Try using the spell checker next time.  

Shall we take that as an affirmation that indeed, it would not bother
you if your vehicle had a speed limiter that cut in at 75mph (or
whatever the maximum legal speed limit in your neck of the woods) with
like rated tires as stock equipment?

No matter how hard people try, you can't outlaw stupidity. Would it
have made a difference if a limiter kicked in at 90?

Maybe we need to carry the "Onstar" concept a few steps further. I saw
a short story on the news last evening about how a stolen car can be
located with Onstar, and the horn and emergency flashing lights being
activated from afar. How about active elements imbedded in (or next
to) the road surface that communicate with your vehicle which will
prevent you from exceeding the posted speed limit? Good idea or bad?

David Jones
djones<at>LSidaho.com

Please don't go drumming up the theatrics about your 'years with the
police and fire depts'.  I've logged 16 years with fire/rescue, quite
a few of 'em as a paramedic.  I now work in an ICU at a local
hospital.
Teenagers do stupid things.  So do adults.  People die in slow speed
crashes all the time, running stop signs.  Others have a heart attack
behind the wheel.  They all had the rite (lets spell it correctly:
RIGHT) to die.  Who made YOU the moral authority to safe-guard
everyone else?
You have no need to excede the speed limit?  Ok.  So you are the one
person in the whole country that never speeds?  Never tips the pedal a
few miles over the limit?  Never pumps the go-pedal to get around
someone who may be running a bit too slow?
Makes you the rare one.  Personally, I like knowing I have the power
if I so decide to employ it.
I don't like someone deciding they have the right to dictate what I
cannot have, just because they think they are safeguarding me.
If I want that, I'll go to some socialist country.

    Greetings and Salutations...

    Although you have been taken to task by others for using
"rite" instead of "right", I prefer to think that you were using some
subtle humor and wisdom here.  From www.dictionary.com:
    P   Pronunciation Key  (rt)
n.
1) The prescribed or customary form for conducting a religious or
other solemn ceremony: the rite of baptism.
2) A ceremonial act or series of acts: fertility rites.

    For WAY too many folks in the world, their way of proving
how powerful and virile they are is to drive way over the speed
limit.  For SOME folks, the problem is that they are ignorant.  They
do not have a clue as to the forces involved in speed, and how easily
it can go out of control.  I hope that is why I was passed by SUVs
(some of which had the drivers chatting away on the phone) last
winter, as they blasted along at 60 MPH on the interstate, in spite
of several inches of snow, and, upwards of an inch of ice.
    Actually, I proposed, some time ago, that the states implement
Smart Card licenses, that would have an "upper speed limit" for the
driver, based on reflex and perception tests administered every
few years.   The vehicles could have slots that the license would
slip into.  The cops could set up with a radar gun that would
ping the vehicle, and, flag anyone that was driving "over the limit".
    needless to say, there are a lot of avenues for abuse here,
from the side of the drivers - with folks borrowing other folk's
licenses, to the authorities - setting up automated speed traps, to
the fact that this pretty well ignores "special conditions".
    Why DO we have speed limits anyway?  I suspect that the "main"
goal is to keep large numbers of citizens from killing themselves by
hitting a given stretch of road faster than is safe.   Now, the state
also makes a boatload of cash off folks that exceed the speed limit,
which is a negative.   I also suspect that, while in some cases,
the speed limit is an arbitrary number, in most cases is is the
maximum safe speed through an area, under bad conditions.   There
are a lot of curves and sections of road where the speed limit is
as fast as one wants to drive when it is foggy, or rainy, or there
is snow and ice on the road.   It is quite true, too, that one
can drive through the same section of road at anywhere from
10 MPH to 30 MPH faster than the posted speed limit when the
conditions are good (dry road, sunlight, etc).  Around here in
Knoxpatch, the posted speed limit on the Interstate through
construction zones tends to be 45 MPH.   To me this makes sense,
because there are large numbers of people working only a foot
or two from the traffic, and, lots of large pieces of machinery
moving heavy bits about.  It is an excellent chance for a slight
mishap to deposit a human, or a large chunk of rock/dirt right
in front of you.  Driving at 45 WAY increases the time one
might have to react, and, cuts the distance needed to stop by
a huge percentage too.  There is a good reason for that speed
limit, which makes it even more puzzling to me as to why folks
blast through the construction areas at 60 MPH.
    As for the other post about driving through Texas...
out in that area of the country, one can drive at 90 MPH
for hours and hardly see a change in the country.   I think
that the speed limit SHOULD be higher in those areas.
    In any case, sorry for rambling along, but,
I seem to be poking about this issue just now.
    Regards
    Dave Mundt