[NefCanuck]

P-51,Oct 4 2007, 08: Wrote:

NefCanuck,Sep 29 2007, 03:16 AM Wrote:Doing 150km/h on a 400 series highway is insanity anyways.

Even if the road is clear enough ahead, conditions can and do fluctuate rapidly enough that its a reckless thing to do.

Doing 50 over on any other type of road? C'mere so I can whack you over the head with my cane for being a brain dead MORON!

NefCanuck
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Sometimes I wonder if some of you guys have ever left the GTA. The world doesn't end at Oshawa. I've been up to 220 before, with no issue whatsoever. Not that I think it's terribly safe or smart. But I wasn't endangering anybody else but myself.

The speed limit outside of city limits should be raised to 120, and rigorously enforced starting at 130. I fall asleep cruising at 115 outside city limits.

I'm more worried about my commute, along Hwy2. Speed limit is 80, I set the cruise at 95-98 like most people. What if my speedo is a little slow, actually doing 101. I get into Grafton, speed limit drops to 50... oops, I'm a little slow clicking off the cruise (was too busy actually looking for traffic, pedestrians, etc) Charged with street racing! That's retarded.

And the fact is, vigorous enforcement of excessively slow speed limits does not make the roads safer. It results in people not being serious about driving, and doing other distracting things. Talking on the phone, playing with the radio, etc. The facts are the facts. Speed doesn't kill. Bad drivers do.
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Here's the problem, for every driver that can potentially handle excessive speed (Both in terms of driver ability and vehicle ability which is an important distiction) there are drivers that can't whether it be because they don't have the skills or their car is a POS.

Now, would stricter licensing and stricter monitoring of vehicle conditions help deal with this issue? Absolutely, no question about it, heck, I'd be in favour of every two years requiring cars to be recerftied as being road worthy (and I'm not talking Drive Scam or the ridculously simple to pass Safety Standards Certificate but a real mechanical fitness test)

BUT

You're still left with a basic physics problem:

Force = Mass * Acceleration

and frankly that's the underlying issue... even if you drive a Volvo, fior example and can walk away from driving into something at 200+ km/h unharmed. Who's to say that what you hit is that lucky? :ph34r:

NefCanuck