I am not kidding. I didn't say that the penalties should be harsher...just that in my opinnion it is worse to speed, drive irresponsibly, while sober and kill people, than to be drunk and do it. My reasoning is this...when sober you are completely in control of your judgement..there is no impairment whatsoever. When intoxicated it has been proven that your judgement is impaired by the alcohol. Now, am I excusing drunk drivers by any means? No...i take a firm stance on it and side more towards the on spot execution punishment for such offences.
Wow...Just curious how old are you? How many friends have lost in single car accidents? Have you ever had a deer or other large animal jump out in front of your car on an empty road? Have you partaken in any high speed driver training? Was the incident on a closed course? (I ask this again).
The only way that 90mph is safe is on a closed course as I previously said. Saying otherwise is completely stupid. (am i calling you stupid, no.) Your OPINNION of safe doesn't mean shit to anybody but you. If your speeding along at your supposedly safe speed of 90mph on an "empty" road how can you ensure 100% that there will not be another car coming in the other direction...turning into your lane from a side street? etc....you CANNOT say that anything above the posted speedlimit is safe...the speedlimits are posted for your safety. People are conditioned and used to traveling at certain speeds and their brains and bodies are simply not capable of reacting at higher speeds. Ask a race car driver if the transition from street car to his first race car was simple..its not. Unless you're Mario Andretti or Boris Said and your driving on Mid-Ohio Raceway or Laguna Seca your driving 90 mph is NOT SAFE IN ANYWAY! Unless you are omnipotent, which you're not, you cannot garuntess lack of interefence from anything while your are doing that.
This is not to say that I don't do the same thing! However there is a difference between acknowledging the risk and being aware of the dangers and becuase of this more apt to remedy a problem and simply proclaiming it not dangerous and whimsicly cruising around and nearly double the safe speed.
On the road, the open public highways there is no such thing as NON EXISTANT traffic, distraction, wildlife, potholes, scap metal in the road etc.
Imagine your cruising down the road and it is devoid of human and car...running your super safe 90mph you happen to notice a glint of light in the distance...then bam...its right under your bumper and you realize then its a sharp peice of metal fallen off of a truck. It takes out your drivers front tire pulling the car violently to the oncoming lane...you over correct out of gut reaction and careen off the road to your right and bounce over into the back of somebodies house...crashing through the back wall and into thier dining room where the family had just gathered for dinner...you just killed 4 yr old blond haired blue eyed susie and her dad.....
not dangerous huh? non existant you say?
you're gonna get a nasty wake up call my friend and don't post in my off topic asking for sympathy about your torn up car or your broken wrist.
