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Originally Posted by Jeff Higgins
Add to that the danger inherent in motor races, and the American public's pious, puritan perspective of what they consider to be motoring safety, and a tarmac rally becomes an almost impossible sell. This outlook on motoring is fed and enforced by our public officials, who seem to have well and truly snowed the average disinterested citizen into believing their nonsense. [b]I believe we have the most draconian driving laws in the industrialized world[b], aimed at removing any semblance of enjoyment from the endeavor. Anything remotely resembling "spirited" driving is strongly discouraged by these ninnies and the laws they use in their quest to reduce the rest of us to their misserable existance. Anyone having any sort of fun with a car, God forbid on a public road (even if it's closed) is unthinkable to this lot. And they are very much winning...
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Are you kidding me? The US has some of the least stringent driving laws in the western world. You are allowed to drive rustbuckets on the road, use radar detectors, no speed cameras, few red light cameras, your DUI limit is 0.08 (rather than 0.05 here or 0.00 in Scandanavian countries)... and so forth and so on. In Victoria, Australia, you can be booked for being 3km/h (2mph) over the limit, even though nation-wide design regulations require that the speedo only be accurate to within 10%.
Try England and Australia for draconian driving laws. US is a driver's utopia by comparison.