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September 22, 2013, 03:27:36 PM
#33
Today's driving was yesterday's speeding.  Today's speeding will be tomorrow's slow driving.

what's your logic?

speed limits were about 65 some places; reduced to 55 for 'oil crisis' and returned to 65 after

maybe texas is the only one to break the mold at 85mph texas speed limit:
http://www.nbcnews.com/video/nightly-news/48933928#48933928
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September 22, 2013, 03:26:19 PM
#32
Today's driving was yesterday's speeding.  Today's speeding will be tomorrow's slow driving.
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September 21, 2013, 11:51:51 PM
#31
We are being extorted. The safety is not very much an issue.

Efficiency is being sacrificed for revenue.

The quicker cars get off the road the less traffic is ON the road at one time meaning more congestion
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September 21, 2013, 11:08:00 PM
#30
"Speeding" is an arbitrary and capricious infraction. If someone's going to drive recklessly, they will. If their recklessness causes actual injury, there are immediate and long-term remedies for that.

Ridiculous. Yes, let's provide a remedy after someone is killed. Do you juggle knives in the presence of newborns until something unpleasant happens?
Why have cars at all?  Lets go back to walking everywhere.  Shit while we are at it airplanes are used by terrorists lets get rid of them too.  And boats sink all the time killing helpless little babies.  No boats for you.  Hmm what other technological innovations can we roll back to save a few while making life miserable and dangerous for the many.  When my knife juggling cuts my newborn he'll die while I have to drag him in a barrel to the hospital but at least we won't have any speeding accidents.  Woot!

Well driving instead of walking is done because driving is faster. Speeding instead of driving is just fun.

The problem is Police in the US and countries like the US extorting money out of this victimless crime.
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September 21, 2013, 10:56:36 PM
#29
"Speeding" is an arbitrary and capricious infraction. If someone's going to drive recklessly, they will. If their recklessness causes actual injury, there are immediate and long-term remedies for that.

Ridiculous. Yes, let's provide a remedy after someone is killed. Do you juggle knives in the presence of newborns until something unpleasant happens?
Why have cars at all?  Lets go back to walking everywhere.  Shit while we are at it airplanes are used by terrorists lets get rid of them too.  And boats sink all the time killing helpless little babies.  No boats for you.  Hmm what other technological innovations can we roll back to save a few while making life miserable and dangerous for the many.  When my knife juggling cuts my newborn he'll die while I have to drag him in a barrel to the hospital but at least we won't have any speeding accidents.  Woot!
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September 21, 2013, 10:36:36 PM
#28
What happens if I don't pay my traffic tickets? (extortion money)

let's find out!:

https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/should-i-pay-my-traffic-tickets-299187
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September 21, 2013, 10:36:15 PM
#27
First thing that comes to mind is, how would an officer know who has the speeding license and who doesn't?  If he has to pull everyone over who speeds to make sure they're doing right, it would defeat the purpose of the license; would the one with the speeding license need a custom license plate?  If so, how might we secure these plates so that people without proper training wouldn't steal them?  Or perhaps steal them and sell them to make a profit.  And even then, it's difficult to read them when you're going fast.

Perhaps a speeding-only lane would be more appropriate, where there is a minimum speed limit; maybe something like the autobahn.  But I don't think that'd ever happen in America, as tickets of any sort are a great source of income for any city.  Just the other day I paid off a ticket of 350$ for expired inspection and failure to produce my DL, and I have no idea how expensive speeding tickets are but I'm certain they're nothing to fuck around with.  When you make money by imposing a set of rules, it's hard to reason against it, even if it's better for people to not have the rule.  When you're in the business of waiting for people to fuck up, you generally like to keep that business going strong, preferably by imposing as many laws as you'll get away with.  Not saying something like this wouldn't be possible, but, unless there's money to be made, it's pointless.

