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  • magic_smoke@links.hackliberty.org
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    2 months ago

    That sounds like a really bad idea. There are plenty of legitimate reasons to go over the limit situationally.

    Especially when other drivers could potentially put you in harms way that you otherwise wouldn’t be able to evade.

    Also what if you need to rush to the hospital and don’t have time for an ambulance? Not great but better than someone dying because they didn’t get attention in time.

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      2 months ago

      I really think you are missing the point here. You say overspeeding may save you, which i think is a very theorical and not frequent occurence but ok, for the sake of argument let’s allow 20kmh above the maximum speed limit, in my country that would be 150kmh, enough to get out of dangerous situation, still way bellow what modern car can do. And you really dont want to go above this kind of speed in urban environments if you’re not a trained professional. Speed limit exist for a reason which extends beyond “when you agree with them” raming in another car and transforming a 1 people emergency into a multiple people one is not a risk we should consider acceptable.

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        2 months ago

        I agree that there’s rarely a good reason to speed. However, most speed limits are fairly arbitrary. Some are too fast, some are too slow.

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          2 months ago

          And the individual driver is not the arbiter of that. Just because someone feels the speed limits are wrong doesn’t justify speeding