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Originally Posted by 19K3SS
My question is, despite what one driver thinks he's capable of, and assuming he then passes a test, isn't he still human, and has a day where maybe he's not quite as quick on his reaction time and then plows into a kid chasing a ball into the street in what used to be a 25mph neighborhood zone now going 145mph? The options you give are a bit childish, to give the option to keep speed limits meaning "I like to drive slow". Yes, I would like to see our country develop an Autobahn-type road at some point. But to say "no speed limits ANYWHERE" is a bit of a stretch.
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Hey how about this.... Its called liability. Accidents like that happen where kids are killed by cars going 24 mph in a 25 zone. When they do that they are liable to pay damages and face the penalties. The same would be true when they could potentially go 145. If they hit the kid they are gonna be screwed for the rest of their life so having liability creates incentives for people to use their judgement. A 145 mph zone would kick ass though... as long as its not in a neighbor hood. If its on a regular street and kids run out to get hit, its just bad parenting and they probably would have died in a 50 mph area too.