Time for another Tangent Tuesday. Today it's car related. Recently we had the speed limit changed on one of our Roads form 55-70.
Now I have a great many speeding tickets, at one point a judge, A JUDGE, said that if prohibition ever came back he'd be calling me up to run moonshine. This is just so you can see my take on speed limits on average.
But ours was recently increased and I can't help but ask, Why?
Have the safety of cars improved so much that the risk of a deadly crash is less? Well it can't be that can it because this new speed limit isn't only for the new cars I mean how many thousands of older less safe cars are still on the road? Seems to me that constructions of roads has been the same pretty much my entire life span.
Are drivers being more cautious? Nope I mean we have even more distractions, phones, radios, smart devices, billboards, other drivers (more of them). We certainly aren't being trained any differently. We aren't getting the dangerous drivers off the road any quicker. The last time I had to go to court for a speeding ticket there was a guy on his 9th DUI no party plates the Judge gave him rehab 3 days jail and privileges for work. We certainly aren't being more courteous to each other on the road.
So what is it? An assumed need that everyone needs to be able to get places faster? Well that's not really true we could still leave with time to get to where we need to go. Our assumed self worth? My time is worth money and if I waste all this time driving I'm losing money? Pretty meh argument.
As a guy that has had many speeding tickets, I question these things. Did I break the law? Yes. Was the law right? Apparently not. Which means we should be asking an even larger question. If certain laws aren't actually protecting people then why do we have them? (yeah I'll get the argument that I endangered others because of the variants in my speed vs. theirs, that's a bs argument because I do 70 now in a 70 and still pass people going 55)
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