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From: buls@dataio.UUCP (Rick Buls)
Newsgroups: net.legal,net.auto
Subject: Re: Radar Surveillance
Message-ID: <800@dataio.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 5-Sep-85 12:34:49 EDT
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Posted: Thu Sep  5 12:34:49 1985
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Reply-To: buls@dataio.UUCP (Rick Buls
Organization: Data I/O Corp., Redmond WA
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Summary: 

In article <695@psivax.UUCP> friesen@psivax.UUCP (Stanley Friesen) writes:
>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 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)
>
	The fallacy with this is the assumption that there were speed limits
in all the states. :-)  Being from the great state of Montana, There were
No daytime speed limit when I learned to drive(pre 1974). So it was imposible
to exceed the limit on the highways. The state of Nevada had no limits either.
So I for one never exceeded the speed limit before 1974, My only ticket was
in 1974 for going 62 in a 55 zone. I was in Kansas. As for the 55, what was
a 7 hour drive back "home" is now a 11 hour marithon over a 4 lane deserted
mass of concrete and asphalt. I always think of all the gas the 55 is saving
when I'm in the traffic to and from work(going at 35 to dead stop). There is
more gas burned on a weekday morning from 6AM til 10AM in the same city of
Seattle than is burned all day in the whole state of Montana. And the drivers
here in Seattle would love it if they could speed up to 55.


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				Rick Buls (Data I/O; Redmond, Wa)
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