Well everyone acts like we as cops go out and write tickets to pad our agencies budget and it's just not the case. The vast majority of the ticket prices go to the court and the state........not too the agency that is actually out there writing the tickets. So to me from the other side, the aurgument that it's just a revenue generator falls flat.
Ever seen these or something similar. Why do they exist?
I just drove through Indy. Is anyone at all aware that the speed limit on I-70 going through downtown is 55 (in one place 50)? I habitually set my cruise control equal to the speed limit, and apparently this has the effect of royally pissing off Indiana drivers. Not a single car, truck, or semi was going slower than 65, and many had to be approaching 75. We passed two cops, one sitting on the median with his radar gun out, and nobody made the slightest move to slow down. There's apparently no need, because he didn't bother going after anyone.
Libertarians like me like to argue that speed limits are pointless, and that as long as traffic is flowing smoothly the speed at which it is doing so is immaterial. For all practical purposes, Indy was just a perfect demonstration of this. So why have a speed limit at all? Nobody in Indiana seems to care what the signs say.
Well everyone acts like we as cops go out and write tickets to pad our agencies budget and it's just not the case. The vast majority of the ticket prices go to the court and the state........not too the agency that is actually out there writing the tickets. So to me from the other side, the aurgument that it's just a revenue generator falls flat.
Strengthen the requirements for drivers licenses, and we could likely do away with all the silly road laws.
I generally set my cruise equal to the speed limit and travel in the lane next to the far left. This keeps me out of the way of folks merging from the right and allows others to pass me on the left.
If you are in the far left lane and a car is behind you going faster, you should move over and let him go by.
I lived in Germany for several years, and in Germany, one of the worst things you can do is to drive too slowly for the lane you're in. Passing on the right is a big no no. If you are in any lane but the far right, and a car comes up behind you, you are to move over. This keeps cars not fast enough to travel in the far left lane (even to pass) from having to pass on the right to get around you.
I'll take the freedom approach too.
Were there speed limits? American cops are looking for any reason to write you a ticket and steal $300 from you, so until we get rid of these stupid speed limits, we have no right to complain about someone going 55 in the left lane.
I'll take the freedom approach. Anyone else with me?
We passed two cops, one sitting on the median with his radar gun out, and nobody made the slightest move to slow down. There's apparently no need, because he didn't bother going after anyone.
Well, I hope it's understood that this is what I'm after. I honestly feel like I'm endangering myself and others by doing the speed limit in situations like the one described, but that's not a defense if I'm the one randomly selected to be the State's next meal. There's no room in my budget for a $300 ticket just because I wanted to keep up with traffic and coexist peacefully and safely with my fellow drivers.
I agree with smoking 357 that most speed limits are not for safety but for revenue generation, also known as taxes.
Yeah, those moms in minivans are all sorts of trouble.I was doing 75 heading into indy last week and was getting dirty looks from minivan soccer moms flying by me.