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Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
I flubbed the title. Could you please either delete everything after the opening parenthesis or finish the descriptive statement I meant to add, which was "Students film the results of going the speed limit"? Thank you.
No sane person can drive in Atlanta.
I think they have a law against it...
Speed limits of 55 miles an hour on highways designed for much faster speeds are stupid. Not only are they a revenue enhancement device for government, they suit the Lowest Common Denominator of society, the dumb idiots that shouldn't be driving anyway. Only in America can some dumbass with nothing more than a heartbeat going on for them can get a driver's license.
They were lucky no one got shot.
"Spear added that the speed limit was lowered to 55 because it saves lives"
In Houston the EPA mandated that we lower the speed limit from 70 to 55 to lower pollution (even though it was shown it would not impact Houston's pollution problem). The speed limit was relaxed and raised to 60-65 in some areas but no posted limits of 70mph in city limits anymore. And not for safety. The city likes those tickets (for revenue).
If she is still alive and failed to detonate her suicide bomb, she failed the exam.
60 should be the national speed limit.
Not 55, not 65.... 60.
I witnessed a police officer on mototcycle do this one day (zigzagging on the highway to keep all 6 lanes compliant). He rode like this for a few miles and then sped off (breaking the law, ass he did to also take the lead of the pack). I witnessed his full ride and never saw any traffic condition to warrant his morning commute behavior.
And I never saw him ticket any offenders who attempted (unsuccessfully) to pass him by going faster than 60MPH.
He never turned his flashing lights or siren on.
What she saw was ... nothing. An empty highway, with one or two stray cars. And then, like the hordes on the horizon, over the rise come the students backed by a phalanx of cars, cars, cars. The film plays it for all it's worth, bouncing the image back and forth to the funky beat of the Guru Fish song "Plush."
"It was so fantastic," said Hunter. "I just started jumping up and down and going crazy. There's beeping horns and craziness."
Then it passed, Hunter said, and a woman driving on the bridge stopped and asked, "What was the point of all that?"
Hunter explained the project. It was to make people think, she said.
The woman amicably rolled her eyes, Hunter recalled. "It was kind of like, 'Oh, you kids and your statements.'"
LMAO... I can see why this won best comedy.
The state DOT disagrees with those who think these folks did something illegal. The people who passed on the berm were, however.
Your quote took my by surprise; I am in the middle of Atlas Shrugged right now. (Thanks to the recommendation of Freepers....I read Fountainhead last year.)
Now, whenever I hear news on the radio, Ayn Rand's words come to mind, as if they were a prophesy. It is very strange.
I've just begun section III, which is, thankfully, more optimistic. I am so glad that our society has not (yet?) succombed to her awful vision in Part II.
Great story about the filming of the speed limit. I only go a few miles over the speed limit, but my husband still says I drive way too fast. He's such a pokey guy.
They misspelled "obedience" in the title.
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This is as ignorant as the taxpayer financed cigarette commercials scripted and played out to offer you reasons you should hate corporate tobacco companies. Thus implying you shouldn't buy their product.
Speed limits were originally put in place to keep traffic flowing. Now with vehicle safe recommended speeds exceeding most posted limits, speed limits are there to slow traffic.
And like the cigarette commercials, there is no clear implication as to what they intended the outcome of their little experiment to be. Did they think traffic wouldn't back up? Posing a question, creating a video to confirm the question, still begs the question.
What was the question??
Doing 50 in a 55 is legal too. It's a limit, not a command directive. And getting to where you are going as quickly and safely as you can without incident is a product of our times, our population, and our technology. Not our laws.
Block these kids from getting a beer at their campus house party and see how in your face PO'd they get. And fast!
Bump for later.
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The problem is that the government owns the roads and so will decide what is done on them. If private individuals owned the roads then no one could complain about what speed they required their customers to drive.
http://www.neoperspectives.com/transportation_socialism.htm