One thing to point out, though, is the fact that the car does not decelerate due to this, it mearly cuts the flow of gas to the engine, thus causing the car to slow gradually, as if the accelerator was released - this has nothing to do with braking. In fact, if this were to occur when you hit a patch of ice, you more than likely will have a BETTER chance of not losing control since you are no longer spinning your wheels on the ice.
So how do you know when you are endangering others? If you are driving down the road at 160 mph, what are your reaction times going to be? If there is a problem how much time do you have to respond to it before you could hurt someone else? Let's imagine you are driving down the road, BANG - you have a blow out, lose control, and smash your new Viper into the Honda Civic coming in the opposite lane actually obeying the speed limit. Tell me how you are going to avoid this. In many cars, and with new tire technology it is possible to retain control of your vehicle when you have a blow out at low speeds (like the speed limit). You have just endangered MY life if I happen to be the driver of the Honda Civic. You may counter that it is a vacant road. How do you know it is vacant? How can you guarentee that no one will be coming the other way, or be in your lane as you come driving up on them? There is no situation you can pose that will remove all chance that you MAY somehow hurt another person - unless you actually own the property you drive on, but in that cse there is no speed limit anyways.
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One thing to point out, though, is the fact that the car does not decelerate due to this, it mearly cuts the flow of gas to the engine, thus causing the car to slow gradually, as if the accelerator was released - this has nothing to do with braking. In fact, if this were to occur when you hit a patch of ice, you more than likely will have a BETTER chance of not losing control since you are no longer spinning your wheels on the ice.
So how do you know when you are endangering others? If you are driving down the road at 160 mph, what are your reaction times going to be? If there is a problem how much time do you have to respond to it before you could hurt someone else? Let's imagine you are driving down the road, BANG - you have a blow out, lose control, and smash your new Viper into the Honda Civic coming in the opposite lane actually obeying the speed limit. Tell me how you are going to avoid this. In many cars, and with new tire technology it is possible to retain control of your vehicle when you have a blow out at low speeds (like the speed limit). You have just endangered MY life if I happen to be the driver of the Honda Civic. You may counter that it is a vacant road. How do you know it is vacant? How can you guarentee that no one will be coming the other way, or be in your lane as you come driving up on them? There is no situation you can pose that will remove all chance that you MAY somehow hurt another person - unless you actually own the property you drive on, but in that cse there is no speed limit anyways.