What are your thoughts on speeding laws?

What are your thoughts on speeding laws?
Is speeding degenerate or is the government wrong to punish people for it?

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I think 55, 65 & 70 on a long commute (2+ hours) can eat a dick. I can drive 85-90 easily without endangering anything except maybe a racoon or deer or something. Within more urban areas, speed limits usually make pretty good sense and only rarely seem too slow (some 25mph zones for instance can be pretty brutal).

>"Punch that shit into 80 and let go of the steering wheel" - Wayons Brothers.

The police wont stop you here unless you go over 160kmh on the highways. But I don't speed in urban areas, doesn't really make you arrive any faster anyway

this is a mph thread
convert or leave pineapple.

100mph

this thread will be flooded by germans hailing our Autobahn in no time

how does one support a speed limit but not gun control measures

Wanting to go faster than the posted speed limit isn't just a stupid idea, it's irresponsible. A hundred times as many people die in car accidents than guns. That's Three Hundred Thousand people a year, and that does not include people who get crippled.

Also, you should really convert to the far superior metric system. You're just making yourself look like a fool.

Since I am merely travelling, speed limits do not apply to me, pig.

You can drive as fast as you want on your own private road.

I see it as a game of "let's find out if you're paying attention to the road." If you speed by a parked cop car then you're either oblivious or stupid.

Speed limits are just there for the state to extort money from us.

They have absolutely no impact on safety

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Roads have all been engineered to be safe at higher-than-posted speeds, except for traffic light timing which could ostensibly be adjusted.

>Wanting to go faster than the posted speed limit isn't just a stupid idea, it's irresponsible.
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>are laws that potentially save lives bad?

>drive the speed limit in the right lane
>people tailgate me at an unsafe distance and blow past me angrily when they get a chance

REEEE FUCKING NORMIES
I JUST WANT TO BE A SAFE DRIVER

Deliberately driving slower than the flow of traffic increase danger on the road moron

Yes
Especially when they're based solely on rhetoric and false causes
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>you should really convert to the far superior metric system

You guys still using metric? I would've thought cuckstan trudeau would have proposed a bill to switch over to a more feminist system of weights and measures by now. One in which men don't get a higher number just for being taller, for example.

Yes yes autobahn gut für Anschluss yes
>implying

People cant even stay away from trees children or the upcoming traffic on the opposite in the current situation, so rather keep the speed limits

There are several roads near my home that arbitrarily throttle anywhere from 35 to 60 on the same stretch of road for basically no reason. Most people usually do 55+ the entire stretch and I regularly see people pulled over in the more speed-trap parts.

Constitutional right versus tailgate me and I will shoot you in your fucking head, user.

Speed LIMIT.

Keyword in there friend.

>what is the second amendment

hurrdurr look at me

>militia

It´s over, get over it

>takes Houssein´s dick unmotivated

>Speed LIMIT.
>Keyword in there friend.
That doesn't change what I said
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Speed limits should absolutely be ignored.

>Constitutional right versus tailgate me and I will shoot you in your fucking head, user.
Wow, so much cringe....

>that picture

I fucking hate liberals.

>militia
So you're illiterate.

Ignore the faggot. You stated you're in the far right lane and you're driving exactly the speed limit. You're only impeding traffic because some butt flustered retard doesn't understand that the left lane is for passing.

What actually annoys me more is when I'm in the far left lane, keeping a relatively safe distance to the car in front of me, and some shitstain does 40+ mph over the speed limit in the slower lane because they have to be the car in the front of the line, thus making it harder for you to actually move over and yield to them.

She looks like she smells.

This attitude is why there are accidents.

>that picture

How long are you on Sup Forums? She isn´t liberal by any means. She is antigerman first of all, then anti-white, lgbt, socialistic and if I´m not wrong of jewish russian ancestry.

Science disagrees
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Rhetoric=/=reality

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>punish people for it
Here if you pay your road fines by the end of the first month it's 50% off. Is it like that everywhere?

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i have driven a vehicle at 126mph. prove me wrong.

I don't give a fuck about it.
Everything is legal when cops are not around.
I am a free man.
No laws written by men or gods of this world apply to me.

Top zozzle XD truly a libertarian

xd

How many of you fuck-speed-limits cretins think you should be able to use a mobile phone while driving?

Sup Forums idiots are even a menace IRL it seems, more speed equals more distance travelled when you start braking plus more energy.

There's literally nothing wrong with driving 90 mph on the interstate.

After driving across the US and Canada I can say this.

USA: bigger roads, more straight, but more delapidated. i go 10-20 over in ideal conditions with no problems, slower on corners.

Canada (trans (although thats demeaning) Canada highway): BCers are fine mostly, Albertans are fine unless they're in a pickup then they speed like idiots getting 5 mpg, Saskers speed everywhere all the time 130 in 110 is normal for them - they also have no speed limit signs at all, manitoba is boring but fine - winnipeg roads look like ppl dont pay taxes, Ontarioites are fucking morons, 20-30 over at night in the rain, follow right on my bumper, hope you fucking asswipes all die out.

