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I don't condone or recommend high speed driving for anyone else but if the conditions are right I will pass the 220km mark a few times per yr.
Safe speed in my opinion is comprised of many variables...
My short jaunt on a flat empty familiar highway with 50 ft of lane and no intersections in a car designed to handle high speeds with new speed rated tires ranks better on the safe speed scale than almost all of the I-5 driving I experienced in California last week.
In one instance I was driving a new rental minivan with slushy handling (imho) from LA to San Diego and had to run 70-85 miles/hr to keep pace with the big rigs on either side of me in 5 lanes of traffic around curves and over hills etc.
Meanwhile other passenger cars were passing us from all sides with only a few feet of lane between vehicles and often only few car lengths from car to car... many of these were running over 100mph.
(I don't care how shiny your exaust tip is... a late 90's civic or similar with skinny tires at 90 mph on busy LA freeways is endangering others) It ran this way for close to an hour even though the posted limit was 65mph... the rigs at least should have been limited to 55 or 60.
What is safer... one Saab Aero exceeding limits on an open road or 200 mixed vehicles exceeding limits on 5 lane twisties?
Again... not condoning behavior for anyone else just raising questions for debate. Should the goverment limit all vehicles to a max speed? (what is safer at 65 mph a Saab aero in top tune or a neglected Taurus with bald $30 Walmart tires)
In a related topic: why do we need 300 HP tippy SUV's 400 HP 4X4 pickups etc. Everyone seemed to get around fine in the mid eighties when 140hp in a mammoth sedan was the norm.
Maybe we should all be driving 4 cly Saturns or Priuses or not driving at in urban areas at all where clean public transit is avaiable but under utilized.
I am interested in others feedback.
posted by 64.110.19...
, Wed, 30 Nov 2005 15:27:40
, Tue, 29 Nov 2005 22:21:24
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