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Good news is you can pick what state that you want to live in based on laws and taxes or any criteria that you wish. It's what makes this country great.
BTW- no state in the USA tolerates someone driving 15 MPH to 30+ MPH over the speed limit.
We are into silly talk territory now. Except to say the new EVs are going to make high speed driving a very simple thing to do. High Insurance rates eventually will put a brake on some of that nonsense of run of the mill EVs turning out 350 to 700 Hp.
BTW- no state in the USA tolerates someone driving 15 MPH to 30+ MPH over the speed limit.
We are into silly talk territory now. Except to say the new EVs are going to make high speed driving a very simple thing to do. High Insurance rates eventually will put a brake on some of that nonsense of run of the mill EVs turning out 350 to 700 Hp.
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I dive bomb the drivers side door laying on the horn when I get to the boiling point. No contact just a "scare tactic" Most of them still don't "wake up".
Lot's of left lane bandits out there. Miss my old truck with a 4x6 as a bumper.
Cops were handing out tickets for a while for s-l-o-w drivers in the "passing lanes. I haven't seen to many Staities around monitoring traffic. They are always heading off to fender benders around the city Interstate
Thankfully I don't commute hours to work anymore. I have NO tolerance for morons.
Come up and commute on interstate 93 into Boston, Massachusetts from the 'burbs some time.
The patient has clogged arteries. She's on Coumadin.
80MPH is der rigueur everyday. It's they only way to make the morning rush hours work.
To being going over 15 MPH of speed limit here would be 85 MPH. Yeah, maybe I should have said 20 to 30+ instead of 15.
Ive past police radar at around 82/83 in a 70. It not hard for them to get someone going 85 to 90
When Virginia first had 70MPH speed limits, they also still had the law that said that anything over 80MPH is reckless driving (class 1 misdemeanor punishable by up to 1 year in jail and/or a $2500 fine)
. So you could be charged with reckless driving for going 11MPH over the speed limit, if in a 70MPH zone.
They finally changed the law (it's now anything over 85MPH is reckless) but it took quite a while.
Failure to signal for a turn is also a reckless driving offense, but they never bother to enforce it from what I've seen. I imagine that the only way to get charged with this one is to sleep with a Virginia cop's girlfriend.
. So you could be charged with reckless driving for going 11MPH over the speed limit, if in a 70MPH zone.
They finally changed the law (it's now anything over 85MPH is reckless) but it took quite a while.
Failure to signal for a turn is also a reckless driving offense, but they never bother to enforce it from what I've seen. I imagine that the only way to get charged with this one is to sleep with a Virginia cop's girlfriend.
Had an ambulance years ago that would hit 120mph, that was sketchy! Pulled 140mph in a 1988 Ford Thunderbird once. My F150 will cutout at 106mph. Tend to keep it to 5-10 over, max. I don't feel like becoming an episode on Donut Operator's YouTube channel.
Pulls onto the highway from where? Drops from a space ship? My guy...there is no way to magic across hundreds of meters of field without being seen. Or long bridges. Or everglades with no roads.
Lets face it, we as Americans want the freedom to speed.
If we didnt, it's super simple to pass national legislation I would think, limiting the speed of vehicles. Its just a simple computer code entered in the vehicles ECM.
Pick a speed. Lets say 90 MPH... ?
If we didnt, it's super simple to pass national legislation I would think, limiting the speed of vehicles. Its just a simple computer code entered in the vehicles ECM.
Pick a speed. Lets say 90 MPH... ?
The police don't make the laws. The people you vote for do. That's why elected officials are called "lawmakers".
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Officers have, despite their claims to the contrary, quite a bit of discretion about what laws they enforce.
Except that they shouldn't. They should be like a vcr and record what they find. It's the public office that reads the reports and decides what to pursue and what not.
Maybe not if you're the mayor's nephew.
Enforcement is a whole different issue. Do you want the Virginia police citing you with a reckless driving charge because you didn't use your turn signal? I can hear the howls of protests against the police, even though it was publicly elected "lawmakers" who wrote the laws.
And then, of course, you have the District Attorneys who release lawbreakers bail free, etc. For example, why should the San Francisco police arrest people who "only" stole less than $900 worth of goods? In fact, the SF police can't even arrest them. They cite them. And then the DA dismisses the charges.
The whole police argument smacks of NIMBY-ism. So long as law breakers are taking someone else's stuff, people don't want them arrested. But the instant the law breakers invade their own little space, these same people want instant police protection. Hilarious.
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Sure, to the degree that it might get people to more carefully consider who they're voting for.
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