And the relatives of the family of four that was killed will just have to get over it.
Just as they have to when you are driving 55 and cause an accident.
Or, they could sue. Or, if the accident is clearly negligent driving, and not simply an accident, you could be charged with manslaughter, just as you could be if you negligently cause an accident and kill someone driving 55.
My point was that we could change the ticketing process so that tickets wouldn’t be issued for driving fast itself, but for actual issues with your driving, like if you actually lose control (which you can do at any speed, and you should always drive at a speed you can handle).
You could still charge people with reckless driving, if they are driving faster than conditions would allow to be safe, or if you are weaving in and out of traffic, or following too close, or cutting people off.
And yes, in my America, more people would likely be killed or injured. But the people who were punished would be the people who caused the deaths and injuries. We wouldn’t punish 20 million people for “driving too fast” because 20,000 of them if they drove that fast would injure or kill someone.
Freedom means risk. And it’s not like people aren’t already driving these high speeds. The speed limit is rarely enforced en masse, and what happens instead is highly selective enforcement, treating different people in far different ways based on whim or circumstance.
You can drive the speed limit and be passed by every car on the road, you can drive 9mph over and hope that the cops are all following that rule, you can drive the speed of every other car and hope the cops aren’t waiting for the out-of-state license plate, or the car with the NRA bumper sticker.
Or, you can set the speed limits based on what a reasonably trained driver could manage, and tell people who aren’t good drivers to drive slower and stay to the right.
You know, the Europeans seem to do OK with occasional stretches of road where they all can drive at the speed they are comfortable with.