Path: utzoo!lsuc!ncrcan!moegate!soley
From: soley@moegate.UUCP (Norman S. Soley)
Newsgroups: ont.general
Subject: Re: Radar Detectors (was Highway Driving Rules)
Message-ID: <295@moegate.UUCP>
Date: 9 May 89 20:47:11 GMT
References: <852@mv03.ecf.toronto.edu> <9556@watcgl.waterloo.edu> <13665@watdragon.waterloo.edu> <1989May9.152855.27968@utzoo.uucp>
Reply-To: soley@moegate.UUCP (Norman S. Soley)
Organization: Ontario Ministry of the Environment
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In article <1989May9.152855.27968@utzoo.uucp> henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) writes:
>In article <13665@watdragon.waterloo.edu> djsalomon@watdragon.waterloo.edu (Daniel J. Salomon) writes:
>>I am seriously pissed off at brainless, macho speeders.  They should
>>require IQ tests before giving driving licenses, not just driving tests.
>
>Sounds like a good idea to me:  let only the truly competent drivers onto
>the road... and then let them drive at any speed they like!

Here! Here! 

I find it ironic that most people who trot out the example of the German 
Autobahns as justification for no speed limits probably wouldn't qualify
for a drivers licence in Germany, driver testing in Germany and Great Britian
is much tougher that it is here, I also believe that in some European countries
they impound your car if your licence is suspended. 

>Before the great 55 Mania hit the US, there were several states whose
>daytime speed limit was "a reasonable and safe speed".  Literally; no
>numeric limit at all.

I was under the impression that the only state with a system like that was
Nevada, hardly qualifies as "several states". 

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