Police Speeding 832

Geoff Lane

So what happens if one vehicle a. is travelling inapropriately slowly for the conditions and another vehicle b. inapropriately fast. In this case is it better for vehicle c. to travel inapropriately fast or inapropriately slow or at some compromise speed? Given that conditions include the inapropriate speeds of vehicles a and b.

Often, the speed limit is inappropriately fast. For example, in a

Being sat in a car has a risk, being sat in a car and travelling at speed is riskier.

I am sat in a wheely chair doing 0 mph would my risk increase if I accelerated the wheely chair up to an arbitrary value like 134.2837654mph? Let me guess its an inapropriate speed for a wheely chair so its dangerous. But its not the speed thats dangerous its the inapropriateness thats dangerous.

Only if the people approaching are not watching where they are going, what arbitrary figures do you recommend for people who are not watching where they are going?

Oh come on, this is sheer lunacy. No speed limits drive at whatever you feel is safe to you at the time?

You just want to drive fast dont you.

Where does this urge to rename speed limit to "speed limits are arbitrary values" come from?

Is inapropriate speed, speed?

If youre tailgating then by definition youre going too fast because you've caught the slower moving vehicle which you should have been aware of and modified your speed accordingly. Of course speed is an easy metric to gain, how are you going to rate aggressive driving, outbursts per hour?

I'm sure that many consider speed cameras perfectly safe and appropriate, a point of view borne out by thousands travelling past such speed cameras daily without incident.