I am sure you're right about how bad people will allow their cars to
deteriorate and still drive them but I think we need to put the pressure
on our citizens to grow up and maintain their cars if they want to
drive at the speeds others find acceptable. IMO it's like the Nanny
state run amok that pervades our lives in so many ways.
BTW, a few years ago Road & Track magazine ran a test (or at least wrote
about one conducted at a university) where people were put in cars with
the speedo covered up & allowed to drive for X distance to see what
speed they would feel most comfortable driving. After they acclimated
to their speed, the majority of people drove at 100mph +/- 10mph. That
impressed me and I have remembered it for more than 40 years. I think
it was an article about radar and how it was used by police.
Anyway, there have been suggestions in the past for people to have
colored license plates or other markings to indicate their level of
driving ability & experience - and could also be used to indicate
drivers (or their cars) that had been convicted of driving
drunk/high/texting,
And yes I realize that would escalate the Nanny state I am so much
against. But who's listening to me? ;-)
LarryT
91 300D
78 240D
On 12/1/2014 5:05 PM, Randy Bennell via Mercedes wrote:
The thing that scares me about this is the fact that many folks do not
maintain their cars well. If one is going to run that fast, then it is
important to have a vehicle with decent tires and to maintain the
brakes, suspension etc.
It is amazing how often one sees vehicles on the streets that have
suffered broken ball joints etc. Some people will literally drive
until the wheels fall off.
Having said that, however, I will admit to travelling pretty fast
sometimes. We went to Grand Forks ND a week ago Saturday and on the
way back were sometimes running 90 mph. The road is so straight and
smooth and there is so little traffic that one must either set the
cruise control of pay pretty strict attention to the speedo. After a
while, it feels like one is just crawling along and then one discovers
that one has increased the speed from 75 mph to 90 mph.
I think I could pretty readily run that road at 100 mph when the
pavement was bare and this is in a pickup truck. Imagine what I could
do with a fast car
Randy
On 01/12/2014 2:42 PM, Andrew Strasfogel via Mercedes wrote:
If you cruise at 70 better watch your rear view mirror...
HELENA – Four state lawmakers are drafting bills for next year’s
legislative session that would raise the daytime speed limit on Montana
interstate highways from 75 to 80 and possibly as high as 85 mph.
State Rep. Mike Miller, R-Helmville, and state Rep.-elect Art Wittich,
R-Bozeman, both said Utah, Wyoming and Idaho all have raised their speed
limits above 75 and they haven’t seen any problems as a result.
“I just think our roads are engineered well and technology is such we
can
drive those roads safely,” Wittich said.
Montanans want to be able to drive faster, he said, and should have the
freedom to do so.
Sens. Scott Sales, R-Bozeman, and Jonathan Windy Boy, D-Box Elder,
also are
backing speed-limit bills.
Montana Highway Patrol Col. Tom Butler declined to comment on the bills
until he has a chance to see them, but he told the Missoulian that
driving
faster reduces reaction time and makes stopping more difficult.
“Our overall goal is to keep everyone in one piece and get them home
safe,”
Butler said. “Most crashes are a whole lot of little things that come
together and become one big thing.”
Windy Boy said he travels around the country to dance at Native American
powwows and has driven in states with 80 mph speed limits.
“As big a state as Montana is, for the most part, the traffic is pretty
sparse,” he said. “Once in a while it helps to get from Point A to
Point B
a little quicker.”
Sales said he spent seven months working in the Bakken oil patch,
driving
back and forth to Bozeman regularly.
“If I could drive 85 mph on the interstate, it would save an hour,”
Sales
said.
He said the speed limit in his bill is negotiable. “Eighty-five would be
fine with me,” he said.
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