can you quote a post where someone thinks doing 10mph over is dangerous?

DD classes are never wrong. At least not when you're going to use the knowledge category as a broad catch-all to include everything from laws to road conditions.

Stop ninja-editing your posts. It's really annoying.

Do you disagree that attitude is the most common factor in accidents? We all know how to operate the car. You're pressing a gas pedal and holding a wheel. Most of us are more mentally stimulated by playing 1 table of poker. We don't forget laws and what the road we're driving on looks like. The main thing the can change though is attitude (I'm awesome, I'm better than everyone else, I focus more when I speed, I can drink and drive, I focus more when drunk, blah blah blah) That's all attitude issues.

And your opinion is wrong. Rural highways should not be 100mph. There are a ton of people who shouldn't even have a license. Having them driving that fast is stupid. You can drive that fast if you want. It's your gamble and your right until they take your license away. But to say they should just raise the limit that much for everybody is a stupid opinion.

I can quote a post saying that "it's wrong." prior to when I left, that was one of the last posts I remember seeing.

@ whoever is advocating 100 mph on interstates, if everyone did that, you'd lose a lot of comfort knowing you can do as you please (intimidation factor is quite nice when it's in your favor).

So why can't I drive at that speed if I believe I am qualified? I'm going to get punished. By your logic, I should be allowed to and not be punished, but that is not the case, thus the speed limits need to be risen.

Sure attitude is the key, but also ****** drivers is the bigger problem. I don't talk on my cell phone or do stupid ****. I focus, and I know I can drive perfectly fine at 90-100 if I was allowed to do so without any reprimand.


Drinking and driving is just stupid. Stop using that example because I'd never advocate such a stupid thing. Along with the fact that is not just attitude, but you are mentally inhibited by a force that you cannot control.

how about some nit looks up crash/fatality statistics before and after for Montana -- used to be "reasonable", now 75 I think.

D10,

Not sure if you were still around, but about 2 years ago Virginia introduced an awful reckless driving rule.

Basically anything 20+ mph over the limit results in a $1500 fine for VA residents, but no one else!

Gotta love VA putting a steeper penalty on their own tax-paying residents.

You're Army??? Ok, now this thread makes sense.

You won't be punished, remember? You and d10 already said it was worth your time and money to speed. You save so much time going 30 over and only rarely get caught. So stop saying you're being punished. You are getting places faster than legally allowed and paying only a small price for it. I really don't care about that. What I care about is the general limit being raised. Not everybody can go that fast.

Now you mention ****ty drivers.... finally. You see that even if you are good at driving, you aren't driving in a vacuum you 'tard. No matter how good a person you are you have to live among murderers and pedophiles. And no matter how good you are at operating a car you still share the road with girls texting, immigrants, potholes, and deer.

It's like you are learning but it's not registering. You seem to be making my points for me but you keep arguing. I don't get it. You have some kind of neurological car wreck going on right now. Not surprising I guess.

Totally disagree with this though. Looking only one direction? That's not smart. I still constantly use my rear view mirror... how else are you going to know if a cop gets on at an exit? ha, maybe that's why you've gotten so many tickets,

Ever driven in Ireland? I worked in Ireland for 3 months and had to drive to work everyday on a tiny ass road. The speed limit was 100km/hr, but if it were in the US it would have been 15-20mph. They want you to go fast so that you get off the road quicker and not encounter a lot of cars.

you've been in 5 accidents, master driver

Considering you've already had five accidents and you think they're all somebody else's fault, your opinion is worth about as much as a warm bucket of hamster vomit. But thanks for sharing.

Now on to another thought I had:
I don't possess the skillz/access, but if someone could identify OP by tracing his IP address, we could then check court dockets online and inform the local traffic court, wherever his next ticket is pending, about this and OP's other threads. The life saved might even be OP's.

1. I don't drive over 30. Where do I say I do this? This is just not a good idea all around because of the penalties, not safety. Obviously I don't care when driving short distances on local interstates that actually have traffic, but rural ones make no sense.

2. ****** drivers on rural highways have very little impact. You have so much room and passing on the left or right can be done at most times. There is no reason why rural highways should be only 5-10 MPH faster than highways in busy counties/cities. There are at least 10x the cars.

