Should he have been sent to jail for it? I don't think so. But it's remarkable how acceptable that behavior seems to be.
In the realm of ego orientated commenting, this one really stands out.
I do not want to put my life in your unregulated hands. I want you regulated to hell and back when you operate a tonne of steel at thirty metres per second heading in my general direction.
Actually: Can you, especially you warning26, catch a bus?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autobahn
Parts of highway with unrestricted speed are not only possible, they're not particularly dangerous either.
>I do not want to put my life in your unregulated hands.
It takes an impressive amount of cognitive dissonance to insult him and then drivel about "putting your life in unregulated hands" when the regulation in question is speed limits, a type of regulation to which compliance is low to the point of it almost being comical. If the regulation were something like standards of cleanliness for canned food or something else that's pretty much always adhered to you might have a point but it's not and you don't.
It's not the regulation that's keeping your naive self safe. Your life is pretty much already in unregulated hands because pretty much nobody is minding the regulation. It's that most people are reasonable and drive reasonably that keeps you as safe as you are. People are driving the speeds they drive because those speeds are reasonable to them. They are not whizzing by you at triple digit speeds because those speeds to not feel reasonable to them. It has nearly nothing to do with the number on the sign.
If an ambulance has to go that way, you'd want that to be able to drive fast.
Also, people can drive poorly on any type of road.
If you care about the time to get to an emergency room, get hospitals closer to people?
People can drive poorly on any road, but they'll do it more if the road guides them to misbehave.
So they could set up some arbitrary obstacles to slow people down prior to the natural contour of the terrain, or, you know, throw up a sign which indicates a safe speed for the upcoming section of highway.
It was a very specific road near where I grew up. Nice and flat. Looked like you could do any speed you wanted. People routinely did 55. Posted was 30.
Near one end of the road was a tree slowly pushing a tree root underneath the road. This followed into a sharp curve bordered by a second, ancient tree.
The neighborhood lost about one person every 6 months who got complacent driving that road faster than speed limit and then got decapitated when they hit that tree root, their car went airborne, rotated 90°, and the top half of the passenger space intersected the ancient tree down the road.
DOTs get no budget to reshape a bad road and do the best they can to try and keep us from killing ourselves out there.
Funny thing about governments by, for, and of the people.
