Raging_Bulls":5kvhkrme said:
Joking aside, I'm all for variable speed limits. There's nothing dangerous about doing 100+ on an empty motorway.
Really? Never had a blow out or a suspension failure then I take it?
I spent a good few years driving between very large trees on gravel at 100mph plus, and found it pretty easy until something broke. You are just a passenger from that point on. Now a motorway is much safer than the blind crests, car size ditches and stout trees of Kielder, but still pretty scary in a high speed spin or roll over.
As i said earlier in this thread, speed is not a killer in the right hands. Its driving standards that kill- I see plenty of drivers struggle to park in a car park space let alone handle a car at 100mph when a tyre goes.
Cars are so capable these days. I drove a nice Porsche a few weeks back and thought it didn't feel very fast. A glance at the speedo confirmed i was going rather fast indeed. My point is that modern cars lull you into a false state and encourage people to drive way beyond their personal limits. My guess this is a very large contributing factor to many many accidents.
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