Posted on 03/02/2006 7:29:00 PM PST by Turbopilot
All states should set the speed limit independently. That limit should be 60, in my opinion.
When all is said and done, they are both authors of fiction.
Based on what?
ping.
God told me.
"Not 55, not 65.... 60."
The only people I see driving that slow are old people with bad eyesight and stupid people who can think fast enough to drive any faster.
According to the article, they were going to the maximum speed allowed by law in all lanes.
What can I say. Crash and die. It's just that attitude that kills.
I drive faster. I have to get to work. I get little sleep as is. I'm not getting up a half hour earlier. Highways were designed for rapid travel. 80 is normal for me.
In this matter, Sammy Hagar speaks for me..
That doesn't make any sense. You can't be cited legally for impeding someone's "right" to go 25 MPH over the speed limit especially if you are already going the maximum allowable speed.
If the flow of traffic is faster than you are driving, regardless of whether or not you are driving the speed limit, then you are impeding traffic. The 55 MPH speed limit is bull. I will not abide by it.
I always though it to be "Warp Factor 7" on the open road..
Your words. However if you believe the states should set the limit I have no problem with it. The thing is there are some areas of the country that 60 is not reasonable. Some areas it would be quite safe for the limit to be 80-90 or even up to the driver. Today's cars are quite safe at higher speeds
Are you so sure of that? That quote from Rand at the top of the thread sure seems like what is happening in the USA. Making all this silly stuff illegal (airing out your ride, growing what you smoke, making your own whiskey without permission from the feds, making strippers wear pasties, taking responsibility for your own protection, etc.) is evident in real life. Rand writes as a reflection of society. Chomsky is a parasite who accepts funding from the same entities he wishes to destroy.
They misspelled "obedience" in the title.
I stand corrected.... sorry I made us both waste keystrokes.
It also seems to me that the law requiring slower traffic to the right was being violated."
Well, you live in California, so you know that one.
Many, many morons in the fast lane who do not have a clue.
Flash the highbeams at them and get the bird.
Get too close and they hit their brakes.
Honk at them and get shot.
ping
In any case, I see fiction as a wonderful reflection, or the creative end-product of a society.
Never should it be used as the basis or starting-point of any law, culture, or ideal. That's plain sensationalism... dramatics.
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