Well, ok, ad homenim attacks are all well and good, BUT there is a good point to be made...
If you are driving on raods that are very over crowded (Washington, D.C. is my local example) there is no way to drive safely without ocasionally and suddenly accelerating. I drive at/under the speed limit due to some unfortunate experiences that my friends have had with the local peace officers, and consider myself a passable driver. When you are dealing with combination entrance/exit ramps that are all of 200 feet long with a constant stream of cars coming off and onto them, you have to accelerate to get into place safely. There is just no other way to do it, other than miss your exit.
That said, I don't think that speed limiters (I would say at 80mph) would be a bad idea... but acceleration is not antithetical to safe driving.
you're right, it does only apply to the gov't, but in an odd way... if your nosy neighbor breaks in and finds Bad Things, the evidence can be entered into court against you (as opposed to police, who wouldn't be able to enter the evidence). Of course, then you get to charge your delightful neighbor with B&E. Fun times.
actually, they'd loose all of them... that's what they're there for; a trip wire, to guarantee that the instant the North rolls down the US *has* to bitchslap them... and yeah, the soldiers there know it. Kinda twisted...
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Well, ok, ad homenim attacks are all well and good, BUT there is a good point to be made... If you are driving on raods that are very over crowded (Washington, D.C. is my local example) there is no way to drive safely without ocasionally and suddenly accelerating. I drive at/under the speed limit due to some unfortunate experiences that my friends have had with the local peace officers, and consider myself a passable driver. When you are dealing with combination entrance/exit ramps that are all of 200 feet long with a constant stream of cars coming off and onto them, you have to accelerate to get into place safely. There is just no other way to do it, other than miss your exit. That said, I don't think that speed limiters (I would say at 80mph) would be a bad idea... but acceleration is not antithetical to safe driving.
true enough. interestingly, VaTech also uses a similar program...
you're right, it does only apply to the gov't, but in an odd way... if your nosy neighbor breaks in and finds Bad Things, the evidence can be entered into court against you (as opposed to police, who wouldn't be able to enter the evidence). Of course, then you get to charge your delightful neighbor with B&E. Fun times.
actually, they'd loose all of them... that's what they're there for; a trip wire, to guarantee that the instant the North rolls down the US *has* to bitchslap them... and yeah, the soldiers there know it. Kinda twisted...