Entertainment Weekly recently did a list of 25 things that bug them. Since this has been in part a frustrating day, I figure now is as good a time as any to do the same. I don’t have 25, but……

There used to be no upper speed limit in Montana. They cited based on the basic speed law.

I used to drive at 90 and 100 MPH all the time on the interstate. I was never cited even with state Highway Patrol passing me when doing those safe for the conditions speeds.

Then the pencil pushers enacted speed limits. Guess what happened?

The accident rate skyrocketed. Speed Limits are designed for one thing, revenue generation.

ScottyDog on July 5, 2007 at 12:06 PM

I used to drive at 90 and 100 MPH all the time on the interstate. I was never cited even with state Highway Patrol passing me when doing those safe for the conditions speeds.

Then the pencil pushers enacted speed limits. Guess what happened?

The accident rate skyrocketed. Speed Limits are designed for one thing, revenue generation.

Nobody can say what an absolute safety limit is…you have to rely on your own judgement as a driver for determining your own limits, adjusting for your experience level and your equipment. The natural consequence of that is that you don’t determine what the limits are for anyone else because there’s too much you don’t know about them.

James on July 3, 2007 at 2:57 PM

That’s valid all the way up to the point of someone who has no ability to judge where their personal or vehicular limits are, at which point operating too close to your own allows them to put them AND YOU at serious risk. The argument, so commonly made, that only you know how fast you can drive safely, falsely presumes that you are operating in a vacuum which doesn’t exist.

I was stationed in Memphis, TN for several years. While the drivers there aren’t quite the worst in the nation, they provide a broad array of challenges. I put it this way: The best way to stay safe on Memphis highways is to look around at the other vehicles near you, decide which of them and what move could cause you the most trouble, and then watch for it, because it is imminent. This is something you CANNOT do if you are operating close to your own safety limit, and it only takes once.

So do you just draw a big circle in the air for women that speed ?

Umm..how can I put this nicely….the little pinky means the guy has a little thingy…the circly drawn with your fingers (aimed at a woman) means she has a large..umm…coo-coo.

Good thing the boss didn’t get you the iPhone, eh? :o)

Just to make one thing clear…If my soon to be ex employer brings one of those things in one day and expects me to do the integration it to his computer and e-mail, I’m on a flight to California the very next day to put a foot up Steve Jobs’ backside…After 4 new blackberries in four years, I’ve had it.

If you each stay in your lane, there’s no problem. Did any of the ‘jerks’ ever cause an accident? Different vehicles are safe at different speeds. CurtZHP’s Escort probably doesn’t have the same handling limits as your car, and your car might not have the same handling limits as my car. I might have tires more suited to gripping wet pavement on my car than you have on your car, but you may be more experienced at driving in adverse weather conditions than I am. Nobody can say what an absolute safety limit is…you have to rely on your own judgement as a driver for determining your own limits, adjusting for your experience level and your equipment. The natural consequence of that is that you don’t determine what the limits are for anyone else because there’s too much you don’t know about them.

James on July 3, 2007 at 2:57 PM

You have a point about different car designs. Where your fatal error is, is that you have less reaction time when someone else makes a mistake.

uh, why? you must really love that car. :)

pullingmyhairout on July 3, 2007 at 2:05 PM

It’s cheaper to keep it running than make payments on a new one. Still beats walking!

Whatsmore, I’ve never had any complaints about my manhood and I routinely enjoy the bay area’s mountian roads at a brisk pace. This PSA will fail miserably because it will give guys with decent rides and nothing to prove, something to prove. How about advertising a *track day instead?

(*The “hooning” in this PSA is also generally also reserved for abandoned industrial complexes, open fields, backwoods logging roads, and/or track days.)

I think that’s British.

It says at the other end of the link that it’s Australian. It certainly doesn’t look like Britain.

Which would make it even funnier because their speed limits are very, very low

Not true: 70mph on motorways and ‘dual carrigeways’, 60 on ’single carrigeways’ (including farm tracks with nowhere to pass!), and 30 or 40 in most built-up areas.

their enforcement is insane.

You have a point there, but it varies from place to place.

You just had to go there, didn’t you….

heatherrc77 on July 3, 2007 at 12:56 PM

Bwahahahahaha….

It just doesn’t explain me…. :-p

I drive on I-81 several times a year for hundreds of miles

License, registration, and proof of carbon offsets, please.

Whatever works. I drive on I-81 several times a year for hundreds of miles, and when its raining, and there is an 18 wheeler in front of and one behind me, I don’t appreciate some jerk whipping by at 90 mph.

If you are sharing the road with me, I need you to obey the speed limits for my safety.

VolMagic on July 3, 2007 at 2:40 PM

If you each stay in your lane, there’s no problem. Did any of the ‘jerks’ ever cause an accident? Different vehicles are safe at different speeds. CurtZHP’s Escort probably doesn’t have the same handling limits as your car, and your car might not have the same handling limits as my car. I might have tires more suited to gripping wet pavement on my car than you have on your car, but you may be more experienced at driving in adverse weather conditions than I am. Nobody can say what an absolute safety limit is…you have to rely on your own judgement as a driver for determining your own limits, adjusting for your experience level and your equipment. The natural consequence of that is that you don’t determine what the limits are for anyone else because there’s too much you don’t know about them.

Whatever works. I drive on I-81 several times a year for hundreds of miles, and when its raining, and there is an 18 wheeler in front of and one behind me, I don’t appreciate some jerk whipping by at 90 mph.

If you are sharing the road with me, I need you to obey the speed limits for my safety.

VolMagic on July 3, 2007 at 2:40 PM

Your right, butt-heads that speed excessively are real safety hazards, but advising people to give the pinky wave is likely to get the “pinky waver” shot these days. So… once again only the dumbest ideas are promoted.

Almost everyone has cell phones these days, just call the cops on speeders… and don’t be waving fingers, or at least do so at your own risk.

If you are sharing the road with me, I need you to obey the speed limits for my safety.

Those dudes are DEFINATELY compensating for something.

As far as the clip goes, do I now have to get a radar detector for pinky wavers?