Re: $8,000,000 in Tickets! (Spraw_kit)
quote:[HR][/HR]Techniques in road construction have - they are constructed using more advanced techniques than fifty years ago. This means a better surface that lasts longer.
We all know that designs of automobiles have changed in the past 50 years. This includes everything from brakeing and tires to safety equipment.[HR][/HR]
Yes, but while this is true, you must also accept that the human body has evolved little if at all over the last fifty years, so the maximum force that the human body can withstand has remained the same. And as such, increased speed limits would mean more devastating accidents.
Scenario 1:
City driver, speed limit is 50, on average people do 65, you're at a stoplight, some retodd doesn't see the light is red slams on the brakes and comes careening into you at 50, large momentum = large damage.
Scenario 2:
Now, imagine that the speed limit is 70, people will still speed, since the fines are the same for doing 85, as they were for doing 65 in a 50, and hey, they can get there even faster now!! Once again, he doesn't see the light is red until the exact same point. The time it takes him to slam on the brakes is the same, but in that time period, he has covered more distance travelling at 85 than at 65, he then has less time to decelerate from 85, and since the velocity is higher in this case while he is braking than in the other case, he will travell the distance to your car in a much smaller amount of time, keeping the velocity of the car even higher, so, instead of hitting your car at 50, he can only slow down 8 km/h and slams into the back of you at 77km/h, 27 km/h faster than in scenario 1.
I know you were just trying to have some fun with your statement, and I appreciate that, but people still drive like morons, and even with higher speed limits, morons will speed.
Make your choice
(no, I am not condoning drinking and driving
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[edit] forgot to comment on the original topic:
These blitzes would be much more effective if they happened one day at a time, randomly...don't inform the media of a safety blitz, and pull people over for being stupid, not for speeding, look at the cars, look at the drivers, go after those who don't look like they have the money, it may be a bit more immoral, but it will hit those people harder than the rich tards who pay off a $320 like its pocket change....hit em where it hurts. [/edit]
[Modified by cottageboy, 12:53 AM 11-2-2002]
[Modified by cottageboy, 4:08 PM 11-5-2002]
