Posted on 11/24/2023 10:30:59 PM PST by John Semmens
I drive 5 miles under the limit, in the left lane, with my blinker on.
;)
Porsche...there is no substitute.
Unless you are a U-Boat commander.
A number of states already have posted speed limits that are quite shocking to our 15-minute-city-dwelling betters (e.g. 75 and 80 on most Texas interstates), and more red states will raises theirs in response to this diktat. So our brilliant federal planners are soon going to have to go back to imposing national speed limits.
Biden’s doing it because he’s pissed because his pedal car can’t keep up with us.
Pretty good!
The future is already here just waiting for the government to issue the laws and they will implement those hidden features. I suspect they can update software remotely as well.
No you just have to manually change lanes, then the radar sensor will have no effect and you can accelerate.
Wrong, it is the wrong speed for the driver too incompetent to be driving that speed.
Most drivers are not safe at most any speed, slow reflexes, poor judgement, eyesight, distractions.
Meaning there's now a technological over-ride of the traffic light system available to law enforcement in many places. They already have license-plate scanners that run yours automatically when the police car gets behind you, bringing a plethora of information on you to their in-car display with nary a question about searches or privacy invasion brought up in a court room yet.
Considering these one can better understand how the police have morphed from our protectors to antagonists bringing in government revenue. It's just far easier for them to go along to get along for that sweet retirement package.
Oh...I was pebble sprayed by a big truck the other day. When able to pass I saw on it's side, painted proudly and professionally, "Stone Spitter". I love the Road Warrior movies but don't want to live them.
You’re even more correct than I am, FRiend.
The only reason I have no plans to try hacking the built-in, out of the factory safeties on my 650cc, >55HP, >800lb two-cylinder 4-stroke Suzuki motorcycle (automatic transmission, leg shields, ABS, heated seats, heated grips, windscreen height adjustable while riding) is that it’s too much like work.
I weigh 120lb at the best of times, so do the math if you must ;-)
That’s also the storyline for Idiocracy, a Hollywood box office flop nearly a quarter of a century ago! I laughed my ass of when I finally got my hands on a copy!
Here in Ontario, Canada the penalties under our no-fault insurance as of before your accident are as follows, in no particular order, and incomplete, in layman’s terms:
1. Criminal: Indictable (choice of judge or judge + jury): At least a couple of months incarceration, included as the minimum 2 yeas under supervision (parole); *OR*
A summary conviction, trial by Judge alone, that can involve as little as an Absolute Discharge and no Public Record of conviction. Fighting it without a plea all but guarantees probation for up to two years less a day.
2. Insurance: The driver will be effectively uninsurable because the next consequence is that a year’s insurance will cost more than buying a good used car and paying with cash.
3. Ontario Highway Traffic Act: A lifetime licence suspension, with “lifetime” defined as “until the driver smartens up”.
And that, FRiend, is just a few reasons that driving in America, until established otherwise, will always be considered dangerous to everyone *except* those anyone who thinks he “knows” that America’s roads are the safest in the world.
Your family alone is motivation enough, but you knew that already FRiend.
Protip: Every speedometer I’ve ever compared to Google Maps or the free android GPS Test app, consistently reads 55MPH when your actual speed is 50MPH, regardless of whether the scale is metric-only (my bike) or dual-scale (every production car in America for nearly half a century, now hidden because it’s driver-selectable).
Comclusion: If you think you’re driving 5MPH below the posted 55MPH limit, I am confident that your actual speed is between 44 and 45MPH.
Your mileage may vary.
It means you’re tailgating by any standard.
Moi aussi ;-)
My bike has a rated top speed of 200km/h out of the factory. My comfort zone maxes out at 150km.h indicated (~135km/h actual) where it was Sunday, on a clear summer day, less than a couple of hours north of Toronto. The road is posted at 120km/h. It doesn’t take much simple arithmetic to figure out that most American Interstates I’m the slowest thing on the freeway. I “Get Away With It”) by obeying the one universal law that most drivers obey outside populations: Drive in the driving lane and only pass in the passing lane.
In Military and Motorcycle dialects of the King’s English:
Lead, Follow, or Get out of the Way!!!!!!
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