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White and Nerdy
Join Date: Jun 2004
Location: South of Charlotte N.C.
Posts: 14,923
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I drive a $4,000 car - and would have no second thoughts about it being perfectly safe to drive on the interstates at 100MPH. Just so long as the car is in proper mechanical order.(which it is) It doesn't take a gilzillion dollars to get a car that is safe at speed - it just has to be designed for it.
Now at night - I live in an area with lots of wild animals, and I do not - DO NOT drive fast - often under the speed limit in some areas I know are prolific with deer. Saved me once when one bolted from the behind a house close to the road, I was only going 30MPH - and was able to avoid it at that speed - 45MPH, we'd of hit.
I do not get how some are so obsessed over how terrible "90MPH" is. Hello? Do you realize how freak'n fast the surface of the earth is moving around its center? Or around the sun? If speed killed - we'd all be dead now...Relative to other objects, we are hurtling at speeds beyond our comprehension.
Back in the early days of trains, people thought going 55MPH wasn't something humans where meant to do. Perhaps your head would explode with such speed! now most drivers do it on a daily basis. I think its time we did rework our speed limits - but first, I'd want to be sure drivers understood how to drive their car.
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