SPEEDERS! IAM SICK AND TIRE OF HAVEING THESE ASS HOLES ON MY TAIL.THESE ARE THE SAME PEOPLE THE BITCH ABOUT PEOPLE DRINKING TO MUCH.THE PATROLS DO A PISS POOR JOB WHEN IT COMES TO KEEPING OUR HIGHWAYS SAFE.IF THEY WOULD GET THEIR LAZY ASSES OUT AND BUST THE SPEEDERS AND ROADRAGERS OUR HIGHWAYS WOULD BE 100 PERCENT SAFER.ALL THEY WANT ARE THE BIG DUI DOLLARS.OUR HIGHWAYS ARE VERY DANGEROUS NOT JUST BECAUSE OF DUI, BUT BECAUSE PATORLS DONT ENFORCE SPEEDING, ETC.
The righteous and the reckless
· By: Brent Kreud
· Date: 2005-03-28
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On the phone-in show the topic is speeding. There's a cop on the panel, and also a former cop who has a business getting people off the hook when they're caught.
The guy on the phone says he "never speeds." It turns out that's not quite true. He has his own definition of speeding. He just doesn't like it when he's in the middle lane on a three-lane highway, doing what he feels is a reasonable speed (just a little over the limit) and he's being pressured to go faster by traffic around him.
Now the cop on the panel is in an awkward position. He probably wants to tell the guy on the phone he should go with the flow, even if that means a bit more over the speed limit than he wants to, but that's a difficult area for a cop to get into.
The cop hems and haws a bit and then allows that the speed of traffic is the safest speed. The guy on the phone wants more enforcement. The cop says they're too busy investigating the crashes that result from too much speeding.
Next on the line is a lady who wants strict enforcement everywhere by photo radar camera. Now there's a hot potato of a topic. It's hard to explain to someone with an authoritarian streak that life doesn't work like that. There's always give and take in the law. There's always a gray area that's open to discretion.
Total enforcement of rules will bring any system down. On the other hand, if enforcement gets too slack you can get "behavioral sink." Drivers make up their own rules and the most reckless drag others down to their own level.
The callers have the usual gripes: more enforcement, slower traffic keep right, driving slower than the speed of traffic in the fast lane, and so on. The common denominator is that there doesn't seem to be a common denominator--lots of points of view, but no firm ground. Drivers are confused about what's expected of them and what they should expect.
As the phone-in show progressed there was also a hint of another problem. A little leeway in enforcing the law may lubricate the flow of traffic and make life easier on the roads, but if there's too much of a gap between laws and reality the whole system begins to come apart at the seams.
- Informal vs. formal traffic laws
- Is tough enforcement the best way to improve traffic safety?
- External controls for speeding drivers?
- Drivers.com on speeding
Comments
joe, on Tuesday, 17. October 2006 at 08:56 AM
OK, on Thursday, 09. November 2006 at 02:17 PM
THEN GET A FASTER CAR STUPID. SPEEDING IS GOOD. YOU HAVE FUN WHEN YOU DRIVE . FALLING ASLEEP IS BAD.
Benny, on Thursday, 16. November 2006 at 11:21 PM
To OK and Joe
Using all caps while writing a message is like shouting in a conversation. I suggest you both click on the link above "formal Vs Informal rules." You will learn something about speeding!
Jeremy, on Thursday, 15. February 2007 at 09:35 PM
Speeding is bad. The worthless police forces we have in the U.S. aren't doing a very good job when thye don't set a very good example for the younger people. QUIT BREAKING THE LAW. SPEEDERS NEED TO BE STOPPED Forever and make the roads safe.
Tim, on Friday, 23. March 2007 at 11:08 AM
I agree. We should stop speeding, by increasing the maximum speed limmit. 55 cmon we are not driving UGO's.
If you are not a cop do not try to inforce the speed limmit. If I'm doing 80 and your in the fast lane doing 55 I have to find a way around you. And your making people manuver unnecessarely. Please move out of the way in to the slow lane where defencive drivers belong.
P.S. If your driving on a two lane road(slowly) next to another(slow)car. please move to the right lane and ither follow or lead the other car. If not you may experience such things as honking, tailgating, inapropriate gestures and language, as well as physical treats or injury(Not from me I'm peacefull).
Irv, on Wednesday, 11. April 2007 at 09:31 AM
Actually isn't the farthest lane to the left usually the "passing" lane. Since when did people become convinced it was the fast lane? And God forbid that I need to pass someone doing 125kph, while I'm going 135kph and someone doing 145kph (usually in a vehicle with a high center of gravity, piss-poor traction and crackberry user at the wheel) decides to tailgate until I complete my maneuver.
One day, my rented car is going to have to stop suddenly to avoid that "squirrel" in the road.
Kenny, on Wednesday, 11. April 2007 at 11:40 AM
The cops should concentrate on drivers going much faster than the traffic around them for example doing 80 mph when traff in next lane is only 60, or even doing 40 mph when the next lane is only 20. Its the difference in speed that causes the most problems
Ex-Speeder, on Wednesday, 16. May 2007 at 11:04 PM
On a six lane (3 each way) highway, who cares about speed - they can handle cars going 200-250kmh easily as I learned during my days in Germany. If people keep right, don't tailgate and don't pass on the right, the traffic will move nice and smoothly.
Nothing is more annoying then those in the middle lane doing 105kmh in a 100km zone - its a passing lane too (at least in Canada).
When I drove 140kmh everywhere, they were damn annoying ... as I sat in the left passing everyone ... and now that I'm driving 110kmh because I'm scared as hell of getting one more speeding ticket ... they annoy me even more.
Driving slow sucks, I'm going to fall asleep and crash someday soon.
Lil, on Thursday, 07. June 2007 at 09:32 AM
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whinningliberals.com
Demon, on Wednesday, 13. June 2007 at 10:04 AM
SPEEDING ROCKS, out my way bitches
Pat, on Friday, 29. June 2007 at 02:31 PM
Speeding is my right, just as others think that going slow in the left lane is theirs
Joe, on Saturday, 15. December 2007 at 05:43 PM
speeding's fine as long as you dont endanger other
mike mike, on Thursday, 10. January 2008 at 01:24 PM
all of u are very stupid what a bunch of losers lol supa funny
