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Originally Posted by REDVAN
Here come the barbs. Ouch.
I'm not saying I am smarter, I am just saying that I have never been given a suitable explanation as to how speed limits are set. The best I've gotten is "people smarter than you set them."
To be fair, I don't pretend to be a genius. But I think I can understand a logical scientific reason. I would like it explained to me.
And it may in fact be true that I do know better than people who went to school for 4 years studying roads. That's because they might take the train to work and never drive, so they don't understand reality. Just because someone is educated doesn't make them smart.
Side note: Yes I think he should be allowed to do that. If he thinks the road is able to handle a vehicle going that speed, he can handle the vehicle at that speed, and the vehicle is safe going that speed, then why should he not?
For me, speeding has been safer than following and staying in a row. It has gotten me to where I need to go faster. It has saved me time, and my time is valuable as far as I am concerned. I'm sure I'm going to take some heat for this but... if I think my time is worth more to me than someone else's time is worth to me, so if I speed and get somewhere 2 minutes faster, and then it takes them 10 seconds longer to get where they are going, I could care less.
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Okay, most of that makes a little bit of sense. At least you admit it's impatience more than anything. Which is obviously the reason just about everyone speeds. It just bugs me when people claim otherwise.
However, I kind of doubt that just because you drive on roads you know more about then than the guys who design them.
You drive on a lot of bridges, care to try your hand at designing a few of those?
You fill your car with gas, want to give designing a refinery process a try?
The problem with people thinking they know better than the people that do these things is that they don't know what they don't know.
Sure they build in a safety factor because people are always going to speed, but that only works to a point and when people push it that's when things go wrong. Is that 20 over the limit going to get you killed on the #2? No of course not, but what about the guy with the Ferrari who decides he's safe to go 220? He's no different than you, but chances are at some point he's gonna run into trouble.