Chalo said:
liveforphysics said:
The penalty is all ready so absurdly severe, only a fool chooses not to run at this point.
It's much easier to just refrain from driving like a jackass in public. You think it's your natural right, but it's not. The law dogs are trying to tell you, but you aren't listening.
The next level of warning is serious injury, if you are lucky. It could go straight to permanent disability or death without a stop in between.
Chalo
Well, you all seem to have the argument well under way, so here's a mountain of real world shit to shovel.
Lawmaking is slow! Death is faster. Therein is a big frocking problem, waiting for a slow decision about going to the other side fast, while taking along your favorite friends. The US will never see 500 kph rails, I bet, or EV's capable of independent motoring @ 200 mph for 2000 miles, nonstop. Physics and economics prevent such a machine from being built or operated. You don't get something for nothing, especially concerning super dynamics.
Agreed, people navigating their SUV refrigerator computer sausage cooler phone sofa boxes down the bully-bard, nonchalant, willy-nilly, are a scourge for the cyclist. For some ungodly reason everybody seems to think it's their birthright to operate some sort of multi-wheeled vehicle, and truth is, everywhere, it's a privilege to operate such. It always has been, and always will be. A pea-brain is driving the bus or car or train or bike… who are you going to trust to be more responsible for such machinery, one with a simple mission, or one fraught with ego-desire??
Colorado just raised the penalty for drunk driving/ fatality related offenses to being high class felonies, with harsher jail times. See? Passed, after 20+ months of haranguing, after who knows how many hangovers on their own part. Under the surface, there are no accidents, only stupid people, people who think they can get away with breaking laws of physics; ignorant dumb-asses, needing reminders of deadly things three times squared, at great expense cubed, eventually… awakening to reality, or never doing so.
Lawmakers are slow, yes, but maybe not as slow as the ones who sleep thru the reality. YOU are a "durable" being, albeit limited, one who can be stopped when acted upon by outside frocking forces, for perpetuity. Though this cold truth may elude you in your quest for the fastest ride to hell's door, it won't be wasted on others, especially congress' "turtles".
This world, sans speed machines, is a slow one, and life's short as well. Speed kills, always has, always will.
Back to real time: my daughter just called from the hospital, where she's getting stitched up from falling downstairs with a tray of glassware. She just learned something.