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What does the code say? Are you the police, prosecutor?[/quote]

[i]Section 21-801.1 - Maximum limits
(a) Unless there is a special danger that requires a lower speed to comply with § 21-801 of this subtitle, the limits specified in this section or otherwise established under this subtitle are maximum lawful speeds. A person may not drive a vehicle on a highway at a speed that exceeds these limits.[/i]

There's a common belief that the posted speed limit is the target speed, but it's not, it's the [u]maximum[/u] lawful speed.[/quote]
And what’s the penalty for exceeding the speed limit?[/quote]

I don't get your point here. Is it that because there are generally small and infrequent penalties for exceeding a road's maximum speed limit that we should accept incomplete mastery of a car's most basic functions?[/quote]
Huh? You have said a lot of things. I am just trying to understand what you are saying.

You say that "we should accept..." but your preference is no compatible with the existing laws and their enforcement as they currently are. We are a country of laws and have people who are responsible to enforce those laws. If you want to change those laws, then please organize people and lobby your elected officials. Thankfully our democracy is not beholden to your whims and yours alone.[/quote]

I do not think you're actually trying to understand what I'm saying, and a dead giveaway was your condescending explanation of the democratic process. If your rebuttal to the normative statement "drivers who cannot maintain 20 miles per hour on a downward grade shouldn't be allowed to drive" is the positive statement "the penalty for exceeding the speed limit is not revocation of one's license," then you're neither as clever as you think you are nor are you approaching this conversation in good faith.[/quote]

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