🚀 go-pugleaf

On Thu, 23 Jul 1998 07:49:18 -0700, Richard Berkeley <bummer@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
>Marc wrote:
>
>> And I go 20 in school zones marked at 20 (I'm the slowest car on the
>> road, but I go over 100 mph all the time in the city limits of Dallas.
>> I always use my signal, always come to a complete stop.
>>
>> I break one law.  I firmly believe that there is no one set speed at
>> which one becomes unsafe.  Under the correct circumstances, 200+ mph
>> isn't unsafe on a public road.
>>
>> Now I'll just sit back and wait for the flames, though they will try
>> and tell me that I'm advocating 200 in a school zone, and not in west
>> TX where I've driven for more than an hour without ever seeing a
>> single other vehicle with miles of visability and no entrances to the
>> restricted access road.
>
>No flame from me here.  I do the same thing but I break two laws here - speeding and
>reckless driving (since going 100 mph or above in California is "reckless driving.")

Do you have a cite for this?  I thought it was 80, but can't find any specific
speed in the code.

>In residential areas, I usually travel at 20 mph even though it's posted at 25 in my
>area and that's prevented me from rolling over kids with my 5,500 pound SUV (Isuzu
>Trooper Limited).
>
>However, once I'm out in the open, I usually let 'er barrel at 100 mph down the
>newly-constructed 73 highway in California (and have been doing that for a year - no
>accidents ever).  Nobody else uses this one since it's a toll road.  However, when I
>had my Audi (which I miss), I usually travelled at almost 130 mph going downhills.
>
>Oh, the glee.
>
>Richard
>

jg
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