On a motorway? I’m a little torn, but basically I agree that if you’re all going in the same direction, there are no learner drivers and there’s sufficient space and good road conditions, 70mph can be a ridiculous limit. We need to do something about probationers and foreign drivers though, because either of those could bring down an experienced driver by doing something idiotic. I have to say, it seems a little dumb to me to allow someone to drive at 70mph in a huge truck on our motorways when they’re not used to driving on our roads with our rules – not without some kind of competence test anyway. But I guess it’s all about the money again.

It matters little how much drivers (racing or otherwise) are paid ..

The materials they’re wearing are of little importance either ..

I’d suggest that my Land Rover Discovery is about as “protective” as anything on the road, without Armour plating ..

On a race track in the event of fog .. the race gets cancelled .. the Motorways however remain open for use ..

As someone said earlier .. its not speed per se which kills .. its the person behind the wheel, driving in a dangerous manner .. in the same way that the most lethal part of any gun is the nut behind the trigger ..

Speed restrictions & Speed Cameras are all very well .. but they only detect one type of offence .. they don’t catch vehicles which are dangerously overloaded, they don’t catch vehicles which are badly maintained or in a dangerous condition, they don’t catch drivers overtaking on the inside etc ..

They simply catch those whose prosecution will be the easiest to ensure & the offence which generates the most income for the Government ..

Its a Catch-22. We’d all die of ennui and boredom. Its no accident, if you’ll forgive the pun, that interest in extreme sports has soared as the ‘elf and safety mob have started making life as dull and safe as possible.

In fact there are such laws. Doesn’t stop it happening though. There’s a misconception that in order to stop a certain behaviour one has to pass a law.

Then everybody sits back and goes ‘thats that sorted’. Unfortunately not.

Okay, assuming you’re talking about kph when you say that and since 30 kph = 18.6 mph…

18.6 mph??!? You got to be kidding. I’m going faster than that before I’m halfway down my driveway (and even faster if I’m driving the car).

And I agree, speed doesn’t kill. Idiots in the drivers’ seat do. The apathetic human robots at the Department of Motor Vehicles who give out licenses to idiots who end up in the drivers’ seat do also. But not speed.

I remember somewhere back around 1974 or so the government decided to lower all highway speed limits to 55 mph on the idea that it would save fuel and increase safety. Around 1986 they raised the limit to 65 since studies showed that the actual decrease in speed had done neither and most drivers were violating the limit anyway while most states were turning their back on violators. In 1995 the government removed all government imposed limits and let the states go back to setting their own limits so out highway speeds range from 65 to 75 depending on which state you’re driving in.

Our traffic fatalities have dropped by significantly more than half since 1966 so no…speed does not kill.

Now I should be able to end this comment on a clever note but I seem to have lost track of what I was saying.
.-= Kirk M´s last brainfart .. Blogging belongs to those over 30? =-.

Welcome Lupus!  They claim [HAH!] that the lower limit is supposed to speed things up.  If you can follow that logic, then you are ready to believe anything this shit government and crap councils are going to spout out.

TT – If the poor bugger is going to have a ‘medical episode’ [and at 75, that's on the cards] then he shouldn’t have been driving in the first place, so his speed is irrelevant.  Are you commenting because you are bored, or are you bored of commenting?  Take a break.