Why aren't top speeds limited?

[Kurokage]

Wow, and you were complaining about what I said about your propaganda piece you posted.  SMH

Maybe comment about the actual topic in this thread and talk about speed limits??

Talk about holding a grudge from another thread, it's that kind of thinking that causes road rage incidents when out driving and another reason why limiting top speeds is a good idea.

[PorkChop96]

it's that kind of thinking that causes road rage incidents when out driving and another reason why limiting top speeds is a good idea.

I see way more low speed, in town driving, road rage every day than I do on the highway. Ask anyone that has lived out of town for a few years then go back to a bigger city and see which is worse. 

In most cases, that I see every day, road rage has almost nothing to do with going too fast, it has everything to do with people going too slow and/or not paying attention to what they are actually doing. They are too worried about that big mac in their hands, the phone on their dash scrolling tiktok, the makeup they should have put on before leaving the house, or even sometimes the sleep they should have gotten the night before.  


I would rather see highway and interstate speed minimums raised to a safer level, before I would argue for governed speed limit in cars. I am more worried about the car going 30 mph slower, "legally", than I am about the guy flying down the left lane doing 15 over the speed limit. Can both cause a crash and are both very hazardous, absolutely.

[Kurokage]

I see way more low speed, in town driving, road rage every day than I do on the highway. Ask anyone that has lived out of town for a few years then go back to a bigger city and see which is worse. 

In most cases, that I see every day, road rage has almost nothing to do with going too fast, it has everything to do with people going too slow and/or not paying attention to what they are actually doing. They are too worried about that big mac in their hands, the phone on their dash scrolling tiktok, the makeup they should have put on before leaving the house, or even sometimes the sleep they should have gotten the night before.  


I would rather see highway and interstate speed minimums raised to a safer level, before I would argue for governed speed limit in cars. I am more worried about the car going 30 mph slower, "legally", than I am about the guy flying down the left lane doing 15 over the speed limit. Can both cause a crash and are both very hazardous, absolutely.

That was a response to Krusty' who bought his moaning in from another thread. Not good karma, and I thought it's that kind of holding grudges that leads to road rage incidents.

I think around 100mph is a fair top speed, and most European cars are now limited 155mph any way. I think it's the younger drivers who've just passed and are 4 up with friends, they usually don't have the driving experience but like to show off (modern cars are a lot faster for newer drivers), which is why the death rate amongst younger drivers is going up.

[PorkChop96]

I think around 100mph is a fair top speed, and most European cars are now limited 155mph any way. I think it's the younger drivers who've just passed and are 4 up with friends, they usually don't have the driving experience but like to show off (modern cars are a lot faster for newer drivers), which is why the death rate amongst younger drivers is going up.

I agree, too many younger kids are taking mommy and daddy's car on a joy ride, or just the car they use every day, and driving recklessly because they feel nothing bad will happen. Usually they have never been held accountable for any of their actions. But, it's usually those kids that will cause a massive wreck, come out unscathed or with minor bumps and bruises, while someone else in that wreck ends up seriously injured, paralyzed, or worse.

[Tecate]

When I first started working as a medic there were still some ‘60s and ‘70s cars on the roads. Heavy steel frames and body, poor safety features and engineering were the norm.
You were the crumple-zone. 

Now the vehicle folds up dissipating the energy, airbags and seatbelts keep the occupants in the cabin which is designed to withstand collisions better. The engine and transmission are designed to drop down and not end up in the cabin. So, definitely some better engineering regarding safety, but like everything else now, not designed to last. 

Some vehicles just are not designed for high speed. So it’s kind of like the Autobahns where you can drive unlimited speed but not with just any car.

Driver experience, road conditions and the vehicle itself make all the difference. Inexperienced drivers in fast cars with shit tires after the first snowstorm are a huge statistic…

Meh, as usual, my 2 pesos…

Tecate

[rickymouse]

When I first started working as a medic there were still some ‘60s and ‘70s cars on the roads. Heavy steel frames and body, poor safety features and engineering were the norm.
You were the crumple-zone. 

Now the vehicle folds up dissipating the energy, airbags and seatbelts keep the occupants in the cabin which is designed to withstand collisions better. The engine and transmission are designed to drop down and not end up in the cabin. So, definitely some better engineering regarding safety, but like everything else now, not designed to last. 

Some vehicles just are not designed for high speed. So it’s kind of like the Autobahns where you can drive unlimited speed but not with just any car.

Driver experience, road conditions and the vehicle itself make all the difference. Inexperienced drivers in fast cars with shit tires after the first snowstorm are a huge statistic…

Meh, as usual, my 2 pesos…

Tecate

I got fifty one dents on the hood of my Subaru a couple years back from acorns flying out of the Oak tree near our house.  I like to park under it, actually we always have parked under it because it stops hail damage to our cars.  It was covered under comp, so we don't have a deductible.  It was fifty five hundred bucks.  The body shop couldn't believe it, and the insurance company sent an adjuster to see it. 

So if that was not bad enough, after it was all fixed up, mice filled up the muffler with all the acorns on the ground that year, the ground was all covered with acorns and there was well over a gallon of acorns on the ground when they went to fix it, dumped out of the muffler....they had to replace the muffler, I actually got the muffler, and I got over a quart out of it after that ten inch high pile of acorns came out from their efforts to clear it out.  I got most of them out, and I put a cross of SS bolts on the tailpipe to deter it from happening again.  A mouse would have ahard time hauling acorns in it with full cheeks....but we had one hanging out one day that was stuck in one of the quarters of the tailpipe that I had but the cross into.  It was hanging out, meaning it got stuck and asphyxiated trying to get out of the muffler.

A friend of mine works for the fire department and he goes out during car accidents.  A small frontal crash and they have to use the jaws to tear open the door to get people out, and that is the reason that so many cars get totaled.  He said that the door getting stuck actually helps to keep the passengers safer because of that folding up of everything in an accident.  otherwise the doors would fly open, and the integrety would be gone...so it is part of the design issue in many cars.

I remember the old cars, hit a deer, and the grill got broken, no need to even have the comprehensive insurance, the grill was thirty bucks, a headlight was usually five bucks, and the little chrome trim around the light was five bucks or maybe just a buck from the junkyard.  Grills are not that expensive now, but they are all plastic, not chrome coated metal.

I miss the old cars, I used to like sitting on the hood at outdoor parties or at the beach.  Now, if an acorn hits it it dents.

[KrustyKrab]

Maybe comment about the actual topic in this thread and talk about speed limits??

Talk about holding a grudge from another thread, it's that kind of thinking that causes road rage incidents when out driving and another reason why limiting top speeds is a good idea.

Just pointing out your hypocrisy, carry on.

[Kurokage]

Just pointing out your hypocrisy, carry on.

Thanks for that Karen!

I take it you don't or have never drove, and have absolutely no thoughts about the topic of this thread, you just wanted to carry that chip on your shoulder over to another thread, Good for you.