Reply to "Speeding Defense?"

Man you Canadian have it rough up there ...and there is so much land you should have an AUTOBAHN with speed limits to match.

Ron
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Unfortunately, while we have some great driving roads, we also have a population that fervently believes "speed kills". It is a matter of cherished belief in Canada that a bored idiot driving a '74 Pinto with iffy brakes causing havoc by going 10 km/h below the limit is OK, but a competent, attentive driver who has invested in a mechanically optimized high performance vehicle is a public menace if they exceed the speed limit by any amount.

In Canada, we have 3,000 traffic fatalities per year and this causes the Safety Nazis to demand ever more draconian laws that take all the joy out of driving (instead of pushing for safer roads and better driver training, which might actually do something to address the problem). At the same time, we have on the order of 23,000 deaths annually due to preventable medical errors in our hospitals. No one says a damn thing about that, though, because our precious universal health care system is a sacred cow.

My answer is to try not to think about the lunacy too much lest I lose what little remains of my own sanity, and simply invest in a good radar detector. Then, if I pick up a ticket here and there, I simply look at it as just yet another tax I have to pay for the privilege of living in this lotus eating la-la land.