| User | Comment |
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Maarten  |
Whenever it's safe to do so. There's no purpose in driving 70 mph on an empty road in the middle of the night with no other cars on the road. |
| TwistedIvory |
Especially when in a bad mood -- I know it's unsafe, but I won't be a hypocrite. I've tripled the speed limit many times without huge justification. |
| daver |
I think that speed limits are usually set based on financial, not engineering, criteria. I don't find them particularly relevant in determining a speed to drive. |
| joachim | | posted 4-Aug-2000 10:51am |
In the US, the speed limit is only very weakly aligned to a reasonable driving speed. I think it's usually OK to exceed the speed limit (so do most people, apparently) and never OK to drive recklessly. |
| Zang |
Well, the only time I did it I was drunk, alone in my car, early in the morning, no other traffic on the road. I've never had a drivers license. I did own a car briefly when I was 19. I don't think I went much over the speed limit though, it was a residential area and the speed limit would have been pretty low. |
| Jemmy |
I think I checked about half of them. I didn't check being chased by the paparazzi, remembering what happened to Princess Diana. |
| nihon | | (reply to Maarten) posted 6-Aug-2000 1:08pm |
Unless you're in a fire engine racing to a fire at a hospital while being chased by a seriously-injured stalker in a police car who is transporting a pregnant paparazzo woman in labor, right? |
| Maarten | | (reply to nihon) posted 6-Aug-2000 1:19pm |
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| mandy | | posted 7-Aug-2000 12:21am |
It is always ok to speed.....as long as you don't get caught by the pigs! |
| phi |
I marked all of these options except showing off.
Evidence of completely habitual speeding: have you ever noticed that people slow down when they pass a cop, even if they weren't speeding in the first place? The assumption that one needs to slow down reveals the assumption that one is speeding; this assumption reveals just how meaningless speed limits are in the US. |
| king_of_cups |
When you don't drive a crapbox. |
| jkiehart | | posted 9-Aug-2000 12:21pm |
This was a dumb survey. What jerk wouldn't pick half of those? "When a woman's in labor? Nah. STILL shouldn't speed!" When a fire engine is rushing to a fire scene?? Duh! |
| davec |
When there aren't any police around to catch you. |
| Andyroo |
The one and ONLY time I could possibly think of where going over the speed limit would be acceptable, would have to be if a big ass UFO was tailing my ass down the highway and about to beam me up on to the mother ship and take me away to a far away planet! Or every single day! Either one... |
| anonymous |
too many options there....have about something simple like "never". |
| supplicant | | (reply to anonymous) posted 10-Aug-2000 2:43am |
You mean like that one at the bottom of the survey with zero votes?  |
| Avocado | | (reply to phi) posted 11-Aug-2000 12:44pm |
Yeah - I've always wondered just what goes through those cops' heads, seeing a steady stream of people slow down just as they pass them... they must be really amused. |
| Oscar | | posted 17-Aug-2000 4:42pm |
anytime you want to |
| mary |
There is always a reason to drive over the speed limit, except for trying to beat the red light. |
