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Re: Unfair speed limits
Excerpts from netnews.rec.autos.driving: 8-Apr-95 Unfair speed limits by
Angelo_B.V.@euronet.nl
> Do people agree that it is unfair to have the same speed limit for different
> kind of autos ?
>
> For example, driving a BMW 750 at 140 km/h you can still be looking at the
> newspaper on the seat next to you. At the same speed in a Fiat Panda, your
> are playing with your life.
>
> So, why if you are so lucky to drive a nice car like a BMW, you have to
> behave like you are driving a Panda?
I do think that the speed limits on most roads are artificially low, but
what if some cars were allowed to go twice as fast as others? It seems
to me that that would create just as much of a saftey hazard as allowing
everyone to do 140km/h+ (or 88mph+). It would especially jeopardize the
safety of those in Pandas or similar, and then they would be the ones
who feel discriminated against.
> It seems to me that the law discriminate people having good, safe cars.
It would only make sense - most good, safe cars burn more gas than
econoboxes, thus making a country less economically independent. And
you know that a cop is more likely to pull over a Mercedes going the
same speed as a Chevy.
But where it hurts more is in paying for the insurance. I'm buying
a car this summer, and despite what my insurance agent said, it *will*
be a Saab. What my insurance did say, though, is that Saabs are one of
the most expensive cars to insure. "The turbo models?" I asked? "All
of them, though the turbos are about 20-20% more", she said. It seems
to me that if anyone should be promoting safe cars, it is the insurance
companies!
-DS
"Once you start down the "Aaarrgggghh! Aaarrrggghhh!"
dark path, forever will /\ -Chewbacca
it dominate your destiny." /~^\/\^/\
-Yoda / /`/^~\`~\ "65 2 slow." - DS
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