LOL Well its ok guys, just keep on speeding its fine, After all its your licenses/insurance/car wrecks and colostomy bags etc. Just make sure its not my car you drive into when you make the mistake one day please.
Just because you don't agree with the law does not make breaking it right.
Do you break other laws because there inconvenient or you dont agree with cartain aspects? Why not help yourself to the car you like? Why bother paying for it? What if somebody steals your car or property etc
Its a license to drive with terms and conditions attached that you agree to be bound by (Highway code, Road traffic act) when you sign it.
Are you as selective with your contract of employment? I bet not, what if your employer decided to honour all of the terms that suited them but ignored the ones they did not like? Say paying you and allowing time off? The principale is the same.
How about some 17 to 80 year old nutter kills your girlfriend/wife/partner/child and their speeding or driving innapropriatly at the time? How would you react to that? You'd say thats ok they can break the law because they though it was stupid? I think not.
As an ADI i can see both sides of the argument, I agree that the government 'Speed Kills' campaign is pants and seriously flawed, after all its not the speed that kills, its the muppets who think their capabilties exceed there abilitys that need educating in my opinion. After all if speed did kill then there'd be no drivers left on the autobans.
The problem is the the typical 'Urban Micheal Schumaker' wannabe gets himself into a situation that his limited 'lee7' skills can't get him out of. Then when he/she has an accident the speed becomes a factor and the higher the speed the more serious the outcome is likely to be.
Personally I would love to have some areas of the UK road network unrestricted either fulltime or during limited times of the day depending on the conditions, the trouble is that its fraught with problems not least that mechanical reliability and driver skills are not uniform and its just asking for trouble when you allow mixed traffic and wannabies on the same road.
I do think 80 is a more sensible limit for todays cars on the motorway with the driver aids and advances in vehicle technology but not all cars are equal. I cannot condone the speeding in 20's and 30's that regulary occurs as these areas are frequently residential and the terrible accidents that occur are just plain needless.
You could if you feel strongly enough campaign for a change in the Law.
Why not just cough up the cash, go to a track and learn to do it properly etc? And then do it legally or does the thought of actually having to pay for it and finding out your not actually as good a 'performance' driver as you think you are bother you all?
Oh and at least have the decency of not whinging about the points/fines and bans etc. Take it on the chin and smile nicely when you pay the fines
My 2p.
