RE: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] Offtopic - speeding now

[Mike Miller <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

On Wed, 3 Dec 2003, Ross, Matthew wrote:

> Speeding tickets aren't just for revenue though, speeding is dangerous.
> The faster you go, the more effect your wheel angle has to how quickly
> you go off course. This is why it seems "harder" to steer at high speed.
> Yes, 90% of the time you can handle going 20 over the speed limit, but a
> single slip-up would be fatal at 90mph.

Sure, but sometimes you'll be on a straight divided road with three lanes
in each direction, nice smooth concrete, and the speed limit is 30 mph.
You go 45 and get a ticket -- they just sit there waiting for you.

I got one for going 79 in a 70.  I didn't think they did that!

Another thing -- the same road in different states would have different
speed limits.  So my 79 was on I-90 in Minnesota, but if I'd been in South
Dakota, the speed limit would have been 75 and I'd have been over by only
4 mph.

To go 20 mph over the limit might *sound* dangerous.  But an ordinary
highway in an unpopulated area will sometimes have a speed limit of 55 and
sometimes 75 depending on the jurisdiction.  Going 20 over in the 75 would
be much more dangerous than going 20 over in the 55.  "Speeding" is a
function of two things:  Your speed and their law.  And sometimes the law
is set up just to make money for the community (the so-called "speed
trap").

Mike
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