(July 5, 2009 at 7:32 pm)Meatball Wrote: I read a study that seemed to conclude that speed limits in fact don't save lives, for the reasons I've already mentioned. If there were no speed limits, would you drive wildly out of control? A speed limit doesn't prohibit someone from travelling faster than a posted number, it simply punishes them if they are caught. Much like drug prohibition.
Oh fer fuck's sake!!!!
If a car is travelling at 40MPH it imparts nearly TWICE as much energy to the thing is hits if travelling at 30MPH ... what part of that doesn't make any fucking sense?
It the thing being hit is a child then at 40MPH it will almost certainly DIE, if at 30MPH it has a reasonable chance of walking away ... that is why we have speed limits.
Kyu
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