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Originally posted by Overpaid Slacker
75 mph is "safer" than 85, no?
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Yes. Inertia is increased, so if anything happens, the hit is going to be harder and more likely to damage the car or anything inside the car. In my book that makes it more dangerous. Also, because of the speed even a trained, skilled driver will have less time to react and less control, that also, IMO makes it more dangerous.
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it's "safer" for her to do so at 50 than at 80, no?
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Yes, being a dumba55 behind the wheel is safer at 50 than 80 for excatly the reasons above.
But I do also agree with the point that an idiot driver going 50 pulling in front of an attentive driver going 80 is more dangerous than if the idiot driver was going 75. So I agree with the quote below.
I am also in complete agreement that the biggest problem is incompetent, untrained, unskilled, unconscious, inattentive, selfish, rude, overconfident, inexperienced drivers. Any and all of these things can make for a deadly driver.
So, speed does kill, it's physics. I have a hard time seeing how anyone can argue that. But that's not the biggest problem. The biggest problem is that the training here is a joke and the ease with which nearly anyone can get a car and/or license is a joke.