lanes for example. i have seen some really bad and careless behaviour on US highways - including all those retards that seem to think having a phone conversation or texting is something you should do in traffic.
when we have the same discussions on GFY about guns it's always "it's not the gun, it's the people who kill". it's the same with cars and driving fast.