I don't like to talk about my speeding habits. I dont mind talking about my roommates though :) A few weeks ago he managed to get a ticket for doing 99 (he was really doing 125) in a 70 zone coming up the 5 from socal. The cop took it easy on him, but the ticket still cost $500. Most people get ill when he is behind the wheel, except for me, since we drive the same way.
Speed Limits
by Abaddon 25 Replies latest jw friends
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Princess
The last time I was stopped for speeding, I was going 25 over. It was night, past 10pm and I was driving a minivan with another mom and our four kids were sleeping in the back. We were heading to Hood River, Oregon for a few days vacation. Must have looked OK because he let me go with a warning. My friend was on the phone with her husband the whole time...he just couldn't believe I didn't get a ticket for going 80 in a 55 zone.
I was winking at him the whole time.
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maxwell
I don't own a car now and when I do drive one, I follow the speed limit very closely, partly because I live in a city, and partly because I'm concerned about being kicked out of the car-sharing company I am with or having an accident with the car. Cops in DC can't chase and I'm not sure I've ever seen them light someone up for speeding, but there are speed cameras in some places. However, I have definitely driven in areas where I viewed the speed limit as a suggestion. In fact, when I was a JW and living in an area where I needed a car all the time, I always told myself that the "real" speed limit was the posted limit+10, so I was following Ceasar's law practically. When I lived near Memphis and worked part-time at night, posted speed limits on the Interstate were definitely only suggestions at night. Posted limit was 55 or 60 (All speeds in mph). Coming home at 3 or 4 in the morning, I would cruise at 75-80. People would pass me at 90 and the cops would pass me and the people who passed me at 100 (no lights or sirens) and not even blink. I suppose they had better things to do. Not so in the little towns outside of Memphis. I have gotten two speeding tickets in the 11 years since I started driving at 16, one in my small hometown about an hour away from Memphis and one in a suburban community/city right up against Memphis. Both tickets were for going somewhere between 10-15 mph over the speed limit in 30 or 35 mph zones. I'm a black guy and it was simply out of the question for me to argue with or question a white cop in those little southern towns besides being out of character for me. And although at the time I didn't think the infractions were severe or warranted being ticketed, I did break the law, so I simply paid the tickets.
When my parents moved to the small town outside of Memphis, the road we lived on didn't have a posted limit. It was a two-lane country road with curves, but after you learn the curves, doing the 5 miles from town at 70-75 could easily be done. There were too many sharp curves to go much faster, but I did max out my old '85 diesel (yes diesel) Mazda 626 on one straight portion at about 90 one night. It wasn't a very powerful car. I had trouble keeping up with some people I was trailing while driving it through the Ozarks in Arkansas. You probably would not be able to max out more powerful cars on that back road I lived on. However, curves do make for more interesting driving, and in my humble opinion, sort of separates out levels of skills. None of the curves on that road were too sharp to hold at 55, but I often saw people slow below 55 or come out of their lane going around bends. It's a wonder to me that more people don't die on those two-lane country back roads.
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Gadget
I've got a clean licence. In residential areas I keep to the speed limit religously, but elsewhere I normally go as fast as my car will take me. Its not so bad now that I drive a small diesel thats very very slow, but my old car was a Renault 5 turbo that could pin you back in the seat at any speed in any gear. I had to get rid of it or I would have killed myself, it was too addictive. When I'm on my bike I speed a lot, I rode home from Newcastle(20 mile) the other weekend cruising along at around 150mph. And I have a trophy somewhere from when I competed in a rally years ago.
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Euphemism
The Illinois State Police and city police usually won't bother you because pulling you over to issue a citation would add to the traffic congestion.
Same thing in NY! I miss that. Speed limit on the larger boulevards was officially either 30 or 35, but I routinely went 50 and never got stopped. On the LIE, the limit was officially 50, and I would generally do 70-80, without any worries about cops. Of course, that was to make up for all the times I was stuck in bumper-to-bumper traffic!
On my way out to Boise I got pulled over in Pennsylvania for doing 90. The cop was kind enough to only give me 84, so I didn't get points on my license. Still, it was a $180 fine; so I don't do more than 10 over now, 'cause I can't afford to waste money.
The fastest I've ever done is 100; that was on a toll thruway between Ft Lauderdale and Orlando, and the police generally leave speeders alone because of the tolls (at least, that's what my Floridian friend told me, and I saw no evidence otherwise).
I would be scared to do much more than that, so I guess I would be one of the 'slow' ones on the Autobahn!
(P.S. All speeds are in mph. Europeans multiply by 1.6 for kph.)
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kls
We have three collector cars, but my favorite is my 68 Dodge Charger, When i get behind the wheel them demons take me over cause i can't help but put the peddle to the medal. Me and no speed limit? Oh ,for only a few miles.
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Atilla
I actually haven't gotten one ticket since leaving the org. For one, I'm not in a hurry to get to the KH or get home for that matter, (yes, I actually got a ticket on my way to meeting once, kinda of embarrassing because other dubs saw me pulled over) and 2nd, I drive a Toyota Camry automatic now and not a Saab Turbo like I used too.
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mineralogist
Sometimes when we drive back home at night i ask my wife why she doesn't feel sleepy and close her eyes? That normally leads to speed as the car and traffic allows! Once we went on a dry early sunday morning in summer to an assembly and got the the car to drive 240km/h - never got that again due to taffic. Till now i had very much luck ... because if you go that fast and come to a speed limit at the Autobahn you normally don't push the brakes - and if it goes into maintenance it could mean to go down to 100/80/60 km/h in a short way. But inner city - esp before schools or where kids could play - there is no discussion to hold it.
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got my forty homey?
In the New York/New Jersey area the state troopers are very strict about speed enforcement. In Pennsylvania only state police can use radar, all other agencies cannot use radar but only vascar (visual timing) so only on state highways and interstates you have to worry in PA.
I've been pulled over 3 times by Jersey state troopers, but they also like to stop you for driving while black. You see, my wife is black and one day while on the turnpike her mother and sister were in the vehicle with me, and while I admit I was going 80 in a 65 so was everyone else! BUt I got pulled over!
In general I feel speed enforcement is just a revenue generator for goverments. If they can make cars run with less emmissions, have safety bags, why not make cars only run 65 miles an hour. Because then hundreds of police officers, judges, DA's, and revenues would come to an end. You know this because at the end of the month NY state troopers are pulling over drivers all over the place. Or in the beggining of the month the State Troopers will do speed saturations with one trooper and his laser gun hiding in the grass and three or four troopers waiting down the road to get you.
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truthseeker1
I don't think there is a conspiracy. They can make cars that top out at 65. They make governers that cap a car's speed. Problem is, Nobody will buy those cars. People want fast cars, just like they want SUVs. Most people won't go 4x4ing in their 4x4 SUVs, but they feel great being able to. Same goes with speed.
Speed limits are for public safety. Sure they build revenu, but only from violators. The faster you go the more dangerous and deadlier the accident is. And the way CA drivers are, i'm glad there is a speed limit. But it does suck that some officers are racist and pull people over for a DWB.