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In article <mrh2-1406951929560001@macsrule.dorm.duke.edu>,
Michael Hoeffner <mrh2@acpub.duke.edu> wrote:
>In article <3rnp33$hm0@news.duke.edu>, bcook@acpub.duke.edu (Brian Cook) wrote:
>> You can get your license revoked for speeding only by 15 mph?
>> This is crazy.
>> Are you sure he wasn't lying to you?
>
>Why is it crazy?  

At least in reference to interstate highways (which is where I think
the original poster got his ticket), its pretty crazy alright.  These
highways were designed 30 years ago to safely move cars of that era
(two-ton monsters with easy-lock drum brakes, pitiful suspensions, no
radial tires, no shoulder belts, let alone air-bags, etc) around at
speeds of 75 mph.  Now we have entry level cars that are perfectly
capable of safely cruising at 80 mph or more and we still have to
stick to 65 mph (still 55 mph in some states).

In regard to the stop-light incedent, I find that people tend to drive
too fast in residential/commercial areas because more than 20 years of
ridiculously low highway speed limits have conditioned people to
always drive 5-10 mph over the speed limit.  This is very unfortunate;
I'd agree that speeding 15 mph over a 15 mph speed limit in a school
zone is a doubling of the limit, very unsafe, and should be grounds
for a license revocation. However, doing 80 in a 65 is a speed that
the road is designed to carry, and only 23% over the limit..

Drew

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