Why the asinine tag? Why does subby hate Darwinism?

GreenAdder: How the fark is Nevada broke? Don't people fly there daily to waste craploads of money?

Not recently.

Me thinks this is a joke.

I live in Germany and can drive as fast as I want on designated highways, so i'm really getting a kick out of this article.

/plus the pigs dont usually pull people over, just speed cameras - which you have programed into your navigation and are easily avoided

To be honest, I fully support this. I think, however, the fee should be cut in 1/3 and a battery of intelligence, general knowledge, and driving skill tests should be administered. You have to recertify every 3 years, and ANY moving violation gets you kicked off the special drivers list. DUI is a ban for life (among other serious offenses). At-fault accidents are a ban for life.

That way, excellent drivers have an affordable way to bypass the idiots.

Make the garbage pay to take itself out?

BRILLIANT!

So, instead of arresting the rich who break the law and letting them buy their way out of it they're going start allowing them to just buy a magic ticket?

//where can i buy my license to kill?

the vehicle has to be inspected but the drivers do not have to pass any test of their competence to drive that fast.

Perhaps they should look into high stakes wagering.

/Just trying to help

He estimates the plan would bring in $1 billion a year.

So let's see. At $25 a day, 365 days a year, He expects to average roughly 110,000 of these sold every day? Well isn't that.... optimistic. Still, even if they only sell 10,000 a day, that's $91.25 million a year....

Hmm... maybe he's on to something...

/I'd shell out for one if I knew I was going on a road trip or something.

I thought speed limits exist for my safety, not for revenue generation.

Go figure...

I guess this means that they've already given up trying to ticket all the 90 mph speeders.

Therefore, you can drive 90 mph now and they probably won't bother to chase you.

Once some cars have permission to go 90, everybody will get away with it.

As someone who drove 90 from Reno to Salt Lake last week, I really am getting a kick. I'm just surprised to learn that Nevada has a highway patrol.

DSanchez: Me thinks this is a joke.

But you're not sure because the idea is attributed to a politician.

Awesome.

/still no cure for left-lane squatters.

now now plz git ur farks str8: I guess this means that they've already given up trying to ticket all the 90 mph speeders.

Therefore, you can drive 90 mph now and they probably won't bother to chase you.

Once some cars have permission to go 90, everybody will get away with it.

Try reading.
First, vehicles would have to pass a safety inspection. Then vehicle information would be loaded into a database, and motorists would purchase a transponder.

Get in.

On one hand, I applaud his creativity. On the other, I am not a fan of his inability to apply basic math to his solution.

Breitbart?

No thanks.

...or perhaps Nevada could sponsor a race of death?

That there is some libertarian math.

They promised us flying cars.

The difference in safety on straight freeways between driving 70 and 90mph is negligible ...What is dangerous is driving considerably faster or slower than the traffic around you. Thus allowing some traffic to go 20 mph faster would probably be a bad idea.

Costs nothing and no trucks on Sundays:

That is really a good deal. A day at the track is expensive.

Now for $25 you get unlimited time on the largest track around!


sweeeet

ZAZ: PleasedToMeetMe

See: Does Nevada really need a highway patrol?.

Sounds about right. We certainly weren't the fastest car on the road, but most people were tooling along about 90.

Go Fast Turn Left: Don't you think that if anyone in state government were able to do math, most states wouldn't be in the trouble they're in?

You could have mathematicians for your elected officials, but if they're putting numbers that they pulled out of their asses into the equations, they'd still be wrong.

I'd much rather have liberal arts majors as elected representatives. Things would still be totally jacked up, but pot would be legal.

TheHopeDiamond: Make the garbage pay to take itself out?

BRILLIANT!

Yeah, but how many other people are going to be collateral damage?

If they put in some banked turns, I'm in.

dj42: To be honest, I fully support this. I think, however, the fee should be cut in 1/3 and a battery of intelligence, general knowledge, and driving skill tests should be administered. You have to recertify every 3 years, and ANY moving violation gets you kicked off the special drivers list. DUI is a ban for life (among other serious offenses). At-fault accidents are a ban for life.

