Speed Limit Predators

The state’s justification for speed limits is always the same: “Speed Kills”. So let’s remove the appeals to emotion and other hysteria and sensationalism and examine that hypothesis with rational, logic and common sense.

Let’s consider the extremes, if speed kills in and of itself then anyone who ever orbited the earth in a spacecraft would be dead since they travel at about 27,000 mph. On the other hand, if speed kills in and of itself then someone going just 1 mph could drive over a 1000 ft. cliff and not be killed.

Let’s consider something more specifically in the context of cars like race car drivers and drag racers. If speed kills in and of itself then race car drivers and drag racers would all be dead. They all drive at speeds far and above “legal speed limits”.

As obvious as these examples may seem, they clearly demonstrate that speed in and of itself does not kill anyone. So how do we explain the discrepancy between the state’s justification and reality? The explanation is that there are many dependent factors that cannot be ignored that determine if someone’s speed is appropriate or not, speed in and of itself explains absolutely nothing.

Significant factors include:

1. Visibility – day or night, foggy or clear, raining, snowing etc.
2. The state of the car – new or old, good brakes or bad, lights etc.
3. The experience of the driver – inexperienced or experienced.
4. The state of the driver – old with poor reflexes, angry, distracted, tired, impaired etc.
5. The state of the road – old or new, narrow or wide, under poor repair, icy, slippery etc.
6. Traffic – crowded or open road, fast flow or slow etc.

A young, experienced driver with a new car on a wide open road on a sunny day may be able to safely exceed the speed limits and people do every single day. An elderly driver with slow reactions who can’t turn his head to check his blind spot, driving a 30-year-old car on a cloudy day would probably be wise to slow it down. The number of combinations of these factors are in the thousands and it’s impossible to determine the probability that any one of them will result in an accident.

These factors vary individual to individual since everyone is different, everyone is an individual. They also vary from situation to situation. Speed Limit ‘laws’ strip people of their individuality and treat everyone as if they are exactly the same and treat every situation as if it is exactly the same which is prejudicial and unjust. Speeding tickets punish people who have done nothing wrong, who have harmed no one, who have threatened to harm no one, they were simply driving at a speed faster than a number on a sign which is abusive.

Nor does the hypothesis of ‘Speed Kills’ make sense if ‘law enforcers’ regularly exceed the legal speed limits in order to catch up to those exceeding the legal speed limit. The legal double standard implies that even those making the laws and enforcing them don’t seem to believe the hypothesis but still enforce it on the public. That is tyrannical.

There is no rational or logical justification for speed limits that makes sense. The only explanation for speed limits is revenue generation by state agencies. Government institutions don’t produce anything, everything they have they have taken from someone else who did produce it. The concept of contact quotas among law enforcers and expectations that each law enforcer generate his share of the department’s revenues are public knowledge and drivers are easy prey. Everyone has to drive everyday so law enforcers hide behind billboards and under bridges during the day and in the middle of medians with their lights off at night, waiting to pounce.

When individuals are stripped of their individuality they are stripped of their dignity and their humanity. Speed limits are inhumane, tyrannical, prejudicial and unjust and benefit no one but the state.