Are we talking about changing the limit to relativistic speeds? Because appearing to increase mass isn't the same as simply getting fat.

Is this going to be another thread in which people going the speed limit are the ones who are a threat to everyone on the road because everyone apparently has a right to break the law?

Morons

GAT_00: What an interesting way to cover screwing up changing to your alt.

I didn't screw up, I was making a joke.

Yeah, a joke. That's the ticket, see.

Well, it would reduce the time it takes to get from McDonalds, to Burger King, to Taco Bell, to ect...

This is ridiculous. Pushing down the pedal has to burn SOME calories, so the harder you have to push it down, the thinner you'll get. Raise the farking speed limit to 4000 MPG and you'll have a nation of trim hotties and hunks.

/science!

The average driver is far below the skill (and attention) level to handle their vehicle at current posted speed limits, in the rare cases they are obeyed. Raising them is not needed. While faster speed limits would allow some of the weaker links to be removed from the herd, sadly they rarely take out only themselves when they go.

The massive influx of interactive technology into newer vehicles, along with things like cell phones, smart phones, tablets, etc doesnt help either.

Your car is not a restaurant, phone booth, make-up counter, etc...put that crap down and drive.

Worst incidents Ive seen, both women I might add...reading a newspaper on a curvy 6 lane road during moderate traffic, and reading a novel, placed on top of the steering wheel, on the interstate...doing 45 mph while all other traffic was going 70 or more.

As insane as right wingers are with their nuttiness, I hope we don't forget the left wing nuttiness that allowed them to come into power.

It is routine for left wing nut jobs to use fake or bad science to try to force their way into people's lives. They turned AIDS research into a fiasco that will probably go down as one of the biggest money wasting clown shows in modern medical history by wrapping it all up in gay rights politics.

They continuously use faulty science and fake data in a desperate attempt to link pornography to violence. No matter how many times there proves to be no link they refuse to accept it and insist it exists.

Universities are rotten with this kind of femi-nazi politics based more on their crazy belief system than anything else.

Sultan Of Herf: Your car is not a restaurant, phone booth, make-up counter, etc...put that crap down and drive.



Disagrees

I'm fat and I've never raised the speed limit.

NetOwl: Is this going to be another thread in which people going the speed limit are the ones who are a threat to everyone on the road because everyone apparently has a right to break the law?

the human brain is slow and can only focus on one thing at a time and is easily distracted. we really shouldn't be driving at all. I can't wait till cars drive themselves and can monitor everything's relitave speed to .1mph thousands of times per second, less accidents, zero drunk driving. half the deaths are from drunk driving (pathetic), probably most of the rest are from stupid humans with road rage or doing something stupid. probably hardly any are from vehicle malfunctions at the wrong time. it can't be too hard for computers to drive better than us. and wtf, drink at home or use public transport, designated driver etc... no reason to drive drunk other than being a dumbass that thinks they've got skillz. it's the whole watching the game at the bar having beers american way that causes that shiat.

I love going the speed limit on single lane curvy roads and pissing people off behind me. if you speed there you're disrespecting the deer and cats.

I wish driving tests were more extreme, so way less people could pass, not that that would stop people so maybe death penalty for driving without a license too :D too stupid to drive? live by a subway. death for dwi too.

Wow, that's a stupid conclusion.

The only place you can drive 70-80mph (legally) is on the freeway. If you need to get on the freeway to reach your destination it's probably because it's more then a few miles away so you'd be driving regardless of the speed limit.

The areas where you have the biggest problem with people driving a few miles (or even a few blocks) instead of walking or biking somewhere is in the city and suburbia where you're not going to be driving that fast anyway.

What if we lowered the speed limit for cars to 1 mph?
Then people could get places faster by walking.
Increased walking would cause a reduction in obesity.
While some would claim that the left-wing nanny-state nutjobs would be all in favor of this, remember which POTUS lowered the speed limit to 55mph.

Clearly by evolutionary mandate people are evolving into their own air bags and more bulk will be needed to offset a higher speed limit.

/I like the documentaries that claim things like trees evolved a specific way so a rodent could help them scatter their seeds and insure their reproduction. Did they call a meeting with all the other trees or was this a individual plan? At least one can't hear a tree calling out....I got wood.

dennysgod: Wow, that's a stupid conclusion.

The only place you can drive 70-80mph (legally) is on the freeway. If you need to get on the freeway to reach your destination it's probably because it's more then a few miles away so you'd be driving regardless of the speed limit.

The areas where you have the biggest problem with people driving a few miles (or even a few blocks) instead of walking or biking somewhere is in the city and suburbia where you're not going to be driving that fast anyway.

The one way I see this having an effect is if it increases the distance people are willing to live from work, or increases sprawl by spreading the strip malls further from the endless tract houses that all look the same.

Speed limit is just one of many urban planning options needed to end sprawl and obesity.

What's interestingly not put in here: Did the autobahn turn Germany fat?

dennysgod: Wow, that's a stupid conclusion.

The only place you can drive 70-80mph (legally) is on the freeway. If you need to get on the freeway to reach your destination it's probably because it's more then a few miles away so you'd be driving regardless of the speed limit.

The areas where you have the biggest problem with people driving a few miles (or even a few blocks) instead of walking or biking somewhere is in the city and suburbia where you're not going to be driving that fast anyway.

Yeah, there's no situation where a lower speed limit would cause me to walk anywhere, so I can't imagine why this would be the case. Unless they lowered the speed limit to like 5 MPH of course.

Disagrees.

I've conducted my own study on obesity. Here are my findings. You read them on teh internet, so they are 100.3% true.

