>Let's hear it for the new limits!
While I welcome opportunity to drive faster so I can get there quicker so I
can rush and get back sooner all so I can get up the next day and do it
again, no speed limits have me concerned. Do were really want the population
driving at speeds in excess of 65 mph? Shoot, with
people using car phones, eating hamburgers, and smoking cigarettes while
driving 90 to 100 mph we are in for some really spectacular wrecks. Reminds
me of a time I was on the autobahn with my brother in his RX7. We were
cruising about 70 to 75 mph because that was a reasonable trade off of
fuel usage (gas is expensive in Germany), travel time and safety. Anyway, in
our several hundred mile journey we never passed a Mercedes or Porsche.
They passed us. One day, cruising toward Garmisch from Munich, some Merc
zooms by us at maybe twice our speed. Not so unusual. About 15 miles down the
road we see what we thought was the same Merc (it was hard to tell) crushed
and smoldering on the median. I had never
seen such a total wreck. We don't really know what happened and we didn't
rubberneck to find out but speed had to have made a difference.
Later on that same trip, we had stopped to remove
some snow chains from the rear wheels up in the Alps near St. Anton. A little
boxy type car, like a Fiat, comes zooming by us down the hill going way too
fast for the conditions. In a few minutes we headed down the same road to our
hotel. On the street right in front of our hotel upside down in the
middle of the road was the boxy car on its roof. The
driver was out but the passenger was dangling from the seat belts. We later
found out the passenger was killed by a broken neck.
>I hear that Montana has now become the
>"American Autobahn" with no posted speed limits. On the other hand, it
>sort of echos T.J. Higgens story about futuristic vehicles chasing down
>our LBC's.
We don't have to worry about futuristic vehicles. I'm more worried about joe
schmedlaps driving 90 mph with bald tires, bad brakes and music blasting.
Rob
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