Article: Speeding: An Excellent Law Destroyed By Dumb Enforcement.
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Speeding: An Excellent Law Destroyed By Dumb Enforcement.
The offence of exceeding the speed limit was sensibly created to improve road safety and offer guidance to drivers. When it is applied with intelligence it can do exactly that, and indeed generally until about 1985 that's exactly what we had.
Much modern publicity suggests that perhaps 29.9 mph is safe and legal, while 30.1 mph is dangerous and illegal. Many people accept the law at face value and condemn speeding drivers as dangerous. But thinking people all know that reality differs. Sometimes 40 mph in a 30 mph limit is a perfectly sensible speed. More frequently on other roads at other times 30 mph is dangerously fast.
But speed limits are by their very nature arbitrary. In almost all circumstances the speed limit is not the best speed to drive at. As loca...
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