Fat people sit in front of computers a lot. The internet lives in computers, and Al Gore invented the internet. Al Gore had a beard for a while, and we all know that beards collect soup. Campbell makes soup, and Andy Warhol painted Campbell's soup cans. He also liked to paint Che Guevara, who had zany adventures in Cuba. Cuba is in the Caribbean, which has lots of pirates. Captain Morgan is a pirate, and he wears a tricorner hat. Tricorner sounds like tricorder, a device known to be used by Wil Wheaton in his Wesley Crusher persona. Wil Wheaton also starred in "Stand By Me" alongside Jerry O'Connell, who at the time was fat.

So there you have it. Indubitably, fat makes people fat.

I'll expect my Nobel Prize money in $2 bills.

hitlersbrain: It is routine for left wing nut jobs to use fake or bad science to try to force their way into people's lives.

As opposed to the right-wing nut-jobs, whose sole line of reasoning is "Because Jesus, that's why."

Eating more than you burn off causes obesity. That's it.

If the speed limit is raised I can get to the gym in 26 minutes.

stuffer:
I love going the speed limit on single lane curvy roads and pissing people off behind me. if you speed there you're disrespecting the deer and cats.


I love doing it in the number 1 or 2 lanes of a freeway. Traffic tickets in California are technically considered to be criminal in nature (infractions, the lowest of three types of public offenses in California, the other 2 being misdemeanors and felonies). I got a speeding ticket for 83 in a 70 on a day with extremely light traffic. Since my case is technically "People of the State of California v JPINFV," I figure I'll give the People of the State of California exactly what they want. Cruise control + number 1 or 2 lanes and having a line of cars behind me is therapeutic.

/The People of the State of California played a stupid game with me.
//The People of the State of California can now have their stupid prize.
///The fact that I won the trial by declaration does not change this.

If we're going that route...

Increasing the speed limit may lead to healthier people because that time savings will be spent working out in the gym longer.

Increasing the speed limit may lead to less traffic accidents as people will be on the road for shorter periods of time.

Increasing the speed limit may foster world peace because people will be less frustrated with time spent stuck in traffic.

Parking your car and walking, biking, carpooling, etc- will not make you fat.
Not eating McD or BK 4x/day will also help in not becoming fat.

I've always said humans need more animal fat in their diet.

NetOwl: Is this going to be another thread in which people going the speed limit are the ones who are a threat to everyone on the road because everyone apparently has a right to break the law?

No, this will be the thread where people oblivious to reality drive 4 miles under the limit in the fast lane in direct violation of the law while pretending they are the safe ones on the road.

JPINFV: stuffer:
I love going the speed limit on single lane curvy roads and pissing people off behind me. if you speed there you're disrespecting the deer and cats.


I love doing it in the number 1 or 2 lanes of a freeway. Traffic tickets in California are technically considered to be criminal in nature (infractions, the lowest of three types of public offenses in California, the other 2 being misdemeanors and felonies). I got a speeding ticket for 83 in a 70 on a day with extremely light traffic. Since my case is technically "People of the State of California v JPINFV," I figure I'll give the People of the State of California exactly what they want. Cruise control + number 1 or 2 lanes and having a line of cars behind me is therapeutic.

/The People of the State of California played a stupid game with me.
//The People of the State of California can now have their stupid prize.
///The fact that I won the trial by declaration does not change this.

What does this mean?

meyerkev: JPINFV: stuffer:
I love going the speed limit on single lane curvy roads and pissing people off behind me. if you speed there you're disrespecting the deer and cats.


I love doing it in the number 1 or 2 lanes of a freeway. Traffic tickets in California are technically considered to be criminal in nature (infractions, the lowest of three types of public offenses in California, the other 2 being misdemeanors and felonies). I got a speeding ticket for 83 in a 70 on a day with extremely light traffic. Since my case is technically "People of the State of California v JPINFV," I figure I'll give the People of the State of California exactly what they want. Cruise control + number 1 or 2 lanes and having a line of cars behind me is therapeutic.

/The People of the State of California played a stupid game with me.
//The People of the State of California can now have their stupid prize.
///The fact that I won the trial by declaration does not change this.

What does this mean?

Trial by declaration =trial by mail. If the officer doesn't respond then the case is dismissed. If you lose, you have the right to a new trial ("trial de novo").

If anything, the speed limit should be lowered on freeways. (I realize this is a U.K. article...). When gas hit $4/gallon last April, I vowed to start actually doing something about it instead of biatching and continuing to drive fast and stupidly like everyone else. The speed minimum on the freeways where I live is 55, so I drive it. In the right-hand lane, of course.

I used to have to fill my tank at 430 miles when I drove 70 and accelerated at the same rate as everyone else. Now it's 510 miles. I used to have to top off the oil in my engine by 1/4 qt every other gas fill-up. I've done it twice since starting this last April.

I will be saving approximately $700 in just fuel this year (not counting less wear and tear on my vehicle) and all I have to do is be patient and enjoy 6 more minutes of music each trip. People in huge pickup trucks flooring the gas pedal to pass me like it's a NASCAR race are easily spending $1,000/year more on fuel than I do, and they probably live their whole lives in this fashion.

When I'm 60 and retired, I will wave at all of them speeding off to work.

It used to be everything gave us cancer. Now its everything makes us fat. Science needs to go back to curing cancer. The end.

Sultan Of Herf: Your car is not a restaurant, phone booth, make-up counter, etc...put that crap down and drive.

I always liked the term "floating living room" to describe how some treat their cars. The truckers come close with terms like "four wheel phonebooth".