You are correct. But without the law there would be no corrective action - ticket, loss of license, jailtime, etc... Laws are not just written to be preventative but also punitive.
About 5 years ago, I was on Hwy. 412 going thru OK panhandle early on Sunday morning.
A Ford GT 40 passed me at about 150 mph. My estimate using my speed and a reference point down the road . You would cover about 215 feet per second at that speed. Old super bike racer trick.
Anyway right after the Ford came a OHP charger doing every bit of that, and then some.
I later told a buddy of mine that is a retired Trooper about it.
Ron said he had heard rumors at Trooper gathering about OHP had got a Hell Cat.
They had to outfit the car locally because Dodge would not sell the car as a pursuit option.