That way, excellent drivers have an affordable way to bypass the idiots.

Sounds good, but can we make it every 5 years? 3 is a bit too often. People have to pay to get re-certified and that's not affordable.

Go Fast Turn Left: now now plz git ur farks str8: I guess this means that they've already given up trying to ticket all the 90 mph speeders.

Therefore, you can drive 90 mph now and they probably won't bother to chase you.

Once some cars have permission to go 90, everybody will get away with it.

From TFA, it seems like they have some kind of transponder that would say if you have permission or not to be speeding. If that's the case, then it's pretty simple to figure out if they have permission or not.

Personally, I'm all for this. Hell, if they had something like this for the drive from Durham to Petersburg on I-85, I'd pay for it for the five times a year I do that drive.

No doubt a transponder that reports your speed 24/7 whether you paid the $25 or not. That way they can just mail you a ticket whenever you break the limit.

Nogale 2010-09-07 08:14:08 AM

TheHopeDiamond: Make the garbage pay to take itself out?

BRILLIANT!

Yeah, but how many other people are going to be collateral damage?



Please. Little more than usual. Incompetent driving causes accidents, not someone going a little faster than you.
Stay to the right if it scares you.

NicoFinn: dj42: To be honest, I fully support this. I think, however, the fee should be cut in 1/3 and a battery of intelligence, general knowledge, and driving skill tests should be administered. You have to recertify every 3 years, and ANY moving violation gets you kicked off the special drivers list. DUI is a ban for life (among other serious offenses). At-fault accidents are a ban for life.

That way, excellent drivers have an affordable way to bypass the idiots.

Sounds good, but can we make it every 5 years? 3 is a bit too often. People have to pay to get re-certified and that's not affordable.

If you're voting for me in the next election, that's a firm yes, citizen.

willsomebody: now now plz git ur farks str8: I guess this means that they've already given up trying to ticket all the 90 mph speeders.

Therefore, you can drive 90 mph now and they probably won't bother to chase you.

Once some cars have permission to go 90, everybody will get away with it.

Try reading.
First, vehicles would have to pass a safety inspection. Then vehicle information would be loaded into a database, and motorists would purchase a transponder.

Oh I read the article. It's just that I didn't believe any part of it.

/ Some hair brain election spin.

I_Am_Weasel: So he expects over 100,000 speeders per day?

You aren't thinking like a politician.

FTA: First, vehicles would have to pass a safety inspection.

Probably at least a couple hundred bucks there.

Then vehicle information would be loaded into a database...

Can't forget the administrative fee(s).

and motorists would purchase a transponder.

Won't be cheap

After setting up an account...

Well of course there is an account set-up charge.

anyone in a hurry could dial in...

Calls billed at $2.00/min, please hold.

...and for $25 charged to a credit card, be free to speed for 24 hours.

ZAZ: Repeal the state 75 mph speed limit. Charge each county, city, and town a $50 annual tax on each speed limit sign over 40 mph and $100 annual tax on each speed limit sign 40 mph and below. Make even more money.

I think that would result in a loss of federal highway money. There are plenty of localities that could probably have unique traffic regulations if not for needing/wanting to comply with federal standards to be eligible for federal highway monies.

Pfff so what? Like the rich don't already buy their way out of the law. About time the little guy had a whack at it at a discount price.

How do we know this quote wasn't edited from 2 other non-related quotes when it recorded by a douche in a pimp hat?

Nuclear Monk: ZAZ: Repeal the state 75 mph speed limit. Charge each county, city, and town a $50 annual tax on each speed limit sign over 40 mph and $100 annual tax on each speed limit sign 40 mph and below. Make even more money.

I think that would result in a loss of federal highway money. There are plenty of localities that could probably have unique traffic regulations if not for needing/wanting to comply with federal standards to be eligible for federal highway monies.

Right.

Isn't Nevada the one who wanted to raise all the speed limits to 75 miles an hour about 30 years ago, only to puss out at the prospect of the feds pulling their funding? Ahhh... what a nice tight rein the states are on.