Wednesday, December 5th, 2007
Speed Limits Kill


I enjoy driving on the open highway. Warm air blowing over your well tanned arm as you cruise down an open road at 125Km/h is a great feeling. Or hauling ass on a flat straight country road, down a 3 lane highway, or an urban superhighway. All in all driving with confidence at speed is a great feeling.
I’ve long argued that the faster drivers are no more, and probably less, dangerous than the assholes who go 5 under the speed limit in the middle lane, and choose to pass at exactly 2 km/h faster than the car they are passing. I’ve also argued that speed limits are arbitrary and harmful. Harmful because they eat your life one hour at a time.
And hey, turns out I’m right. in 1995 the U.S. ended their idiotic 55Mph maximum, and traffic deaths dropped to record lows. In fact the lowest death rates are when their are no speed limits at all. on top of that a U.S. National Research Council panel pegged the cost of the 55-mph limit at about one billion person-hours per year.
That’s about 1500 entire lives eaten up sitting in the car per year!

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