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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Darrin Drader" data-source="post: 2030952" data-attributes="member: 7394">Yes, there would be, because most people will never obey the speed limits. Suppose you have a freeway. The posted speed limit on that freeway is 60 MPH. Nobody on that freeway ever goes under 70 or 75 on that stretch of freeway. Its nice and straight, its flat, and there are almost never any accidents there that don't involve one person not checking their blind spot when merging into the other lane. Now you have an officer on duty who has a ticket quota to meet. He sits in an inconspicuous spot and starts radaring people. Fortunately the vast majority of people manage to spot him, so they slow down before he can get a reading on their speed. In the far left lane, you have a guy doing the same speed everyone else was five seconds before, who couldn't see the cop sitting there because of the semi in the right lane. The cop clocks him at 70 and gives him a ticket. That is a victim of circumstance, and crap like that happens all over this country on an hourly basis.  You know what they say about assuming. Actually my driving record is cimpletely clean. It isn't that I never speed, I've just gotten really good about spotting cop cars.  That wouldn't be a speed issue, now would it? That would be a case of someone not watching where they're going, or not having good enough control over their vehicle to drive safely at that speed. Speed is not to blame. The other driver, who apparently doesn't know his own or his vehicle's limitations, is. If he "came out of nowhere" maybe I wasn't paying enough attention to the other cars on the road, or maybe he's on drugs, or maybe he blew a tire. There are a thousand other variables other than speed that could play into the accident. Besides, with regards to speed, the best rule is to go with the flow of traffic. If he was driving 90 and everyone else on the road was going 70, then he's guilty of reckless driving - not because he's breaking some arbitrarily set speed limit, but because he's trying to go faster than the flow of traffic.</blockquote>

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