Speed As A Means of Population Control

[Packerjohn]

Yes, I'm seeing it every day and it goes on year after year. I'm talking about the speed of cars on the highway. This summer 16 seniors died on the way to a casino when the bus they were traveling in was hit by a 18 wheeler on the highway.

Today 5 adults died and of course, speed was a factor. No, they weren't teenagers. They were adults between the ages of 25 - 42. After decades of seat belt legislation, they were not even wearing them.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/five-people-dead-single-vehicle-rollover-1.6984043

I'm starting to wonder if this is Mother Nature's way of controlling population. I don't think Mama Nature is to blame. I think it is people who are to blame. They say "Speed Kills" but a lot of people just don't believe it!

 

[Jules]

As I understood it, the 18 wheeler wasn’t at fault. The casino bus driver shouldn’t have pulled out. One person, the driver, made a bad mistake, which is often the case when multiple people are killed. No seatbelts, that’s just plain stupid. Most of our fatalities are motorcycle riders.

 

[Nathan]

Speed As A Means of Population Control

Yea, they better hurry up with those self-driving cars because people are getting dumber by leaps and bounds. If I'm doing 75 in a 55 MPH zone I can expect to get honked at and flipped off if I'm still in the left lane. I guess the state's saving money by not having much in the way of CHP Traffic officers on the road anymore.

 

[VaughanJB]

When living in Germany, I just had to drive my car on the Autobahn at high speed at least once. I got up to 110mph before, frankly, bottling it. I actually felt myself getting scared, and at that speed your reaction time to anything that happens is irrelevant. Still, since Germans know how autobahn's are, going at that speed wasn't a problem. At 90 I was often passed by a Porche or two.

I was amazed when I went to the US. I had to take their "driving test", and having been through one in the UK was prepared for something difficult. Instead, they had me drive around the block, stop at a Stop Sign, and park. That was it. Weird.