The speeding laws are very harsh here. You can have your car confiscated and even go to jail.

I don't care though, I always go to Germany for speeding (30minutes to the border), their speeding laws are a joke, I'd consider it more like a tip for the police.

Got pulled over doing 80 in 65 zone the other day. Cop did me a "favor" by writing the ticket out for 79 MPH which was "the slowest he clocked me at". Thanks.

Plan on either going to court or writing a letter pleading no contest. I've never had a speeding ticket in the 13 years that I've been licensed to drive. I don't know if the court cares, but I don't have a job, so the ticket would be a huge financial burden on me. Oh well. My state does have a "basic speed rule", but the stretch of I-5 that I was on had a SPEED LIMIT sign, not just SPEED.

I'm probably fucked. I almost asked the cop if he had anything better to do. He never even asked me why I was speeding. Not that it matters, but I had been driving for almost 20 hours at this point and was just trying to make it home before the sun came up.

You're a piece of garbage that endangers the life of others and burdens the courts with your degeneracy.

Do society a favour and commit suicide.

Uh huh. It's me burdening the courts, not the other way around. I have never once been in an accident and drove professionally for some time, so I find your comment about me endangering others to be quite an embellishment!

speedlimits on highways are for faggotcountries only!

Shut the fuck up you pussified nu-male. All speed limits are arbitrary numbers and the ones in America are well known to be below the 85th percentile, which is what speed limits should be set at if you absolutely must have one. America has straight empty highways with fucking 105 km/h speed limits when crowded Europe mostly has 120-130.

You can't stop as fast as others if something happens.

>b-but nothing has happened yet

Don't worry jackass, you'll kill someone soon enough. Best we can hope is that it'll just be yourself.

Is that why the majority of the German Autobahn is limited?

I usually go 10 under just to piss everyone off.

> arbitrary.
> assuming road science doesnt exist.

Just because your brain is too small to understand momentum and stopping distance doesnt mean others should be at risk from your stupidity.

>he thinks I ride people's asses on the road

Yeah, no. You can go fast, you just have to do it safely. Stopping distance increases with speed; you do the math. Here is a neat trick though for when some asshole is on your tail: just use your windshield washer. The spray will make them back off.

youtu.be/9S75Rfva9O8

Driving laws make sense in populated areas.

Not roads heading to industrial complexes far away from Towns/cities.

>some number that is different in every country and even state and rounded to the nearest 10 km/h or mph
>I must follow this number exactly because I can't think or judge situations for myself!

Again, 85th percentile is the only thing you need. That's science for you.

I usually tap my brakes.

>You can go fast, you just have to do it safely.
Indeed. Fast defensive driving is best driving.

>Here is a neat trick though for when some asshole is on your tail:
Brake hard but cautiously. If the fucker rear-ends you, he's automatically at fault unless you're intoxicated. Which you should never be behind the wheel.
Brace yourself in case he hits, get free monies from his insurance company.

Reasons why your country is a shithole for 800 Alex.

lmao says the leaflet, nice rebuttal tho fagtron

Holy shit Batman, a topic on which I am an expert! I am a lawyer in Texas that has taken over 200 speeding ticket cases to trial

ITT ask me anything

Adolf Hitler set the speed limit at 88 k/h.

What's the fastest someone's gone?

I've done 145 on back roads.

Lol, I think 120 mph in a 60

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xd im still here friend

speed limits are there for a reason, you haven't put enough thought into their purpose.

a vehicle may perform just fine at 80-100mph, however your brain is incapable of making that kind of split decision judgment. at those speeds or higher. your life, as well as other motorists lives are at hands; before you say "lolhurer durr desert road no wun around" if you blow a tire and wreck out, some poor sob will have to take care of your paraplegic vegetative ass for the rest of their lives. the posted speed limits are there for a good fucking reason.

Speeding isn't the issue. Aggressive driving is. I can easily drive 100mph, safely, on road trips. It's not dangerous until you come up on other people who change lanes without signalling and don't give enough car lengths of space in traffic.

I've seen a line of cars going 80mph with only about 10 feet of space or less between each car. That is probably the most dangerous thing to do. Any slight mistake with fuck you, right in the pussy.

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what's your point

if i pay taxes to keep roads maintained
id want to use those roads
if im using those roads id want to be safe driving on them
thus politicians get elected that have peoples safety in mind and pass speed limit resolutions

They are simply a means for local governments to make money. I'll speed regularly at the hazard of now and again (every half decade or so, by my luck) getting pulled over and (if I can't talk my way out of it, which happens half the time) having to support a level of government I'd prefer to anyway. Those "Libertarians" who sperg over getting collared in violation of the law blows my mind. Is not the locality that level of government you have most trust in, being that it's closest to and thus most responsive to the people?

I'd figure those you were trying to piss off, being other Australians, might see yours as a challenge to see who could better piss everybody else off and end up going 10 more lower than you.

