Ok... this is insane. Someone needs a slap...

[saildog]

While we're at it, why not truck in a few loads of deer every day, and release them in the middle of downtown? That'd slow down traffic, too.

[Brad]

Why don't they just paint a huge speed bump on there instead?

[garagesale]

We should all be takin' public transit.

[MIB41]

"But officer I thought that kid was a speed bump..."

[RG]

now what they need to do is have it be a raised up a bit like a real speed bump so when you run over it ... it feels like you really ran over a kid too. get the full effect

[Meule]

Vancouver is somewhat unique in that there is no traditional freeway, I spent a week there a while back and I went nuts.



Yeah Montreal is kind of trippy that way.

You should try driving in Paris or Brussels

[samurainoir]

I will see all your aggressive North American drivers and raise you the city of Bangkok where I was once stranded in a traffic median for half an hour fearing for my life as cars and tuktuks made like a Mad Max movie.

Check out this poor couple.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fx-y2VJBET8

This is a fairly typical tuktuk ride...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nhmoX5xEajw

[livnxxxl]

What?! No love for the Auto Bahn?

For the record I think that is a very dumb idea and it will eventually cause a "real" serious accident.

I just do not understand why in the H-E double hockey sticks everyone has to be in such a dog gone hurry for these days. Where is the fire? That is what I want to know. I bet if you could stop most people that drive like fools and ask them what is the hurry they probably could not give you a real justifiable legit answer to your question.

As much as it pains me to say/type this I truly believe the best defense mechanism against this kind of driving would be

A) Start putting in speed bumps.

or

B) Make it a law to place governor like devices on all the automobiles in existence. How else are they really going to stop people from speeding?

Tickets do present fines, but that alone is not cutting the mustard. It is almost like an on going joke. People just hire an attorney, get the fine reduced to a misdemeanor and speed away from the Attorney's office paying a smaller ticket amount. Barely even a slap on the hand.

It is really tough to take this kind of stand especially when someone like myself that owns, collects and loves sports cars. Hell, My Viper registers 200 MPH. Have I ever went that fast? NO! Is there REALLY a need for anyone to go over 65 MPH on a public highway?

I just do not see the logic in building cars that go way over the posted speed limit. Other than professional racing at the track as a sport. ????

I know some will disagree with this. That is good. Lets start a constructive dialog. Perhaps someone can answer my question with a reasonable answer.

Bring on the dialog and let the beatings begin....

[Duncan]

I would argue that 65 is an arbitrary number; why not 63, 68 or 72? There's obviously a trade-off between speed and safety, and people will have different opinions depending on a number of factors.

Today's cars are capable of safely going pretty fast under good conditions. I try to go 75-80 on my way to work on one particular stretch of limited-access road that is flat, straight & 4 lanes wide. Though I'm in a Mustang, I don't like the way my car feels when I'm over 82 or 83, so I make it a point to top out around 80. However, 65 feels slow to me on that road.

Coming home tonight, traffic on the same road was very heavy. I was happy to go 55-60 and get home without incident. I guess my argument is that it's all relative.

[SlipperyLilSuckers]

I remember 2D cutouts of police in Japan. I think that was a good idea, but I am not so sure about a child, I think it could desensitize people.

[Sandman9580]

"But officer I thought that kid was a speed bump..."

Exactly.

My knee-jerk reaction to this was that it could possibly desensitize people, but now that I think about it, I highly doubt that would happen--real children are usually in motion, which you can detect and react to immediately. If all children were zombies and had a habit of standing very still in the middle of streets, then I'd be more worried.

No, my real concern is that this could actually be used in some way as a legal defense in court: some reckless driver kills a child and then uses the "speed bump" defense. Stranger things have happened.

now what they need to do is have it be a raised up a bit like a real speed bump so when you run over it ... it feels like you really ran over a kid too. get the full effect

[KosmiCKennY]

Ok, let's see....

I just do not understand why in the H-E double hockey sticks everyone has to be in such a dog gone hurry for these days. Where is the fire? That is what I want to know. I bet if you could stop most people that drive like fools and ask them what is the hurry they probably could not give you a real justifiable legit answer to your question.

I can think of a few, can't be late for work or won't have a job? surely you never heard of someone oversleeping and running late for work because of it right? Running late for an appointment that had to be scheduled months in advance and the day of the appointment something happens to delay you from leaving for it? How about wife is pregnant and in labor so trying to get to the hospital, you might say call an ambulance, but here in the boonies you can be at the hospital before an ambulance can get to your house let alone there and back to the hospital in time.

B) Make it a law to place governor like devices on all the automobiles in existence. How else are they really going to stop people from speeding?

Yeah, that would cost wayyyyyyy to much money and besides if you govern a vehicle to where it can't go past 65 how does that help when the speed limit is 35?

Tickets do present fines, but that alone is not cutting the mustard. It is almost like an on going joke. People just hire an attorney, get the fine reduced to a misdemeanor and speed away from the Attorney's office paying a smaller ticket amount. Barely even a slap on the hand.

I don't know how many tickets you have ever used a lawyer for, but it has been my experience that it cost wayyyyy more than the cost of just paying the ticket, short term cost that is, now the long term cost of the insurance co. hiking your rates because of the ticket, that's another matter, I usually don't use lawyers if I can help it, of the times I have gotten a ticket(there has been a few over the past 30 years I admit) I have been able to call the D.A. and plead guilty to a lesser charge, for more money of course, still cheaper than hiring a lawyer though and they don't mind doing that as long as they get their money which is what they really want anyway.

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it is really tough to take this kind of stand especially when someone like myself that owns, collects and loves sports cars. Hell, My Viper registers 200 MPH. Have I ever went that fast? NO! Is there REALLY a need for anyone to go over 65 MPH on a public highway?

I just do not see the logic in building cars that go way over the posted speed limit. Other than professional racing at the track as a sport. ????

If the speedometer goes up to 200, 120, 150 or whatever, I'm going to see if it can, why? because it's there, because it's a rush, because it makes me feel alive! 'nuff said! :D