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Originally Posted by Jim_Gunn
Who are you and what did you do with DWB, lol? It's completely against your outlaw world view and lifestyle to support the government artificially limiting the speed at which cars can move at. Not to mention incredibly dangerous from a practical perspective if a vehicle can't move or accelerate at will to avoid obstacles.
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He's in the basement and I ain't letting him go for anything less than... $10.
I really don't want the government to meddle with anyone, for anything, but do cars really need to do 180+ MPH? It really doesn't matter to me who slows cars down, but if we were all capped at 70 MPH, then that is what we would deal with, as we don't need to be driving any faster than that anyway. If we do, we can hit the track.
My motorbike scooter does something like 90 MPH!!! Who needs a bike that goes that fast to drive around on public roads? Yes, you should be able to drive however you want, but not at the risk of everyone else. If they could contain you so you would only kill yourself, then speed on. Otherwise, why go that fast?
Where I live, we're #6 IN THE WORLD for road accident deaths. (
source) The USA is #107. You can not fathom some of the carnage I've seen here, and continue to see regularly, always due to speeding and/or drinking and driving. If cars and bikes here only went 70 MPH, it would probably cut the accidents and deaths down dramatically. And that, I'm all for, however it needs to happen.
Will some get into accidents because they can not speed out of the way? Probably. People will still die, they just won't die in the numbers they do now. No where near.
The fair thing to do is have an autobahn style road in every country where those who want to speed, can speed. Everyone else drives on the normal road and with slower cars and bikes. The choice would then be yours. And after having survived a high speed accident where I should have been killed, and seeing all the accidents here, I will gladly take the slow road where the cars and bikes are capped at a slower speed.
Having said all of that, none of this is going to happen anytime soon, so it's not even worth getting worked up over. I can't imagine the nightmare of converting old cars and forcing everyone into it. Just doesn't seem possible.