Strictest And Most Lenient States on Speeding and Reckless Driving
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Strictest And Most Lenient States on Speeding and Reckless Driving
See where your state ranks at the site and additional data:
http://wallethub.com/edu/strictest-a...peeding/14211/
The top 5 strictest states:
Colorado
Arizona
Delaware
Illinois
New Mexico
http://wallethub.com/edu/strictest-a...peeding/14211/
The top 5 strictest states:
Colorado
Arizona
Delaware
Illinois
New Mexico
Last edited by RA40; 07-23-15 at 02:27 PM. Reason: spelling
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Lexus Fanatic
I agree that speeding (especially speeding too fast for road conditions) is a big problem. But an even bigger one, IMO, has evolved in recent years...texting/cell-phone use while driving. Overly-complex controls and displays in many newer vehicles certainly don't help either, even some with voice-commands. .
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See where your state ranks at the site and additional data:
http://wallethub.com/edu/strictest-a...peeding/14211/
The top 5 strictness states:
Colorado
Arizona
Delaware
Illinois
New Mexico
http://wallethub.com/edu/strictest-a...peeding/14211/
The top 5 strictness states:
Colorado
Arizona
Delaware
Illinois
New Mexico
Having driven through NY, MI and PA, as well as UT,AZ, NV, CA and MT. I find eastern states rely more on speeding tickets as revenue streams, so the enforcement threshold is high, where as western states maintain a lower threshold unless it is coupled with other infractions such illegal lane change, erratic/aggressive maneuvers and others.
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I agree that speeding (especially speeding too fast for road conditions) is a big problem. But an even bigger one, IMO, has evolved in recent years...texting/cell-phone use while driving. Overly-complex controls and displays in many newer vehicles certainly don't help either, even some with voice-commands. .
Our tires, brakes, and suspension are exponentially better than what we had before. Throw in modern safety features such as airbags, esp, and abs intio the mix and it makes it that much harder to justify today's limits.
There is no reason for the speedlimits in my home town to be capped at 55mph. But to fair our traffic is so bad 55 is rarely reached.
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When I visit Ontario weekly, the law is a 33 MPH over the speed limit and you receive an immediate 1 week drivers suspension, road side vehicle seizure, Max $10,000 fine. It has a done a lot for speeding.
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Current speed limits where put into place on 50's and 60's. Those limits were based off of the stopping distance of cars from that era. Cars are very different from what they were 50 years ago and I think speed limits should reflect that
Our tires, brakes, and suspension are exponentially better than what we had before. Throw in modern safety features such as airbags, esp, and abs intio the mix and it makes it that much harder to justify today's limits.
There is no reason for the speedlimits in my home town to be capped at 55mph. But to fair our traffic is so bad 55 is rarely reached.
Our tires, brakes, and suspension are exponentially better than what we had before. Throw in modern safety features such as airbags, esp, and abs intio the mix and it makes it that much harder to justify today's limits.
There is no reason for the speedlimits in my home town to be capped at 55mph. But to fair our traffic is so bad 55 is rarely reached.
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I regularly go over my county's public arrest-reports (at least the ones that are published), and it's the same thing, over and over again, like a broken phonograph record.....cops stopping drivers for traffic-offenses and finding that they have long records or outstanding warrants for other offenses, and yet have never really been dealt with as they should have...or locked up.
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U.S. 40 westbound, with its three-and-one-half mlle, 10% grade-descent down Summit Mountain (Chestnut Ridge) into Uniontown can be quite dangerous if you don't keep your vehicle and its speed under control. Ditto for U.S. 30, both ways, up and down over Tuscarora Mountain near McConnellsburg.
Last edited by mmarshall; 07-23-15 at 05:53 PM.
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our highway speed limits are ludicrously low, and i would argue that it's the difference in speed that's a big problem, not absolute speed.
fortunately, in a few short years, most of this will be irrelevant as the cars drive themselves more and more.
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texting while driving is definitely dumb and dangerous, but i still disagree that talking on a cell phone is a big problem since people talk in the car anyway, to passengers, children, etc. and obviously hands free bluetooth makes it even safer. the tendency i've seen is that people talking on the phone are often oblivious that they're in the passing lane going SLOWER than the speed limit, but that's hardly a 'big problem' (although very annoying. ).
http://www.cnbc.com/2014/10/07/aaa-s...dangerous.html
our highway speed limits are ludicrously low, and I would argue that it's the difference in speed that's a big problem, not absolute speed.
fortunately, in a few short years, most of this will be irrelevant as the cars drive themselves more and more.
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besides, what's the point of the studies? should ALL outside communication from a car be banned? as i've said many times, if that's the case, we should also ban all INSIDE communication too, and put each passenger in a hermetically sealed blacked out 'cell' so they can't 'distract' the driver.
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i said i didn't think it's a big problem, not that it's not a problem at all.
besides, what's the point of the studies? should ALL outside communication from a car be banned? as i've said many times, if that's the case, we should also ban all INSIDE communication too, and put each passenger in a hermetically sealed blacked out 'cell' so they can't 'distract' the driver.
besides, what's the point of the studies? should ALL outside communication from a car be banned? as i've said many times, if that's the case, we should also ban all INSIDE communication too, and put each passenger in a hermetically sealed blacked out 'cell' so they can't 'distract' the driver.