Speed Limits Life

Advantages: Can save lives
Disadvantages: Causes more pollution

...Speed limits are something that probably most drivers consider as having to be adhered to by everyone except himself or herself. It would certainly seem so judging by the way drivers behave on our roads. As a society we have laws to govern the way that we behave towards each other and they are for the general benefit of ALL. It would be impossible to run a society otherwise, without descending into anarchy. So if we have a law that limits the speed of traffic on a road then that is that. Break the law and risk prosecution for doing so. Some people will argue that because of the inaccuracy of speedometers in cars and lorries and the parallax error that can occur when viewing a speedometer, there should be some leeway about enforcing the speed limits. These factors could mean that although you think you are doing 30 mph you are in...

jimbuck 30.01.2001 · Read review
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Review of Urban Speed Limits

Speed Doesnt Kill

Advantages: A reasonable limit for all
Disadvantages: Unfair to the genuinely good driver

...Everybody keeps on telling me that speed kills, but it doesn’t. People off on holiday to the great blue yonder travel at over five hundred miles per hour in the big jets and it doesn’t kill them. Fighter pilots chase each other all over the skies at mach 2 and it doesn’t kill them. If you jumped off the tallest building in the world you would hurtle downwards and reach speeds of over one hundred miles per hour but the being killed bit wouldn’t happen until you reached the road below and stopped travelling. I’m not being pedantic or even facetious; I’m just trying to point out that it isn’t the actual speed that kills you but the sudden and instant deceleration that does all the damage. Now relate this to motorway speed limits and you should realise that it isn’t the speed that causes...

jimbuck 04.02.2001 · Read review
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Review of Motorway Speed Limits

NO MOTORWAY SPEED LIMITS

Advantages: getting rid of congestion
Disadvantages: ok at first you'd get the usual jokers racing

...I think they should do away with motorway speed limits except for extreme weather conditions and for heavy goods veicheles. To educate the people the government should introduce a separte driving test for motorway driving as it is not part of the current driving test and motorway lessons are optional. You should need a test pass to drive on the motorways. The autobahns in germany have no limits and have less accidents. Congestion would be made obselete under my proposals and because if the limits were reduced congestion would build up causing more polution whereas my idea would have every car running optimaly. Ever been on a deserted motorway at about 3 in the morning just wishing you were home, in a car that wouldnt break sweat at 130? email me if you agree Id appriciate some feed back....

zef 12.08.2000 · Read review
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Speed limits

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...Who thinks that the motorway speed limit should be increased. From 70mph to 90mph tops. Reason why the general rule of thumb is before you get caught you have to be doing 10% over the speed limit plus 2mph so on a motorway that is going to work out at 79mph before a speed camera thinks about getting you (probably have just jinks myself). Source http://www.ukspeedtraps.co.uk/frames.htm I feel that if the speed limit was increased to either 80 or 90 mph then if you go over then you get caught no tolerance. I think that this should only apply to motorways. Because cars are getting safer and everyone speeds, I generally cruise about 75mph and I'm generally be overtaken all the time. What about you?...

stevejenks 19.07.2000 · Read review
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Motorway Speed Limits

Advantages: not applicable
Disadvantages: not applicable

...I heard on the radio yesterday that the government are going to REDUCE motorway speed limits to 50 mph. Do you think it is a good idea? Because I don't...and here's why 1) Currently the limit is 70mph and most drivers do 80+ mph. 2) Lorries are currently restricted to 55mph and coaches to 65mph (I think I'm right here, but it could be 50 and 60 respectively). so... if the limit was made to 50mph, vehicles of all types would (supposedly) be travelling at 50mph. Can you imagine following the same lorry for 3 hrs or whatever on a motorway at 50mph? what is the point of motorways if they are no quicker (if you can only do 50 on the motorway then you may as well take the A-roads or dual carriageways instead where you can do either 40 or 60 - and it wouldn't be as boring as the motorways!). fine but this would lead to...

rog2054 12.07.2000 · Read review
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Speed Kills - But So Does Stupidity

