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Title: Speeding is Good for You
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Eric Peters Autos
URL Source: https://www.ericpetersautos.com/2017/08/16/speeding-is-good-for-you/
Published: Aug 16, 2017
Author: Eric
Post Date: 2017-08-17 07:10:04 by Deckard
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Speeding, like exercise, is good for you. It is lack of motion in both cases that ends up causing problems. This is no joke. First of all, “speeding” does not mean driving excessively fast. That is the shibboleth, the cliche, the tired and formulaic claptrap used to justify the roadside ritual of mulcting drivers almost at will – because nearly every driver “speeds” at least a little bit every time he goes for a drive. That is to say, he drives in excess of the posted speed limit – which is always set to ensure exactly that. Fish in a barrel. It’s odd that this fact – obvious to all – largely goes by without any raising of hands, if not pitchforks. Think of other laws that have turned more than half of the population into technical criminals or at least scofflaws. The 18th Amendment is an obvious example. From 1920-1933, it was illegal to drink alcohol in any amount in any state. That was the law. But most of the country ignored this prohibition for the obvious reason that it was ridiculous and outrageous. They became outlaws, but of a commendable sort. The Bad Guys became the Good Guys – and the reverse, too. Those enforcing Prohibition were generally regarded as dicks. Just as speed cops (and drug cops, another rant) are today. In the 1920s, there were speakeasies; today, we flash our lights at other cars to warn the drivers of a speed trap down the road. No one warns a burglar that the house he’s casing has a security system. Why is Smokey and the Bandit one of the highest-grossing films ever made? Think about this. Having a drink no more corresponds to drunkenness than “speeding” amounts to driving excessively fast. Which is why everyone instinctively flouts speed laws and – as with flouting Prohibition – feels no moral shame for having done so. This incidentally is particularly the case with regard to cops. Who, just like the Prohibition-era “prohees” – the government goons who were sent out to “bust” underground saloons – are the most likely to offend against these absurd statutes because they are more aware than most ordinary people how absurd they are and of course, they have the freedom to flout them with impunity. They know that “speeding” doesn’t kill nearly as effectively as being asleep at the wheel – which is exactly what obeying speed limits fosters. It is boring to drive the speed limit. You might as well take an Ambien. The results are the same – and entirely predictable. Especially in any car built during the past 30 years. Because speed limits are not merely under-posted, they are anachronisms. Unlike almost everything else around us, which has been on a fast-forward track since the dawn of the computer era, speed limits are totems of another time. We are supposed to be grateful for the fact that the 55 MPH highway maximum got repealed and most highway speed limits are now 70-75 MPH. But that is what they were back in the 1960s – when Ich bin ein Berliner and the typical car rode on a suspension not much advanced over farm machinery, with four-wheel drum brakes (no ABS) and bias-ply tires and no computers controlling anything. There was no Lane Keep Assist, no Automatic Emergency Braking. The steering was overboosted and sloppy. It required paying attention to keep the car on the road. Which people did, because there wasn’t much choice. This made driving not boring because driving required one to mind what was going on – particularly at speed. You were occupied by the task. People were better drivers in those days because one had to be. More than 50 years down the road, speed limits on the highways are back to what they were circa 1969 and most limits on secondary roads are lower. Ostensibly, this is for “safety.” In fact, it erodes it. Driving too slow is dangerous. A bored driver’s attention wanders; he begins to space out. Or decides to send a text – or check email. Why not? The car – at this point – almost drives itself. At circa 1969 or less speeds, a modern car is as under-challenged as Stephen Hawking would be if you asked him to figure what two-plus-two equals. The ridiculousness of the situation is that extreme. Cars have evolved, speed limits have remained static – or regressed. It is like seeing a guy walking down the streets dressed like John Travolta in Saturday Night Fever. Platform shoes, tight lycra pants, shirt open, chest wig, gold medallions. But at least our time-travel Disco Dude won’t get hassled by cops.
1970 speed limit 
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#1. To: Deckard (#0)
Stephen hawking is restarted.
