When I first started driving a little over thirty years ago you only saw one or two people speeding. Today there are only one or two people going the limit (I often laugh and tell myself "they must be Christians")
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This is so true, all those old dolts doing 60 kmh where you're allowed to drive 80 do really tend to drive an Opel Astra and display a 'fish' on their trunk .....
No wonder aggression rises amongst motorists, ever been stuck for 20 minutes behind such an idiot on a local road ?
(please bear in mind that they tend to dissallow overtaking on local roads here in the Netherlands nowadays :( )
Btw, those are the same idiots who tend to give the right of way to ciclists, pedestrians and random other traffic when you the least expect it (i.e. a bike coming from the left ...), just to show how very civil they are.
Nothing wrong with civility imho, but stopping when no-one, and I mean no-one, expects it seems to be another example of the deeprooted death wish in Christians around the world IMHO.
When I first started driving a little over thirty years ago you only saw one or two people speeding. Today there are only one or two people going the limit (I often laugh and tell myself "they must be Christians")
Correct me if I'm wrong, but a little over 30 years ago, cars were nowhere near as powerful as they are now and it was that much less likely that people would speed... add to that the little fact that the average "optimum" speed of cars has increased over the years while speed limits haven't gives another reason why more and more people are speeding.
As for Christians not speeding, the only people I know that speed just happen to be Christians... with one of them managing to do over 140MPH in a 55MPH zone.
If you only saw 1 or 2 people speeding 30 years ago, You need your eyes checked.
(you can laugh and tell yourself any silly thing you want)
well, Joseph. I'd pay $$$ to see you puttin' down the Autostrade or Autobahn. Church vans have a tendency to go way over the speed limit and that's personal experience. Several weeks ago I passed one and I was going about 75. He caught up with me and passed me then slowed down. Repeat last 2 sentences. I thought "they must be Christians."
@CT
Ok, you're wrong. 30 years isn't very long ago. Do you think people were driving around in Model T's or something in the late 70's? This was the era of the muscle car, so if anything, the average car today is nowhere near as powerful as cars 30 years ago. Even the average family sedan of that era was a beast by today's standards.
And yes, people sped quite a bit back then, just as they do now. Probably more so, but that's just a hunch. Joseph The Carpenter is an idiot or a liar. Or both.
I started driving a little over 30 years ago too. This is what I remember:
From Wikipedia: The National Maximum Speed Law in the United States was a provision of the 1974 Emergency Highway Energy Conservation Act[1] that prohibited speed limits higher than 55 mph (90 km/h).
Do you believe the "55 Saves Lives" marketing campaign was launched because people were driving too slowly??
Liar.
"I often laugh and tell myself "they must be Christians""
They probably are. But, of course, it has nothing to do with your crazy convictions that "the end is nigh!". More like the more reasonable "I need to be there in 5 minutes!".
My mother was a devout Catholic (yes, I know, you don't think they're Cross-tians, but you're wrong) and, for her, speed limits were merely suggestions that could be ignored. Although she received many speeding tickets in her life, she never had an accident.
@ CT:
I don't know about thirty years ago, but nearly fifty years ago (if you can remember those days, you weren't there) I am told, and I have pictures to prove it, that I had an E-Type Jaguar that was fast .
The practice in those days was not only to speed home from the country pub, but to do it blind drunk. And mostly the police didn't bother you (I was stopped several times, to my shame now, but never busted).
In that sense, I think things have improved somewhat but not enough, because we still read every week of some bunch of kids crammed into a car getting slaughtered because their driver was slaughtered. I suppose some of them might have been Christians, but if so it didn't get into the papers; I don't suppose anybody really thought to ask.
fergus
I hardly ever speed. In fact, I really don't even like driving, but that's because I don't trust other drivers very much. The majority of the people I see driving in my city seem to think the speed limit is just a polite suggestion, including the cops. The majority of the people in my city are Christian. Coincidence?
“When I first started driving a little over thirty years ago you only saw one or two people speeding.”
@ #650910 You are on the mark, including the comment about family cars as “beasts.”
When I started driving 40 years ago (1969), it was the heyday of the American muscle car. Chevy Novas could be ordered with 427 cubic inch engines; a friend had one. The Olds 442 was on the market. The Plymouth Roadrunner and Dodge Charger, complete with “wing" (spoiler) in the “Da Judge” model was available (also owned by a friend). My brother rebuilt the engine on a 1967 Pontiac GTO. Heck, even the old man’s Ford Fairlane station wagon had a 351 cubic inch Cleveland engine and could do 90 (the old man and I tested the car out on some very long stretches in Ontario on a vacation trip).
These cars were not designed to do 55 miles per hour. Certainly, that was not the intention of their owners or the motoring public. The speed limit on the Garden State Parkway was 65 and 70 miles per hour. So, I mean, who is this guy kidding?
Americans have always had a need for speed. As the Detroit iron was retired, the kids today became “tuners” using software to tune their fuel injection and timing instead of hardware (e.g., 4-barrel carburetors) to maximize horsepower and torque. They don’t stick turbo-chargers on cars today to maximize fuel efficiency. As someone who was more interested in how many g’s you could pull in the skid pan (vs. my brother who was interested in quarter mile times), I really like the new, compact little monsters (think the Evolution or any number of other cars).
Joseph The Carpenter may see today’s speeders as one more sign of the Apocalypse; I say he is just full of shit.
Umm, I remember people routinely doing 70mph during the 70's, so no (I also remember the family Nova practically shaking to pieces at that speed. We've come a long way, baby).
NJOsprey: "Chevy Novas could be ordered with 427 cubic inch engines; a friend had one."
If it was a Yenko, I hope he kept it long enough to retire from it.
A little over 30 years ago? You mean the late 60's early 70's? The era of the muscle cars? Yeah, NOBODY EVER SPED BACK THEN
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Everyone beat me to it, damn. I think Joe's just getting old, next he'll be going on about the damn kids on his lawn.
did you not see Blues Brothers. They were on a Mission From God and caused major car accidents throughtheir speeding!
But this person may be right, i saw a sticker on the back of someone's car that said something along the lines of "Don't drive faster than your guardian angel can fly"
i almost rammed them just for the fun of it
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