Pete317 wrote:
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How is this to be policed so it isn't abused by aggressive, selfish people who don't care about the consequences of their actions on others?
You'll always get people who'll abuse any system. Should we fine you from having a pint at your local just because there are a few individuals who abuse alcohol and cause mayhem?
If people drink more than 10 pints, and we find that the likelihood of them committing a public order offence when in public is much larger after 10 pints than after 1 pint, then they are arrested for being 'drunk and disorderly' in public. i.e. If I was out in public and drunk, I would act normally and not ruin other people's lives, so would most likely not be arrested, even though I was drunk.
"You'll always get people who'll abuse the system". Yes, how true. Many of them are on this forum...
Why do you find it necessary to speed? Why do you feel so uncomfortable in a car travelling at the speed limit?
I seriously want to know.
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I've never sped in my life. I don't need to. I actually enjoy driving. I keep right on the speed limit, if road conditions allow.
And how do you know what speed conditions allow? Are you a highly trained traffic engineer?
I know what speed conditions allow because I look at road signs...
And I don't find it necessary to drive really quickly all the time...
Why do you?
Try asking yourself that question, because there's SOMETHING WRONG WITH YOU.
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Don't the planners know a little bit more about each individual road than I do? Like what other roads join it, the gradient, the condition of the surface, the number of accidents that have occurred there, etc.? Why would each invididual be capable of making a better decision on the maximum speed than highly trained, qualified planners with all the information above to hand?
Yeah, right! We have thousands of miles of roads in urban areas, with wildly varying surfaces, camber, linearity, layout of junctions, spread of hazards etc etc, but they all have the self-same 30mph limit. And, equally, thousands of miles of motorway all with the same 70mph limit. And, even more ridiculously, thousands of miles of twisty single-lane country lanes, all with the same 60mph limit. All of those limits were set by an act of parliament, not by 'highly-trained, qualified planners' Incidentally, the 70mph motorway limit was imposed as a temporary measure, as a knee-jerk reaction to a number of accidents in thick fog. Three decades on, we're still stuck with the 'temporary' limit.
Oh, it was a 'knee-jerk reaction' to accidents in thick fog, not a SOLUTION to the problem of idiots ploughing into the back of the car in front?
We're not "stuck" with the temporary limit, I'm more than happy with it. Why aren't you?
I'll tell you why - because you're a nasty, aggressive, selfish person who would happily kill somebody with your car, just because you think YOU are more important than everybody else.
I bet when you go out for a drive today you'll be fuming as usual.
Kill yourself before you kill somebody else, if you hate your life so much.
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Tell me something, do you feel comfortable on a train hurtling through the countryside at 125mph+? Or 200mph+ on the continent? Why is that? And why is it necessary for trains to go so fast?
I don't feel comfortable on a train going at 125mph, and I think it might be a slightly different environment, n'est ce pas?
It isn't necessary for trains to go so fast. People need to get a life and plan their time better.
If the price of people going fast is 3,000 people a year being killed, plus hundreds of thousands of injuries, then it's too high a price to pay.
You don't want to look at these horrific figures because, as I've said before, all you speeders care about is yourselves.
When I get my cameras installed, I'll start posting up footage of 'Mr.Angry' from Basingstoke, zooming up behind me, speeding, fuming with rage and hatred, and overtaking dangerously. After you've seen the first five hundred, will you see what I'm getting at?