[SAJ]

John, please. 'The people' decide? When does that happen in the legislative process in this nation, eh? In the 1970s, the people decided, quite adamantly, that a 55 limit, esp on roads which were designed for safety at 80+ MPH, was a crock. All that happened, as you should recall, was that people in huge numbers became scofflaws. This is a good result??

Also, you cannot impute a charge of one's whole life to this calculation. The only amount that can be imputed in a statistically valid manner, for any given trip at highway speeds is

(T / L) x abs(( DP₅₅ - DP₇₀) x V)

where:

T is the time elapsed, in minutes, while driving at highway speeds
L is the age of the person, in minutes
V is the value of the life of the person in question
DP_X is the probability of death occuring when driving at X miles/hr.

You will find this number, should you run the calculation and depending on what value you assign to V, to be something on the order of .00001, certainly nowhere near 1 penny pertypical trip.

[no-s]

what about the risk of killing someone else? That must be a risk associated with the group speed.

BTW, thx for the rational perspective...