I literally removed my speed limiter today. Tuning is slowly becoming illegal as well. I will say I did not defeat any emissions systems in the process of tuning the car.
NTSB urges Mandate to Limit the Speed of new Vehicles to the Posted Speed limit.
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While it's probably not right, if you're only doing 8 over here it's unlikely that you'll get pulled over for speeding. Over that may be another story. I've never heard of any percentage they use for grace here.
With those who don't by new anyways, yes... but the peole who always by new will contunue to do so... it's also one step closer to self driving cars imo...
it's in the law here. it's officially in place to make up for inperfections in the detection equipment calibration: in other words, they can be 6% off.
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Other than it being illegal according to your state motor vehicle code?
That is a state though, not the Federal Government. The Feds dictate to the states not the other way around. The Feds do not collect money for violating speed limits.
The Federal government will threaten them with holding back highway funds for lack of enforcement and high death rates.
A million dollars is just loose change in someone’s pocket compared to the cost of enforcement or loss of highway funds.
The Feds can dictate speed enforcement nationally with one swipe of a pen, just as they do with EPA pollution requirements and Safety equipment in vehicles.
Just like those air bags, speed limiters would also reduce injuries and corresponding insurance rates. But most importantly cost free traffic enforcement of the law.
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It was you who presented the question as being "not being able to".
This implied eitehr by law or safety.
I gave you a valid counter example.
Now you misdirect .
I have you an example demonstrating that the limits we currently are imposing on our drivers are the consquences of considerations other than safety.
These kind of Red herrings and misdirections are precisely the tools the political classis uses, whem pushing laws and regulations on us, that are not in anyone's interest, except their own.
Just don’t know. every text and phone conversation you have is stored by the NSA. Every letter you receive in the mail is stored by the NSA.
Everything typed in social media by you is stored by the NSA.
Every search you do is stored by the NSA
However a search warrant is needed for them to access it if you are an American citizen IF they want to use it in court but if they don’t want to, hmmmm
Back to speeding though, speed limit or not? Do we make laws to ignore them?
I think a matter of time, maybe 20 years you car will allow you to only go as fast as the speed limit
I think this is a great idea. Similar to making roads narrower, which reduces speed, and makes the road safer. I’m a good driver, but it’s don’t trust everyone around me on a busy fast moving highway.
It takes some time to acclimate to high speeds. Traffic on the interstates in NJ cruise along about 80 mph. The faster cars are going 90 to 110. Posted limit is 65. It's unsafe to drive the speed limit in my opinion.
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I'm not misdirecting anything. You said:
I just pointed out that you decided that in your opinion conditions warranted breaking the law. The posted speed limit is a pretty inarguable something wrong with going 100.
And who are you and what did you do with palmermd?
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They don't store that much. They store the metadata that shows that the transmission took place. The don't record the calls. That's too much data. They'd have to actively be doing the traditional "phone tapping" to actually save that data. There's not enough bandwidth in the world to record every phone call that takes place. From my understanding the actual text data is still too much, but it can be accessed further from the provider, though the NSA does see that a message was sent.
Sure, lets have speed limits. The problem is laws only keep honest people honest. I don't drive illegal speeds in daily driving, but I didn't modify my car to only drive the speed limit. There's the proper time and place for it and a busy public road isn't the place for an exhibition of speed.
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I don't really care what they are protesting for or against, there are idiots for every cause and of every race waving some flag offensive to someone during a march or whatever. Have your protest, get your point across and then leave.
But once they start encamping on your neighborhood and city for weeks, and making it clear they aren't going to leave until they get their way, I think locking up their money is the nice way to help them decide to leave peacefully. In many countries that really do have a dictatorship, having their bank accounts frozen would be the least of their worries.
If you don't like the government or the rules around elections or how the parliament works, then get involved and get out and vote. And if you don't like what you get for governments after that, then either accept that's how democracy works and deal with it like adults, have reasonable protests, or leave.
I wish it were always that easy. Most of the time I run into these situations on two lane roads with no shoulder to pull off of. I am stuck driving with no place to go but forward. And yes on multiple lane highways I get out of the way. Not interested in creating an incident.
Germany doesn’t have an autobahn by every school and through every neighborhood.
The real speeds and miles traveled per vehicle are significantly lower in Germany.
This isn’t pro or con autobahn, just the reality that most Germans don’t drive 99% autobahn and when they do average speed is still 81mph, which I’m told is very slow in Texas
Germans have more common sense than Mericans , if a inter continental autobahn were finished in the US 30 seconds later this would happen as every rusted out beater with bald snow tires gets modded to go 200mph with broken tie rods
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Doesn’t matter….
Money is money…
1 million dollars was a lot to that city… and they got it didn’t they…
You do t think Hopewell didn’t want that money ???
Of course they did…
Using a federal interstate highway to do it…
The FBI or ATF ain’t pulling over speeding people on the interstate system.
Been a while but IIRC the speed limit west of Houston is like 80 maybe 85.
Old enough to remember when the national maximum speed limit was 55MPH. A bad idea that took way too long to be done away with.
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