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Originally Posted by Xerxys
^^Instead of highways I should have said interstates. And the fact that you think that people who "think going any faster is silly" means you trust other people more than you trust the law.
I'll leave you with this ... many people know how to make a car move in straight line, few people know how to drive.
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No, the law needs to be what it is because of the fact you don't know who can and can't be trusted. The law needs to be safe. But there are absolutely more and less capable drivers out there. That means that there are absolutely drivers out there who can safely drive over the speed limit and know when it is and is not appropriate. The law can't know that, and so it needs to be the way it is because of that. But what the law should be for public safety has little to do with defining what is and is not safe. It's simply the best safeguard we have.