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Re: Solve speeding by limiting cars!



In <488krc$t9b@charm.magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>
eglamkow@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Ed Glamkowski) writes:

>cause there are times when the average citizen does 
>have legitimate reason to travel at speeds above the
>speed limit - e.g. you are driving to work and someone
>in your carpool has a heart attack - wouldn't you like
>to be able to get to the hospital as quickly as possible?

The original poster's point was that the law clearly says that you must
never go above the speed limit.  Of course there are hardship cases,
but the THE LAW IS THE LAW!!!  Having a heart attack does not justify
breaking the law.  The guy should have eaten fewer french fries etc.,
and avoided the whole mess in the first place.

Or, if you think that heart attacks are really that serious, then you
should get organized and change the law, so the speed limit is high
enough to take people to the hospital.  Or we could have two posted
speed limits, e.g., 'normal 55, heart attack victims 65'.  (In some
places three, because there would be a third one for trucks.  And maybe
a fourth one for trucks with heart attack victims.)

But until the law is changed we are supposed to strictly obey it!
-- 
Rahul Dhesi <dhesi@rahul.net>
"please ignore Dhesi" -- Mark Crispin <mrc@CAC.Washington.EDU>


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