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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b][quote=Anonymous]Speed has nothing to do with good driving.[/b]

Give me a driver going 80mph but constantly checking their mirrors and with a good sense of their surroundings, over a person zoned out going 55 but only looking straight ahead.

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Haha. You do realize speed is a leading cause of accidents and the severity of property damage and injury/death in accidents, right? But you go ahead and continue to mentally justify your dangerous driving.[/quote]

Distracted driver is the #1 cause, and you can be distracted going 55mph or 80mph. Hell as a pedestrian, most of the people who come to hard stops at stop signs are totally distracted and doing it for the routine. I'd rather have an aware roller, than someone who stops at stop signs just for the sake of stopping.

The best thing anyone can do, is be constantly aware of their surroundings at all times - not just when they "need" to. [/quote]

Speed matters, drivers attention matters, and a bunch of other things like drivers skills, car capabilities, etc. [b]Of these, the speed is the only objectively verifiable measure[/b]. [/quote]

BS. It's quantifiable -- that's it.

Aware, in-control drivers don't get into car accidents without a malfunction in their vehicle.

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In my admittedly limited experience, but as a person trained in emergency vehicle operation, the vast majority of drivers dramatically overestimate their own skill and the handling qualities of their vehicles, particularly at speed and/or under emergency conditions. Further, the most skilled, experienced, alert, aware and fit driver can easily fall victim to a reckless halfwit in a barely functioning hooptie. 55 is low for the Beltway (when it is moving at all), particularly if a quota-shy police officer decides to write people for 56 (which they have the discretion to do).  I think 65-70 would be better most places. But what would the people running close to 85 now, in their wired-together jalopies with trash bag windows be doing then?[/quote]

Adding:  significant speed differential between vehicles on the same highway are very dangerous. And non-separate HOV lanes parallel to slow traffic thus extremely poor road design. Where do the cars in the leftmost regular lane swerve to avoid a rear end collision?  That’s right — the HOV lane. [/quote]

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