Originally posted by Rajk999i inched past a highway patrolman in texas who was driving the speed limit. he pulled me over and gave me a warning.
What might make more sense then is to have a city car that cannot go over say 60Kph. What you are not considering is that the speed limit is not necesarily enforced all the time. I know that in Miami on the I95 traffic can go as fast as 80 MPH and the police drives among the traffic and does nothing. The reason is that they know that its a safe speed (given ...[text shortened]... g the 55 MPH speed limit. So its impractical for the govt to impose a max speed on all vehicles.
Originally posted by ivan2908It is NOT true to say that ALL countries have spped limits. Hell even Montana in the US repealed their speed limits for a while in the late 90's.
why they produce road cars that go by far faster than any country allows on their roads ? Isn't that a paradox? Just curious what do you think ?
In the US desert, Nevada I think, there wasn't a speed limit until recently.
The point here is that since it's up to each state/province/country to set their own speed limits, it's too restrictive to say to auto manufactures to restrict the speeds on cars.
Hell, speed limits are increasing with time anyway. Frickin texas has an 85 mph speed limit!
Originally posted by Rajk999True, while speed is a factor in crashes, it pales in comparison to the effects of judgment errors, the use of substances which may impair your judgement, poor conditions on the road not being taken into account, not following road signs etc.
What might make more sense then is to have a city car that cannot go over say 60Kph. What you are not considering is that the speed limit is not necesarily enforced all the time. I know that in Miami on the I95 traffic can go as fast as 80 MPH and the police drives among the traffic and does nothing. The reason is that they know that its a safe speed (given ...[text shortened]... g the 55 MPH speed limit. So its impractical for the govt to impose a max speed on all vehicles.
I think it's fine for a car manufacturer to make cars that go very fast; if the person driving it is the type of person who makes judgement errors like speeding it in conditions that are innappropriate, then it's the persons judgement, not the car at fault.
Your question is tantamount to saying that anywhere that serves drink is not allowed to have a car park.
I'm sorry, but there comes a time when the driver has to take responsibility for their actions rather than the manufacturer.
I read something a few years ago about speed signs transmitting data to a governor in the car, keeping them below the speed limit.
Obviously not practical to make everyone own one, but it may be a good idea to make them mandatory to those who lose their license due to speeding violations.
Now something that looks very promising. Recently I viewed video presentation of electric autos and Tesla was in the group and I fell in love. They have a website with photos. You can believe the 0 – 60 time…the aceleration was shown in the video and it literally leapt down pavement. Can you say Ferrari?
* Electric auto, as beautiful as Lotus.
* 220 miles per charge.
* £2 cost per charge.
* Full charge 3.5 hours
* 0 – 60 mph time, 4 seconds!!
* Top speed 125 mph!!
* Price £49000
Really good part (you guessed it – no surprise here) not developed by government. Yes indeed, one of those evil corporations! 🙂 More of this and I will join Greenpeace...Not! Just kidding. 🙂
http://www.teslamotors.com/index.php
