Raising speed limit to 80mph

laissez-faire · 19 Nov 2006 at 19:03

A speed limit of 80mph on motorways, would alter the bounds for prosecution to approximately:

Fixed Penalty at 90mph
Court Summons at 106mph

This is already what 'unofficially' some traffic officers work to in Hampshire from chatting casually with them after a few pints, but clearly not in Cumbria or Scotland! Time for national unity?

sam83uk · 19 Nov 2006 at 19:04

why cant we have no speed limit on motorways like in germany..

Dup · 19 Nov 2006 at 19:07

sam83uk said:
why cant we have no speed limit on motorways like in germany..

Because we don't pay enough tax :rolleyes:

Could you imagine the Corsa carnage?!

Gilly · 19 Nov 2006 at 19:08

There'd be too many deaths to start with if they abolished motorway speed limits IMO.

80mph is a start though.

Jez · 19 Nov 2006 at 19:10

sam83uk said:
why cant we have no speed limit on motorways like in germany..

Because you'd get idiots like me driving as fast as my car would physically go

If this happened in reality i think we would see a lot of young drivers driving stupidly fast, without the exeprience and without the suitable machinery to do so. Accidents would be much more common and much more severe.

Firestar_3x · 19 Nov 2006 at 19:18

Road network aint good enough to use a german like unlimited system, + the people on our roads are idiots.

sam83uk · 19 Nov 2006 at 19:20

germany has idiots as well ???

I say its up to us if we wish to risk our lives with high speed

jamoor · 19 Nov 2006 at 19:21

Firestar_3x said:
Road network aint good enough to use a german like unlimited system, + the people on our roads are idiots.

true, isn't the test and lessons for driving really tought in germany?

Gilly · 19 Nov 2006 at 19:23

sam83uk said:
I say its up to us if we wish to risk our lives with high speed

I don't care if you want to risk your life. Thats not what you're doing on roads though, you're risking other people's lives.

Jez · 19 Nov 2006 at 19:24

jamoor said:
true, isn't the test and lessons for driving really tought in germany?

I dont know about this but their autobahn system was designed from the ground up to take high speeds, ours wasnt. There is a very interesting megastructures episode (repeated reguarly on Nat Geo) about the construction techniques used on it, its a masterpiece in terms of the quality and thought that has gone into it.

sam83uk · 19 Nov 2006 at 19:25

Gilly said:
I don't care if you want to risk your life. Thats not what you're doing on roads though, you're risking other people's lives.

surely any kind of stupid behaviour can effect other people at slower speeds than at high speeds? unless your blatently bumping people from the rear or forcing them of the road from the side

wassap · 19 Nov 2006 at 19:28

I have done a bit of driving in germany, and tbh i dont think it flows any better than our motorways in reality.

You still get idiots pulling out into the fast lane.

Its nice tho when you are stood at the side of a service station and you hear porsche',M5, ferarri's etc at full chatter :cool:

wassap · 19 Nov 2006 at 19:29

Jez said:
Because you'd get idiots like me driving as fast as my car would physically go

If this happened in reality i think we would see a lot of young drivers driving stupidly fast, without the exeprience and without the suitable machinery to do so. Accidents would be much more common and much more severe.

Think is i do stupid things like that now, god knows how long i would last on an unrestricted motorway with my car.

v0n · 19 Nov 2006 at 19:30

Legislation proposers are trying to swing it the other way actually - the latest stupid proposal was to switch to metric system miles->kilometers without changing a single sign on the road - so 70mph would become 70km an hour, 30 miles would become 30km etc. "Win win" innit?

clv101 · 19 Nov 2006 at 19:30

laissez-faire said:
A speed limit of 80mph on motorways...

Would be a daft idea as people would tend to drive faster, resulting in increased fuel consumption, increased congestion, increased accidents, increased death, increased insurance claims and hence premiums, increased vehicle ware and tear etc etc.

Jez · 19 Nov 2006 at 19:32

wohoo said:
Think is i do stupid things like that now, god knows how long i would last on an unrestricted motorway with my car.

Precisely. Worryingly i do too even though my job relies on my license :eek:

sam83uk · 19 Nov 2006 at 19:35

would it not be good for the economy?

Puzzled · 19 Nov 2006 at 19:42

v0n said:
Legislation proposers are trying to swing it the other way actually - the latest stupid proposal was to switch to metric system miles->kilometers without changing a single sign on the road - so 70mph would become 70km an hour, 30 miles would become 30km etc. "Win win" innit?

44mph on the motorway?

Wow then nobody would ever die and children could play on the motorways again.

wassap · 19 Nov 2006 at 19:46

MonkeyMan said:
44mph on the motorway?

Wow then nobody would ever die and children could play on the motorways again.

Actually never thought of it like that.

Even Merlins armour plated badgers could come out and play safely

clv101 · 19 Nov 2006 at 19:51

sam83uk said:
would it not be good for the economy?

Which one of my points above would be good for the economy?