I don't think you understand that driving 20+ is a serious offense and often includes reckless driving. There is no way that it is either dangerous or reckless on many rural interstates. I'd like to be able to drive 90, but the penalties are too severe to risk it.

And yes, modern cars nowadays can easily handle those kinds of speeds.


And of course, under normal conditions. Prob wouldn't want to drive too much above 80 in the rain.

How do you not understand the difference between what you are capable of, and what the general population is capable of? Do you not know how speed limits work?

You expect to see two signs on the road:

Speed Limit: 65
niftymatt Limit: 100

Get it through your head. I've gotten ticketed for 95 in a 70 at night. I've driven a POS 4-cyl 123mph before (when I was your age and dumber). I think I'm better at it than most people, yes, but I'm not dumb enough to suggest that there's no reason the overall limit shouldn't be raised to 100mph.

Just last year I drove 90+ for 2 hours on I-25 south of Pueblo, Colorado. Got up to 98. Conditions were about as good as possible. Everyone was driving at least 85, though there were very few cars. I was trying to catch my plane in Colorado Springs (made it by 5 minutes). It doesn't mean it wasn't dumb and it doesn't mean most people should be allowed to do it without repurcussion. Many people shouldn't even be on the road.

Except that what many people are capable would carry serious penalties if they tried it. If there were no money in tickets, then none would be written. If it is safe to drive 90, why can't I just because a 60 MPH speed limit is good during rush hour?

I also don't think you realize that not everyone would drive that fast. In fact, most people probably wouldn't get above 80. Not everyone on the Autobahn drives as fast as they can.

You already got plenty of people driving 50-55 on 60 MPH interstates.

Sigh.

You're making a big assumption with "it is safe to drive 90". SAFE FOR WHO!? You? Or the average shmuck ????? THERE'S A ****ING DIFFERENCE, and society can't have some cars able to go 100 and others, 70. The 70 mph drivers wouldn't know if you're coming up behind them at 70, or 100 (unless your car is painted "safety red" and spraypainted with the number "100" on it).

I do realize not everyone would go 100. Some would go 80, others would go 110. DO YOU THINK THAT IS SAFE? It's not. In fact it's very dangerous.

Do you not realize how the Autobahn works? People driving at HUGE differences in speeds.

If everyone keeps their lanes which they generally do in rural highways, yes it is safe. Braking to 30 MPH less is not that much. We aren't asking people to stop from 100-0 on a dime.

Take a look at this video. Look how fast he is passing. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6DzsdSWTMug

They might be driving nice BMWs, but they are still passing at 70+ MPH.

Also, anyone driving at 100 could easily slow down to accommodate a 70 MPH 'tarding up the hammer lane.

No, I do not know how the Autobahn works. I've never been to Germany and have no reason to visit. Further, I don't know why you keep bringing it the **** up in this thread, when your original argument was that rural American highways should all be 100mph. Stop talking about the Autobahn - I don't give a **** about the Autobahn.

boorish american

I'm not sure where some of you live, but deer are a real threat to drivers in my state. (WI). Nobody in their right mind would go 100 on rural roads around here. If you think you can avoid deer by simply scanning for them, you are wrong. Everybody likes to think to think they can successfully handle their vehicle at high rates of speed. Maybe some of you can. But you have to deal with other drivers as well. If you do get into an accident, how fast you are going makes a huge difference.
Also, why the hell are you all driving so much?

Well I don't even know who you are so your opinion is worth less.

Also there are much easier ways to identify me. Considering a lot of people on this board know my full name. I have no pending court cases though, and even if I did your idea is ******ed.

No I still check around me, I'm just saying you don't have to focus on those areas nearly as much as you would if you were the slowest guy on the road.

Grunch: Where I am from, driving on a suspended license is not only a criminal charge, but if you do it enough times, it can be charged as a felony. As far as I am concerned, a felony conviction and some prison time might do us some good. At the very least, you might stop bragging about your ****** driving.

This is how I know you're just a self-deluded attention whore. Most places I've driven (Ontario, and the US Northeast) the fastest person on the road is consistently going a LOT more than 20mph over the limit.