You wreck at 120 in a road car, you'll probably be dead. Road-legal cars aren't made to crash at speeds over 45mph, which is why every one of them fails a crash test at 50+ mph. There's too much kinetic energy.

speeding is pointlessly dangerous. you save maybe a tenth of the time getting to your destination while increasing the chance of an accident dramatically.

It's not about getting there quickly. It's about the rush. Going fast is fun. Acceleration is better, mind you. Going 0-45 in 2-4 seconds feels better than speeding. Hard braking is fun too. But it tears up your brakes too much to do often.

I don't give a shit about highway speeds (besides faggots who are moving way to fast in comparison to the flow of traffic/are weaving in and out like speed racer).

The real pieces of shit are guys who go fast in 15-35mph zones.

Huge difference in going 85 in a 65 and 55 in a 35.

Most accidents are caused by people going too slow, not too fast.

HE WUZ A GOOD BOY
HE DIDN'T DO NUFFIN
HE WAS JUZ GOIN UNDER THE EIGHTY-FIFF PERCENTILE

nigga then go to a racetrack or find a buddy with some private land.

I'm not slow and stupid like most people, I'm actually smart and fast with quick reactions, great reflexes.

I don't need to drive the speed that is safe for slow, stupid people.

Top notch satire.

Kill yourself if you're serious though.

Forcing everybody to pass you is what's going to cause a fucking accident, retard.

You need to keep up with traffic or get the fuck off the road. You're the worst kind of hazardous driver: the kind that thinks they're doing nothing wrong.

That's real smart of you friend, you'll be the smartest motherfucker in the cemetary.

>nigga then go to a racetrac
Costs money, too many rules(helmets required, etc), and other nonsense. I pay taxes for the roads, I'll use them as I please. That's how this works.

>or find a buddy with some private land
My family has plenty of it, but no paved surfaces. Doing 60+ on a curvy dirt road is a ball of laughs however, if you're crazy like me.
I know what rally drivers love about their sport.

Ari Vatanen is hard core.

Great illustration of how liberal reasoning and autonomous cars do not work in the real world. A great plan, composed in advance, is worthless as soon as its presuppositions are outdated.

IT'S DIFFERENT FOR EVERY VEHICLE, YOU FUCKING TARD!!!! FUCK YOU!!!

>Fun things cost money
>I'm going to have free fun at the expense of other people's safety and security
You do realise what you sound like, right?

>your brain is incapable of making that kind of split decision judgment.

That's funny, nobody ever tested my reaction time.

Ever.

Ever.

Ever.

You cunt cocksucker. Go fuck yourself, you slow stupid fuck. Not everybody's as physically and mentally retarded as you. YOU should follow the speed limit. I don't need to.

Omg I can't wait for you to crash you piece of Shit

Yes to both

People were fine b4 seatbelts and speeding laws. But to be fair seatbelt helped save my life.

I don't mind people speeding unless it's ridiculous fucking speeds

What I can't stand is faggots going under the speed limit
>On a two lane street so I can't pass them
>Trapped behind some faggot who's clearly unsure where the fuck they are going, crusing between 10-15 miles below the speed limit
>They ignore honking
>When they finally take a turn they take it as slow as they possibly fucking can

Only thing that gets me more pissed is this "every lane is the bike lane" bullshit they've been enforcing here in south california. There was some fucking kid slowing an entire lane down because he's biking in the middle of a 35-40 mph lane

Gay people don't "get" how straight guys "sperg out" about getting fucked in the ass.

You're so used to the rape you actually look down on those who so much as DISLIKE it?

>at the expense of other people's safety and security
I always make sure to minimize risk to others.
In fact, I'm far more at risk from others(who in this country generally don't know how to properly operate motor vehicles) than I pose.

I've had so many people nearly wreck into me while I obeyed road laws, and yet I've never done the same to other drivers. My father made damn sure I knew how to handle heavy machinery before letting me out onto the highway. I knew how to recover ice skids before most people even get a learner's permit. Not that I need that skill down here in Florida. I take driving as seriously as I take wielding a gun.

PS: Drivers here are ASS.

I'm alright with speed limits, but when new speed limit laws are passed to lower them, then that's fucking terrible.

>Go to Nevada (Carson City)
>Speed limits are about 25-30 average on streets that should be 35-40
>Find out that old people in the town complained about "Dem young punks drivin' too fast!"
>Could have easily gotten to work every day in 5 minutes or less on a 40-average limit with no problems
>Shitty speed limit makes it take about 15 minutes just to go a couple miles
>Cop radar everywhere

>Back in California
>Speed traps all over the place
>Highway patrol hiding behind the sides of overpasses along highways to snag people unexpectedly (borderline entrapment)
>Absolute worst along state borders.

The only reason speeding doesn't save more time is because of the MULTITUDINOUS ARMIES OF ABSOLUTE HUMAN GARBAGE, LIKE YOURSELF, WHO DON'T KNOW HOW TO

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DOWN THE FUCKING

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