Maybe they are irritated becasue they feel reckless speeding endangers their lives. Or maybe it is the rude and arrogant behavior exhibited by many "speeders." Often the speeders are the same people who tailgate, jump lanes at intersections, cut people off at ramps, weave throught traffic, etc. Persaonlly I've never worried about speeders on the open road. If someone wants to go faster than me, I sincerely want them to get on up the road so they'll be out of my way. I don't care if they get away with it or not. I drive my speed (usually 5 mph aboive the posted limit) and don't want the rigid limit enforced on me. However, if speed limits were actually enforced, I'd be OK obeying them. As it is in most jurisdictions, the posted limit is little more than a suggested speed. I do think it is wrong for the police to decide to spring rigid enforcement of the speed limit on an unsuspecting public. I prefer consistency.
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Don't count on it. Politicians can and do change their minds. I like having the higher speed limits. I am worried that the nanny elements in our society will manage to use some excuse (rest rate, fuel usuage, etc.) to reimpose draconian speed limits. Reckless speeders ( I am talking about people who are driving 15 or 20 over the posted limit) are furthering the casue of these nannies. I'd rather have uniformily enforced relatively high speed limits than often ignored, randomly enforced, low speed limits.
Sort of like the people who whine about left lane blockers and others who may (or may not) be violating the inconsistent tangle of KRETP Laws. Only difference I see is that most of the people who are offended by speeders don't harbutt the speeders on the road (except by driving around in a legal manner). The militants who want strict enforcement of KRETP Rules seem to be quite willing to harbutt people that they perceive to be violating these rules (harbuttment includes tailgating, flashing headlights, brigths at night, rude gestures, etc.). In fact that they often harbutt people who are not actually violating the actual rules.
I find it inconsistent that people are upset when one set of laws is enforced while simultaneously complaining that another set of laws is not enforced. Particularly when the other set of rules may not even exist, or not exist as they wish they existed.
Regards,
Ed White
