[Colonel Kangaroo]

It may be just a tax, but it's one that's easily avoidable and in avoiding this tax by driving the speed limit, the citizen makes the highways a whole lot safer.

[Graybeard58]

Sheriff J. Tyson Stephens of Emanuel County, has called the $200 state fine little more than a tax that will impose an out-of-kilter burden on the working poor.

W.T.H. does that mean?

[2nd Bn, 11th Mar]

Georgia is one of the few places where I’ve seen county sheriff deputies doing radar on the Interstates.

They just see all those wallets driving thru and have to rake off some revenue.

[GeorgiaDawg32]

I’ve driven up the Alpharetta Autobahn (Ga. 400) before at 80 mph soley to KEEP UP with traffic and not CAUSE an accident due to going too slow. Even at that speed, people were blowin by me like I was standin still..

[ICE-FLYER]

“It’s a lifesaving law,” said Bob Dallas, director of the Governor’s Office of Highway Safety

Liar! Just keep telling yourself this as the scum politicians make these "fines" for "safety" er...uh REVENUE. PERIOD.

Having lived in different countries where speed is higher I can tell you its NOT about SAFETY.

[nathanbedford]

“It’s a lifesaving law,”

As someone living mostly in Germany for nearly 20 years, I find this hard to swallow.

Not every part of the autobahns here are without speed limits but a good portion of them are. When a speed limit is posted I believe is respected far more than it is in the states.

I think the practice here in Germany is by far the superior one. It puts the emphasis on car and driver rather than on speed. My eldest son has just gotten his German driver's license and it cost us about $2000 and it cost him many many hours of study and many, many kilometers driving with an instructor to fulfill driving experience requirements. Believe me, the course is arduous and the milestones are demanding.

I have no doubt that the result produces a far superior driver on average in Germany than in the United States where the written tests are just silly and driving tests are perfunctory.

More, car inspections in Germany are very thorough indeed and the cars are on the road in Germany are on average simply safer than those we allow the roads in America. I was stopped last winter in a routine stop and police measured the thread in my tires and made me produce the safety vest, the emergency yield sign, and my medical kit. There are fines for being on the road without them. Everyone takes seriously the need to buckle up.

So when you see a Mercedes bearing down on you on the autobahn doing about 180 to 200 km an hour it is a good idea to stop picking your nose and move over to the right. It is a very bad idea to flip any other driver the bird, that might cost you a couple of thousand euros.

[The Sons of Liberty]

If you’re not doing AT LEAST 75 on the interstate, you’re inviting an 18 wheeler into you backseat.

[Richard Kimball]

“It’s a lifesaving law,” said Bob Dallas, director of the Governor’s Office of Highway Safety, noting that speeding makes death or severe injury much more likely when an accident happens.

Male bovine scatterology. Tax revenues are down. They need money.

[Knitebane]

It may be just a tax, but it's one that's easily avoidable and in avoiding this tax by driving the speed limit, the citizen makes the highways a whole lot safer.

Source, please.

[relictele]

“It’s a lifesaving law,” said Bob Dallas, director of the Governor’s Office of Highway Safety

Non sequitur as usual from those who stand to cash in.

If speed is dangerous then restrict cars from exceeding 70 mph via governor chips or mechanical devices. Ah but that would cut into the juicy profits.

As for those 'saints' who believe the speed limit is a panacea: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OoETMCosULQ

Speed limits are hardly scientific. Most people praising the speed limit and/or who believe it is the 'safe' speed for a road ignore the most basic tenets of traffic engineering that set the limit at the 85th percentile of all speeds traveled.

But those are engineers. Bureaucrats care not a whit about safety but fines levied by fatally-biased 'mayor's courts' and municipal judges are a nice little earner.

[paul51]

It’s a lifesaving law

Sure it is. Thank god for our politicians. They're saving our lives /s

[Don Corleone]

Georgia...was...is...and probably always will be the number one speed trap in America...North...South...or Central.

[Buckeye McFrog]

where is the obligatory picture post of Catherine Bach in her Daisy Dukes, posing with the General Lee?

[peteram]

At least one local official, Sheriff J. Tyson Stephens of Emanuel County, has called the $200 state fine little more than a tax that will impose an out-of-kilter burden on the working poor. Didn't think they could afford a fast car.

[Raider Sam]

Not to be a smartass, but I have some logistical questions about this.

What is the speed limit on Ga highways? Why is that the safe speed?

I was talking with a civil engineer who said that speed limits were set at 80% of the speed that can be driven safely under poor conditions.

If you presume people will drop their speed by 15% (65-55) in poor conditions, then a highway with a speed limit of 65 mph would be completely safe at 95 mph. (65/.8=81, 81/.85=95).

So how does 85 mph on a highway present a safety issue when the highways are built to allow 95 mph safely in dry conditions?

[Protect the Bill of Rights]

I should add they need to write tickets to the engineers that designed the expressways in metro Atlanta. That would quickly reduce our budget shortfall.

I'm not just whistlin’ Dixie. We have the most dangerous road design (especially entrance and exit ramps) in the nation.