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Description: 3 panel comic of someone interacting with a cop during traffic stop
Conversation: Cop says “Do you know why I stopped you?” Driver responds “Because you’re a class traitor?” Cop is too stunned to speak.
I’m also a fan of the 30 Rock punchline: “Because you got straight C’s in high school?”
Probably misquoting, been quite a few years since I watched it.
Like the cop would even understand that statement
Then the cop shot him for resisting arrest. The end.
The cop isn’t stunned, he’s just trying to understand what was said.
For real though, why can’t people just drive at the speed limit?
The safest speed to drive is the speed of traffic, because the thing that’s most likely to cause accidents is changing lanes or speed. Traffic is almost always moving faster than the speed limit, so the speed limit actually reduces safety. If they were designed based on the speed people feel comfortable driving then they’d be reasonable and safe, but that’s not how they were decided. Speed limits are bad.
The reason traffic moves at above the speed limit is that people see the speed limit and go slightly above it because it feels fine.
Speed limits are absolutely necessary in residential areas, and still a good thing on highways. High speeds are insanely fuel inefficient and they do also endanger people more.
My country has been debating putting a speed limit on highways that previously didn’t have one so I’ve heard quite a lot about this topic.
Sure, residential areas need them low, and highways need them but they should be based on data. The ones in the US are totally made up, and people go faster than them because they’re too low. They should be set to the speed people feel comfortable going.
Also, changing speed is more inefficient than going fast. As long as things are flowing well, it’s going to be better than traffic with speed fluctuations because some people are going slowly. The limit should be the speed of traffic.
Traffic is almost always moving faster than the speed limit
So again, why are people seemingly unable to follow the speed limits?
Because the speed limit was set arbitrarily low. It should be set by data, or even preferably be dynamic. If the speed limit is there to keep people safe (that’s supposed to be the reason, though it’s often to raise money through tickets), then it should not be set by arbitrary guesses. It’s not the fault of drivers. It’s the fault of law makers.
Because literally everything is made to pressure you, every demand is just slightly more than what you can achieve if you follow all the rules. By design.
Speeding is just a simple easy way for them to remind you. To teach you that youre prey.
Because I don’t want too. Without taking the time to dig up resources John Oliver put it best that speed limits were decided on not by science or safety standards but what appears to be random guessing.
That said I follow rules, 10 over on low traffic interstate and highways, 5 over on low traffic main roads, speed limit everywhere else.
And pretty sure I read outside of impaired or distracted driving the thing that kills or injures most drivers is trying to make the yellow, not speed.
On track I’ve been up to 156, but I run out of road in my car and need to break at the end of the straight. 5th, 6th and 7th are all overdrive gears in my car and the intense acceleration transitions to normal car levels over 140mph sadly.
I am considering selling it and getting a faster one next year.
