Suzuki Samurai was Re: [geeks] SPARC proprietary (waaaay

[Phil Stracchino]

On Mon, Oct 13, 2003 at 09:59:42AM -0500, Joshua D. Boyd wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 11, 2003 at 07:46:27PM -0400, Phil Stracchino wrote:
> > Of course, setting more realistic speed limits will also reduce speeding
> > tickets.  Most highway speed limits in the US are unreasonably low,
> > especially out west.  But reducing speeding tickets reduces speeding
> > ticket revenues ....  if no traffic violations were committed in the US
> > for an entire year, MANY townships and jurisdictions would either go
> > broke or be forced to invent new ones.
> 
> Especially out west?  Have you seen the roads and speed limits around
> here? 

Well, I don't know where "out west" you are.  But I lived in Washington
State and California for almost 20 years with significant driving back
and forth between, and while the highways aren't always as well
manitained as I've seen them in *some* other areas of the US, it's
frequently several hundred miles between cities.  I recall a study some
years back which found that the largest single cause of fatalitles on
interstate highways in the western US was "single-vehicle accidents
involving driver inattention" -- translation, the driver fell asleep at
the wheel because he was bored out of his skull.  Quite honestly, on
most of the western-US interstates, I see nothing whatsoever
unreasonable about the late, lamented Montana highway speed-limit
policy:  "Reasonable and prudent during daylight hours."


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