Advantages: See opinion
Disadvantages: See opinion

...Speed Kills !! ~ ~ So say the advertising posters for the “Safer Driving” campaigns, and, off course, they are absolutely correct. Speed does in fact kill, but there again, so do many other things. ~ ~ The question that is at issue here is not if speed kills. We all know that you have much more chance of walking away from a shunt at 30mph than you have at 80mph. That’s only common sense. What is being asked is if the present speed limit of 70mph at present in force on our motorways (yes, it applies in Ireland too) is a realistic one, and if it saves lives by preventing accidents. ~ ~ My own immediate gut reaction is that the limit is not realistic given the highly maintained cars and vehicles that are the norm in today’s society. Anyone who drives on a motorway on a fairly regular basis knows that...

the_mad_cabbie 29.12.2000 (26.08.2001) · Read review
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SPEED and STUPIDITY - Harmless or Armless

Advantages: Ideally, helps in maintaining safe driving conditions
Disadvantages: Realistically, often ignored

...~ For my 100th review, I wanted to write about something I have very strong views on. An emotive subject, one of which has had a succession of extremely high quality, yet varied opinions previously submitted to it, Motorway Speed Limits ~ A friend of mine never speeds! This may seem an unusually rash statement for an opening line, but it’s true. Owner of a pretty modern fourwheel drive vehicle, I can assure you he never speeds. All the time he has been in possession of this vehicle, he has never exceded any speed limit, infact he never comes close.....more rash statements? But, I can support myself in this matter. It’s pretty simple really. His fourwheel drive doesn’t go that fast! I suppose I should explain. You probably presumed my friend’s fourwheel drive to be a car? Well no, it’s a wheelchair...

wiggglypufff 28.01.2001 · Read review
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Speed limits saves lives

Advantages: Make people think about their speed
Disadvantages: Bad publicity

..."Sorry I was late for work", "I'm a government official/a doctor", "I didn't realise it was a 30mph zone", "He came from nowhere" etc.. These are all excuses/reasons that I have heard in my year or so while working as a police officer when people have been found speeding or, more seriously, involved in an accident. I work in one small part of a built up area and yet there are several accidents on the roads every day that require police attendance. Thanks to a very effective advertising campaign and a change in social attitudes the amount of drink drivers on the roads is falling rapidly. However, I am constantly amazed at the amount of drivers out there who are totally anti drink driving, but who will merrily break the speed limit on almost a daily basis. Speed limits and traffic calming measures, although annoying, are there...

clemenza 24.06.2002 · Read review
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Excessive speed or Just Bad Driving

Advantages: Encourages sensiable speeds
Disadvantages: Speed is not the only problem

...As a relatively new driver (two years experience), I feel that I should defend those who you criticise as not having the experience to drive on the motorway. I have driven hundreds of miles on motorways, (normally with my dad as a passenger ) mostly towing and feel that people hogging a lane has more serious repercussions than people travelling at speeds that are safe for the conditions. I am not condoning speeding, (travelling above state speed limits) and realise that excessive speed can be a contributory factor in accidents but it is not the only factor. When travelling on an empty motorway the 70-mph speed limit seems ridiculously slow but when travelling in inclement weather conditions 40 mph can be too fast. The danger comes when you have too broad a spectrum of speeds being used at the same time. With vehicles...

coppit 11.03.2001 · Read review
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Review of Motorway Speed Limits

So you want Speed

Advantages: Saves lives
Disadvantages: Death on the roads. Driving disqualification or worse.

...The issue of speeding and the speed limits set on our roads is one of great debate. Each one of us will have our own opinions of the issues that it raises, the rights and wrongs, the whys and wherefores. But how many of us have seen the effects of speed first hand. I have. For 20 years I was a police officer, part of that time was spent patrolling our roads as a traffic cop (at this point I feel my circle of trust already diminishing and read rates dropping). Seriously though I have seen the effects that excess speed can have both in urban and rural areas. Each of us who drive probably feel we are the safest driver on the road, but many drivers belief in their own abilities is often misguided, misplaced or in some cases totally unsafe. The vast majority of drivers do not have a real appreciation of speed, the speed others are...

jonwhite 15.02.2001 · Read review
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