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Originally Posted by Fasterthanyou
Want to know what's gay... the speed limit itself. I don't blame the cops for giving the tickets and I don't blame myself for speeding. Why should a road that's dry and sticky, clear and well marked be 55mph in the summer and 55mph on an icy snow covered winters dusk with the sun shining in your face and off the snow? If it were me, I'd change the speed limits to be a little more flexible. Dynamic speed limits that state clearly 65mph dry and clear 45mph bad weather. I know that would just make a mess of the court system with traffic cases about the weather being dry and clear or bad... but for crying out loud I can't see how under 2 extream conditions there is 1 speed limit. Then there's the whole vehicle technology card I could play. Cars are built to go faster but also to stop faster. The average car's 60-0 distance has dropped dramatically so if it were me, the speed limits would go up. We should adopt a law that prohibits bad driving habits like tailgating or just start cracking down on THAT and less of the speeding violations. That's my ideal world, a utopia for the streets of NJ. But alas, this state is doomed so I'll probably end up moving somewhere that isn't full of bad drivers jacking up my insurance.
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The car's 60-0 distance has dropped, but I think it's more about the ability of a person's reaction time to be able to stop, given a certain speed.
1 mile = 5280 feet
If travelling 60 mph = 88 ft/sec
If travelling 70 mph = 102.666 ft/sec
If travelling 80 mph = 117.333 ft/sec
I don't know what average reaction times are for stopping... but just using the 70 mph speed (which is approx 100 ft/sec, to keep the math simple), If your reaction time is 1/2 a second, you've already traveled 50 feet. 50 feet is pretty damn far, in terms of braking distances, imo.
Just some food for thought.
~Joe