"......However, there is additional research that shows that raising the speed limits does not increase the chance of car accidents. In a study conducted by the National Motorists Association Foundation, states that raised speed limits did not report an increase of traffic fatalities. In fact, these states showed the same, or in some cases, improved, fatality rates as states that did not increase speed limits. The department of transportation in the city of Mesa, Arizona conducted a study that demonstrated "no published research findings have established any direct relationship between posted speed limits and accident frequency," according to its website. Some industry leaders argue that driving at an usually low speed can cause car accidents just as easily as speeding can."

 

here is another fact for u

http://www.helpguide.org/aging/senio...en_driving.htm

 

more

http://www.superiorcarinsurance.com/...iorSafety.html

 

lol yea but where are the roads with no speed limits? They sure arent in Boston with all that traffic... Your going to tell me having a highway with no speed limit is okay in a suburban or city area? They're out in the middle of nowhere where theres very little traffic. Your really making a big deal about nothing. Even the autobahn with no speed limits is going extinct.. why? because theres too much traffic. So stop trying to justify it for no good reason. Look at accident statistics and insurance, why is insurance so much for us young drivers? Because we drink, drive and to stupid things like speed and race. You sound so ignorant its just best if you do go out and not wear a seatbelt and drive at 140MPH and hit something, you'll be doing humanity a favor.

 

Actually, now in California a cop can pull you over for not wearing your seat belt. "click it or ticket"

 

1. i don't drive 140 2. Increasing speed limit from 45 to 65 on the highway would not hurt

 

Actually 55% of the autobahn has no speed limits.
Kolyan or whatever you ****ing call yourself, get in your car, don't put on your seatbelt, get up to 100, hell even 50 ill do, and hit something head on. Then come back and tell us about it cause according to you, you'll still be alive and have no bruises at all since you didn't wear your seat belt. Go on do it champ.

 

according to me seatbelts save lives (again), according to me i don't like wearing one, according to me i don't know if you die or not when crashing at 50, according to me i did not die when crashed at 30.

 

WHy are you complaining? The NY State Thruway has had a 65 MPH Speed limit for years now. Theres places in Montana and out west in the middle of nowhere there the speed limit is 75.

And for your information not all highways can just have a high speed limit. Highways have a speed limit for a reason, and the city/police/state have no say in it, its the engineers who built the highway. The speed limit is usually 15% lower than the actual limit of the road. So before you go crying why cant I go faster, you sure can but its there for a reason.

The autobahn is built differently than any road here in the US. The actual foundation where the pavement is on is about 27 inches thick... almost 10 inches thicker than here in the US. So you have no potholes, just smoooooooth flat roads.

And if you had almost no speed limits or real high limits, you know half these cars out there would be falling apart everywhere they go. In Germany their inspection is EXTREMELY strict to the point where an oil leak deems your car not road worthy.

 

People are better drivers in Europe . . . period. I believe their testing process is much harder than ours too.

 

i agree with autobahn thing.

but some places here on Mass Pike have speed limit of 45, other places have 55 and 65. nobody drives 45, most people don't even drive 55 or even 65 in those 45 limit zones. the question is: why is it 45 on the straight highway with no turns?

and as i said before, when i got pulled over by a cop in one of those rediculous speed limit zones and asked him a question why it is so, he didn't know what to say and just let me go.

 

what about those places we have here in boston........speed limit is 40-45 on the road and all of a sudden around the corner for like 1/2 a mile it's 35, and of course there is a cop there getting you for driving 45 or 50

 

You should go to jail for posting this useless thread. I don't see how this would improve the maxima what so ever.

 

lock me up !

 

and u should defenatly go to jail for going 136 like u posted in one of the threads, u sick son of a *****

 

I'm really surprised that so many people are concerned about safety, when this whole forum is about making your max go faster, handle better, push it harder, run like clock work to bring out the max's full potential. Anyways...I thought this thread was about a annoying light? Not about speed limits, accident reports, physics, gun control, drunk driving, wishing death on people,.....I did enjoy the analogy compairing sex with no rubbers to driving without a seatbelt...very imaginative. It's time to let go of all this anger and hostility...and heal...lets heal people......we are the world...we are the children.....

 

this has to be some kind of joke. some aprils fool day or punked crap!

 

you call me sick and your the one trying to get rid of a safety feature.

 

........and as I said before

Besides in the tunnels and in work zones, show me where the speed limit is anything less than 55mph.

My 'proof' - http://www.mit.edu/~jfc/NMA/730CMR.html#speed

Where's yours?

 

"There is additional research the smoking does not cause cancer.............."

 

A person is responsible for his own actions. Shouldn't a person be prepared to get home if he's going to go out drinking?Two accidents this month.... although sad, is it more sad than the dozens or hundreds of accidents caused by 16-20 year olds? Is it more sad than the teenagers who died or killed other people?



If you're going to test people over a certain age (and it seems "81+" would be it) then I want more testing for people under a certain age (and it seems < 21 would be it).

 

Hmm, well, maybe THAT 1/2m IS ONLY SAFE TO GO 35!



And next time you see that and there's a cop sitting there, wave and thank him for keeping unsafe *******s off the road.

 

Someone lock this god damn thread....it's never gonna end. And it's far too gone to return to it's original point.

 

Dood dont be a moron, learn to love your seatbelt, I seen one of my freinds get seriously injured casue they werent whereing a seat belt. He said He doesnt like it because its uncomfortable. He was in acoma for 3 weeks and almost died

 

My seat belt light don't work no more. Eversince I change the gauge light, it stop working. And Yeah, I wear my seat belt everytime. Even, if it was a block.

 

my safety is my concern, going 136 is dangerous to others, u sick **** ! and i don't give a **** it you drive 136, but if you are planning on talking **** about me and my seatbelt, then i sugest u don't drive that fast.

 

I too love this feeling as I said in an earlier post of this thread.

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