I assume you meant "retarded"? Oh - the irony! Yes the irony of autocorrect.
No, I meant the irony of you calling someone else retarded. Stephen Hawking is an English theoretical physicist, cosmologist, author and Director of Research at the Centre for Theoretical Cosmology within the University of Cambridge. His scientific works include a collaboration with Roger Penrose on gravitational singularity theorems in the framework of general relativity and the theoretical prediction that black holes emit radiation, often called Hawking radiation. Hawking was the first to set out a theory of cosmology explained by a union of the general theory of relativity and quantum mechanics. He is a vigorous supporter of the many-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics. Stephen Hawking Hawking believes that if he fucks a monkey it will bear his kids. He believes that the spontaneous combustion of mud creates life. He is actually stupider then a retard. He is also a horrible person.
Really? He actually said those exact words? What you are really saying then is that anyone who disagrees with you about evolution is a "retard". Look up the meaning of the word "retard", OK simpleton? That makes me retard because I think evolution is rubbish. Our own solar system disproves evolution as in the theory of the formation of planets doesn't explain the planets and the moons in the system
OK,I'll bite. If evolution doesn't explain it,what does? In the entire history of the world,the only nations that had to build walls to keep their own citizens from leaving were those with leftist governments.
No it wasn't. It was illegal to produce, transport or sell it, except for sacramental wine. It was never illegal to drink it.
Well Pete, I think the almighty left a puzzle there for us, he probably said Hawking won't be able to explain his way out of this one, and of course, he offers no explanation. You see I take God at his word and if he said he did it...What mechanisms he used, well, he was able to do it much quicker than we could, it was all accomplished in a few days and he makes everything different, it's his signature
It if makes you happy to believe in superstitious mumbojumbo,I'm happy for you. This is America. You are free to believe any damnfool thing you need to believe to make it through the day. In the entire history of the world,the only nations that had to build walls to keep their own citizens from leaving were those with leftist governments.
You know that is the only explanation of america that makes any sense
You know that is the only explanation of america that makes any sense I consider it to be one of the major things that makes America so great. In the entire history of the world,the only nations that had to build walls to keep their own citizens from leaving were those with leftist governments.
modern car is as under-challenged as Stephen Hawking would be if you asked him to figure what two-plus-two equals.
#2. To: A K A Stone (#1)
Stephen hawking is restarted.
“Truth is treason in the empire of lies.” - Ron Paul
Those who most loudly denounce Fake News are typically those most aggressively disseminating it.
#3. To: Deckard (#2)
#4. To: A K A Stone (#3)
Yes the irony of autocorrect.
“Truth is treason in the empire of lies.” - Ron Paul
Those who most loudly denounce Fake News are typically those most aggressively disseminating it.
#5. To: Deckard (#4)
No, I meant the irony of you calling someone else retarded.
#6. To: A K A Stone (#5)
Hawking believes that if he fucks a monkey it will bear his kids.
“Truth is treason in the empire of lies.” - Ron Paul
Those who most loudly denounce Fake News are typically those most aggressively disseminating it.
#7. To: Deckard (#6)
anyone who disagrees with you about evolution is a "retard".
#8. To: paraclete (#7)
Our own solar system disproves evolution as in the theory of the formation of planets doesn't explain the planets and the moons in the system
#9. To: Deckard (#0)
From 1920-1933, it was illegal to drink alcohol in any amount in any state. That was the law.
#10. To: sneakypete (#8)
OK,I'll bite. If evolution doesn't explain it,what does?
#11. To: paraclete (#10)
You see I take God at his word and if he said he did it...What mechanisms he used, well, he was able to do it much quicker than we could, it was all accomplished in a few days and he makes everything different, it's his signature
#12. To: sneakypete (#11)
This is America. You are free to believe any damnfool thing you need to believe to make it through the day.
#13. To: paraclete (#12)
This is America. You are free to believe any damnfool thing you need to believe to make it through the day.
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