What’s a little extra 5 or 10 mph on the clock?
I mean, going the speed of traffic is safer than not. So yeah, it’s okay when everyone else is doing it.
Also if the law enforcement in the area lets it happen, what message is that supposed to send to your average single-loop thinker?
Let’s it happen? I regularly see the police where I live do the kinds of things they pull people over for; speeding, rolling stops, distracted driving, failure to signal etc.
Tough to maintain credibility when those charged with enforcement don’t follow the rules either.
That’s true where I live too, but the asshole drivers not in cop cars far outnumber the entire police force of my town. Every day I see someone run a red light, change lanes in front of someone without signaling, or do 35 in a 25 school zone. And they think that’s okay not because they saw a cop do it too, but because they see all the people around them getting away with it. The cops either don’t care or are too busy blowing their budget on nice gear to hire enough people to do the job.
Laws that aren’t enforced are Laws that can be enforced selectively.
Right you are. It’s part of the perennial conservative system of control: There’s an in-group the law protects but doesn’t bind, and an out-group the law binds but doesn’t protect.
In my experience, American roads are built to support much higher speeds than the speed limit is set. Going 10-20mph over the limit doesn’t feel particularly unsafe on the wide, straight roads.
On the other side, it felt crazy to drive the speed limit on (for example) the narrow, windy roads in Ireland. The limit there felt like a literal maximum, whereas in the US it feels like the minimum.
deleted by creator
