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    Default Speeding isn't necessarily reckless when on a major highway

    I think it's possible to drive 100 miles an hour on an interstate highway safely. I've done it.

    Speeding in and of itself is not necessarily reckless. Doing it in heavy traffic....yes. Weaving while doing it...yes. But if you're on an open stretch of road and the traffic is light, I don't see the need for a speed limit.

    It's reckless driving that is the problem. Speeding laws are merely revenue generators for local governments, at least on expressways.

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    Default Re: Speeding isn't necessarily reckless when on a major highway

    Here's my theory - before giving someone a driver's license, put him or her in a grocery store for an hour with a shopping cart. If you can't shop without stopping in right in front of someone or pulling out in front of other people, then you shouldn't have a driver's license.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Mr Hyde View Post
    I think it's possible to drive 100 miles an hour on an interstate highway safely. I've done it.

    Speeding in and of itself is not necessarily reckless. Doing it in heavy traffic....yes. Weaving while doing it...yes. But if you're on an open stretch of road and the traffic is light, I don't see the need for a speed limit.

    It's reckless driving that is the problem. Speeding laws are merely revenue generators for local governments, at least on expressways.
    I agree 100 percent! Because I have done it and I don't have one ticket and have never been stopped by a cop. My record is clean! Im also a big pussy with driving I make sure I keep my distance at all times .I guess you can say im a very good driver, im extremely scared to get in a car crash, so I know i'll do my best to avoid it.

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    Default Re: Speeding isn't necessarily reckless when on a major highway

    WHat the hell kinda logic is that, B21Q?? "because i've never been caught, it can't be reckless??" YOU'RE LUCKY, THAT'S ALL.

    How can you be sure you're driving at the best of your abilities when your senses are heightened and your reflexes/stopping time is decreased by speeding? THAT'S A FACT.

    take it to the fucking track.



    I agree that if there is VISIBLY no one around for a long time, it doesn't harm anyone... but say there was something in the road? Say a deer ran out? Your abilities are impeded.
    Unless you can SEE for a long ways around you that you aren't endangering anyone/yourself by going faster, it's really not safe, ESP over 100! jeezus...
    But the logic of 'not getting caught/having a clean record' has nothing to do with whether or not you're reckless, or even a good driver. It simply means you haven't been caught speeding excessively.

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    The fact is many cars on the road today are NOT equipped to safely drive at such speeds. Therefore you are not only putting yourself in danger, but the other motorists in your general area should your cars tires or other parts malfunction mid-drive.

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    Default Re: Speeding isn't necessarily reckless when on a major highway

    ^ also a damn good point

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    ^ I never said THAAT! I know for a damn fact I am NOT a reckless driver. I guess it's one of those things that you have to be there to know what I mean . I dont drive that way on normal highways where there is alot of cars around me. You see every 2 weeks me and my bf leave to eighter San Antonio or Sweetwater . You're basically on this one highway with maybe 1 or 2 cars around you the whole time .Speed limit is eighter 70 or 80 . Most people go higher because there is no one there for it to be reckless driving.

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    Default Re: Speeding isn't necessarily reckless when on a major highway

    Quote Originally Posted by beauty21queen View Post
    Most people go higher because there is no one there for it to be reckless driving.
    if a tree falls in the forest....

    "reckless" is the state's interpretation and its assertion of the vehicle code, not YOUR subjective definition.

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    Oh whatever. Here we go again.




    Flame away lame asses

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    Default Re: Speeding isn't necessarily reckless when on a major highway

    Quote Originally Posted by beauty21queen View Post
    Oh whatever. Here we go again.




    Flame away lame asses
    ^Flaming is name calling. Flaming is not disagreeing with ideas.

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    ^Yeah but in this forum it seems like its bitchweb now.

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    She didn't flame you....?

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    Default Re: Speeding isn't necessarily reckless when on a major highway

    Quote Originally Posted by beauty21queen View Post
    Oh whatever. Here we go again.




    Flame away lame asses
    lame asses?? my friends get killed by people like you who interpret things to your own liking and feel you're 'entitled' to speed. go look at some pics of motorcycle deaths (and fatalities in general) caused by speeders. i'm sure they felt just the same way as you. if you want to insult, get the thread locked, and be defensive, then that's your closed-minded loss.

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    Default Re: Speeding isn't necessarily reckless when on a major highway

    Just because people are debating what you view is rational thinking when they believe not doesn't mean it's bitchy b2q.

    Lets remain calm, rational and mature shall we? Resorting to name calling and such is far from rational behavior.

    The fact of the matter remains:

    1. Wreckless driving kills people.
    2. We aren't all saints, no one is claiming to be either.
    3. Not getting pulled over and speeding is LUCKY and doesn't make it right.
    4. Flaming = name calling not banter and a debate
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    I'm tired of this. Several posts tonight I've seen from B21Q are rude and inflammatory, and I don't get why. Especially in this thread, where there was only DISAGREEMENT, not flaming going on.

    Please stop.

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    Are there flames? I have marshmallows....
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    I have chocolate!
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    Default Re: Speeding isn't necessarily reckless when on a major highway

    Like most such topics, it is lame because it's a gray scale topic people want to reduce to simple black and white rules, yet the reality is not, so the arguments are futile.

    Somewhere between going 0 MPH and say, 200 MPH are varying degrees of risk, from lower to higher. People are not all the same. Cars are not all the same. Roads are not all the same. Weather conditions are not all the same. Etc.

    So picking out some particular case in which the driver has the right focusing skills, eye sight, reflexes, suitable car, lack of distraction, roads without damage, and so on, who gives a fuck. That is not relevant to how or why speed laws are selected.

    At best, speed laws are at best averages over all possible factors, that tend to be safe for the group of all humans in all cars, as a whole. Sure, there may be individuals in some cars in some weather conditions who could go faster, but that is insane to expect law enforcement to sort out every exception.

    They can't and the don't because it makes no sense to even try. The cost and effort required to make sure every possible combination of safe speed is tolerated is .. immeasurable.

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    I will close this if people won't chill out.
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    People can be killed by being it by a car going 30 mph....

    The speed limit on 35 is thinking about being change because of extra funding and toll roads down to 60...in farmville not because of safety.

    A lot of of speed limits are purely made so that the state receives funding for it...not so children walking out behind parked cars dont get hit (hello where talking about high ways...) and if an animal gets hit, oh well. Should we all drive 15 mph so we dont kill innocent bugs on our windshields, or should we swerve and crash into on coming traffic because i cat runs across the street....come on.

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    Quote Originally Posted by TigersMilk View Post
    I will close this if people won't chill out.
    I say close it now. It is just going to continue. Just my opinion, it needs to end before it gets any further. You are the mod though hun, its your call

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    CLOSE it? I have marshmallows! Soph has chocolate! All we need is graham crackers!
    "The problem with the world is that everyone is a few drinks behind."
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    Hey, if the bug is 'speeding' then I'm sure we could kill it with our windshields going 15 mph too!

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    Quote Originally Posted by MojoJojo View Post
    CLOSE it? I have marshmallows! Soph has chocolate! All we need is graham crackers!

    Ok, ok. I got the graham crackers!!

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    yay!!!

    see good can come out of all things!
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