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From: friesen@psivax.UUCP (Stanley Friesen)
Newsgroups: net.legal,net.auto
Subject: Re: Radar Surveillance
Message-ID: <695@psivax.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 30-Aug-85 15:08:28 EDT
Article-I.D.: psivax.695
Posted: Fri Aug 30 15:08:28 1985
Date-Received: Thu, 5-Sep-85 07:14:58 EDT
References: <1081@homxa.UUCP> <4891@allegra.UUCP>
Reply-To: friesen@psivax.UUCP (Stanley Friesen)
Organization: Pacesetter Systems Inc., Sylmar, CA
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Summary: 

In article <393@scgvaxd.UUCP> chris@scgvaxd.UUCP (Chris Yoder) writes:
>
>     The main reason that I am opposed to the 55 speed limit is because 90% of
>the people that I know don't obey it (even those that say they do, get on
>the freeway and do at least 60).  I grew up driving under this totally
>arbitrary limit (it does not reflect the speed at which one can safely drive
>the road), and thus since the only safe way to drive on the freeway is to
>move along with the flow (I've yet to drive in a state where that is less
>than 60-65, and yes, I've driven in > 50% of the states) I become
>conditioned to exceeding the speed limit by 10 or so mph.  I also get the
>feeling that driving at these speeds is no great wrong because *everybody*
>does it!
>
	The fallacy with this is the assumption that people obeyed the
higher speed limits before the change! I am(just barely) old enough to
remember. Compliance was *no* *greater* under the old 70-75 mph speed
limit than it is now. People used to drive 80-85mph, the same ~10 mph
over that they drive now! Even my father, a very law abiding citizen,
regularly drove 5 miles over the limit, even when the limit was 75.
-- 

				Sarima (Stanley Friesen)

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