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Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
If you are in a 55 zone and drive at 55 during a snowstorm, you might be ticketed for driving too fast. The law usually says you need to adjust your speed to the road/weather conditions. I don't know how many times I have had people blow by me when it is snowing only to find them in a ditch, up a hill, into a wall, or under a truck a few miles down the road.
How come nobody called *47? The Highway Patrol would have put an expensive end to this stunt.
I really don't have a problem with this little act of civil obedience with one caveat - blocking emergency vehicles is dangerous, inconsiderate, and illegal. However, the kiddies should not be surprised that people got upset at them - when you step into someone's life and use them for your own purposes, whether that be politics or performance art, you are courting a punch in the nose for presumption whether you are technically legal or not.
For years I have had one of those daytime nightmares (daymares?) of bored college kids going out on a busy Interstate (say I-70 in Ohio) on the Friday of a holiday weekend, filling all available lanes and going 55 or even much slower just to see how much havoc would result.
Haven't watched the film but I plan to. My only concern is that the 'punk kid' angle and/or the speed limit Nannies may get more play than the obvious conclusion that speed limits as posted/enforced are a joke.
Fascinating quote - may have to pick up that copy of Rand at long last.
An angry, frustrated driver at 55 is more dangerous than a happy, relaxed driver at 75.
I live near the I10 in SoCal..in the Inland Empire...posted speed limit is 70. Most cars are doing 80-90 with big rigs doing 65-70. It's getting wild out here.
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1. Deliberately creating a situation where more than five cars are closely following you--a major no-no!
2. Side-by-side driving is a MAJOR no-no in California, even more so than tailgating!
I drive the speed limit. And I rarely find myself caught in a pressure wave. No traffic to the front, left, or rear. I'm safe as houses and, to date, have never been in an accident. I'll continue to drive the speed limit :)
Well there is a little loophole in the Georgia traffic code which states you cannot get a ticket for speeding if you are going at the same speed as everyone else.
In other words, it everyone around you is driving at around 80 mph, so can you without getting a ticket.
And in Atlanta, they do drive that fast on the interstate.
Awesome. I'm glad they did it and didn't get killed. The 55 laws are designed for revenue enhancement and insurance company enrichment.
The video:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5366552067462745475&q=%22meditation+on+the+speed+limit%22
Americans distrust government anyway, that's who we are.
But to flagrantly dare an American to flout the law is to invite wholesale disaster and eventually pitchforks. Maybe even a waterside tea party.
Conservatives fear the 'mob in the streets' that overcome our civil authorities' ability to maintain order.
Want to avoid a coup ? by Hillaryites ?
Bring back respect for the law, and parental authroity.
BUMP
Actually, in some jurisdictions it is against the law to not give way to faster traffic. I don't know about Georgia. So driving in four cars in a coordinated fashion in order to block all four lanes might be illegal. It certainly created a hazardous condition.
I started driving the speed limit on the Garden State Parkway about half a year ago, when some moron passed me on the right shoulder when I was driving in the slow lane at 15 mph over the limit. Now I drive in the right hand lane at 55 mph for the ten miles I am on this road. It costs me 2 minutes each way, my gas milage has increased 5 mpg, and I travel in a little bubble of slow moving traffic.
Some of the leadfoots here may have a problem with that, but the Garden State Parkway is six lanes wide, each way, at this stretch. I leave five lanes to the law-breakers. I'm just gonna follow the double nickel on that lane alllll the way to the right.
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