So that would mean, if we figured out how we can get these speed licenses to work, that the classes you'd take and the fees you'd pay to get a speed license add up to, say, a year's worth of speeding tickets.  To ensure this revenue, you would impose a law that stated, "You must renew your speed license yearly" or however long you want, and then charge a premium for renewing, which would be a quick and speedy process, with the added bonus of being much more expensive than is actually required to renew the license.

This brings up my idea; the speeding license has to replace all revenue from speeding tickets.

How many tickets a year does the average person get? 1 every 2 years? have people pay whatever price per year to keep the 'speeding' license and that's all the state should want; the extortion money
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September 13, 2013, 02:42:19 AM
#26
Speeding tickets are extortion: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2BKdbxX1pDw

Good timing, my friend just liked this on Facebook.

I think this is what he referenced at about 10 mins: http://www.findthatpdf.com/search-7231383-hPDF/download-documents-speed_review_report.pdf.htm
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September 12, 2013, 10:40:45 PM
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September 12, 2013, 02:31:58 PM
#23
"Speeding" is an arbitrary and capricious infraction. If someone's going to drive recklessly, they will. If their recklessness causes actual injury, there are immediate and long-term remedies for that.

Ridiculous. Yes, let's provide a remedy after someone is killed. Do you juggle knives in the presence of newborns until something unpleasant happens?
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September 12, 2013, 12:51:40 PM
#22
Speeding tickets are extortion: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2BKdbxX1pDw
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June 26, 2013, 07:02:42 PM
#21
"Statistically, black men are more likely to commit violent crime & must be stopped &/or punished."

Stealing that...

http://twitter.com/TheButterZone/status/350026848266240000
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June 26, 2013, 10:08:52 AM
#20
Why should there be a licence in the first place?  Regulating the speed i drive reeks of pre-crime measures.  The rationale behind enforcing the speed limit goes something like this:  By driving faster than the set limit, you are endangering others. You may have never hurt anyone or damaged their property, but statistically, there is a chance that you will.  Therefore you must be stopped &/or punished.  Huh  This isn't much different from saying "Statistically, black men are more likely to commit violent crime & must be stopped &/or punished."
Of course, +1 to everyone pointing out that this debate is as practical as arguing for the moon to be remade from cream cheese -- decide what you want, it'll never happen.
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June 26, 2013, 02:29:12 AM
#19
"Speeding" is an arbitrary and capricious infraction. If someone's going to drive recklessly, they will. If their recklessness causes actual injury, there are immediate and long-term remedies for that.
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June 25, 2013, 12:03:43 PM
#18
Entertaining the whole shuffling of chairs on the titanic seems fairly pointless. Should kids in government schools be allowed to do X or Y, should public libraries ban this or that, should speed limits on government roads be raised or lowered...

When is the last time there was any great debate whether or not McDonalds should bring back the McRib or whether Starbucks should call their large drinks a large?

Privatize the roads. QED
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June 24, 2013, 11:52:23 PM
#17
no free human should need to ask permission of a government
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June 24, 2013, 04:29:00 PM
#16
One must first ask whether it is necessary for having a government regulate that. People still need insurance and without government the insurance companies would want to have some way of assessing an individual's driving skills. Now someone without a license pays more for insurance than someone without one (at least in my country). Getting a driving license doesn't require much skill in most countries, if insurance companies would deal with assessing the drivers' skills without current government regulation (maybe in cooperation with some of the better companies that now give driving lessons) they could do so in a more rigorous manner than the government does with their 'driving' licensure and better adjust the insurance rates depending on a driver's actual skills.
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June 21, 2013, 09:28:59 AM
#15
All you need is one of these.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LzEOHNmfa_0
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June 20, 2013, 11:52:45 PM
#14
In Korea, there is a speed camera ever 2km anyway. Being "watched" is a daily part of life. It'd be better to be watched to make sure you're paying your dues than to fine you for driving WELL imo.

Sounds like you're all set to get this thing under way then Tongue  I don't have any hope of this happening soon in America but you could pull it off.
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