Reply to "Is the radar jammer legal?"

Dave:

I have to disagree with you. Speeding does not endanger anybody necessarily; EXCESSIVE speed given the road conditions, driver ability, mechanical worthiness of the car, etc does. I don't think anyone here is advocating going 150 mph in a school zone. We just want to be left alone when we are driving at a perfectly safe speed given the road conditions, our ability, the mechanical worthiness of our car, etc.

In fact, I get pretty tense whenever somebody starts going on about how "Speed Kills". That is pure sophistry. As if the minute your vehicle exceeds some arbitrarily determined limit it will somehow automatically veer into the path of an oncoming school bus. Yeesh. These tend to be the same people that I am regularly pulling out of the ditch in winter because they thought that driving the speed limit on ice means they were driving safely.

- Peter