Lone_Gunman
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This is like trying to teach a pig to sing.
Well, I didn't mean to make you resort to name-calling, as it really screws up a meaningful discussion. Oh well, it wasn't too meaningful anyway.
This is like trying to teach a pig to sing.
Beerslurper sorry but you don't know shineloa about how many beers cause .08. Sure if you weigh about 40 lbs you can be in danger of blowing .08 after one beer. If you weigh about 200 lbs it takes about eight beers to hit .08. It is all about body weight.
Heh. I've been stopped (legitimately) exactly ONCE for suspicion of DWI...
I had just left a bar, where I had finished a second drink (quicker than planned: they decided after I had it they wanted to close early). Felt fine, got behind the wheel... cop saw me SLIGHTLY over the centerline, pulled me over. I was honest about what I had been drinking, and we started the field sobriety test... and stopped with the "follow the light" section. Why? I know what they're looking for, and I was showing the signs of intoxication! Verified with the officer (he was shocked that I'd ask about it like that, and told him "I don't care WHAT you say, I am NOT getting behind the wheel of that car again tonight!". I was given a warning. All that said...
I think .08 is WAY too low. HAs there really been any improvement since it's been lowered?
cropcirclewalker said:except for the speeding, which we all do, so it shouldn't be a crime.
beerslurpy said:If the speed limit is 35 and I do 70+ because I have race tires, who is harmed?
If the speed limit is 70 on an empty highway and I do 140, who is harmed?
Scottmkiv said:I sure think interstate highway limits should be raised by 50% or more, if not eliminated outright.
beerslurpy-Obviously driving at high speeds through crowded residential neighborhoods is bad, but what about doing double the speed limit on a mountain road or an interstate in the middle of nowhere? Also, Pamela, please consider that my race car (when I drive it on the street) can stop many times faster than a normal street car. I could safely drive 3-4 times faster than when I am in the daily driver . One size fits all speed limits have nothing to do with safety.
Amusetec said:I fully belive the speed limit on open highways should be what you can safly drive
beerslurpy said:my race car...can stop many times faster than a normal street car
Field Sobriety Tests are designed to be failed. They are also voluntary.
Horizontal Gaze Nystagmus or HGN is an involuntary jerking of the eye that is purportedly caused by alcohol causing a jerking (nystagmus) of the eye as it moves from side to side. This is an extremely technical test that a motorist has no control over, and the results are completely subjective, based entirely upon the officer’s observation. Most officers receive little training in this test, but it is one of the more common tests employed by police.
As far as I know, only three states let it have evidentiary admissibility with my state, Kentucky, having no regard for it at all.
to go after these new "drunk" drivers who don't pose much of a threat to highway safety
No offense, but in my particular case I assert that I made no driving errors, with the exception of deciding to drive after drinking (Just so that my entire account is not dismissed, I must defend this statement by explaining that I was constantly checking my speed--I knew I did not want to get pulled over and was driving cautiously). Whether I actually did or did not roll-through a stop sign and speed becomes irrelevant if the arresting officer is willing to fabricate those details in order to satisfy an important criterion for a DUI arrest and to justify the stop in the first place. My point, which I believe deserves some consideration, is that IF there was no real reason to pull me over in the first place then there would NOT have been any personal contact between officer and subject (me) NOR would there have been any FST's. THEN, I would not have taken a breathalyzer and been arrested.Observing the subjects driving, personal contact with the subject and performance on the SFSTs go into the decison to arrest. If you can't articulate all of these steps, you stand the risk of having your arrest thrown out and the case dismissed. It's not as simple as dragging motorists from their cars and making them take a breathalyzer test as some of you seem to think.
Really not even close.despite conceding that they may violate the Fourth Amendment. Former Chief Justice William Rehnquist wrote that the threat to public health posed by drunk drivers was reason enough to set aside concerns about searches without probable cause.
It could read in the future:
the threat to public health posed by Firearms was reason enough to set aside concerns about searches without probable cause.
Lowering the limit from 65 to 60 will help you catch the people going 100 no more than the AWB kept "weapons of war" out of the hands of criminals and terrorists.With the way people tailgate (at least where I live), it'd be better to decrease the limit rather than raise it. The last thing those idiots need is to be allowed to go faster. However, there will always be those who drive really fast, regardless of the speed limit or absence of.
I got 33mpg in a car rated for 28 highway going 75-80 for the majority of a tank. There are far too many factors for your average magazine editor to understand that will affect your milage.Also, in defense of reasonable highway speeds, what about fuel consumption? I read somewhere, probably Reader's Digest, that fuel economy peaks at 60 mph and decreases by 10% for every 5 mph over 60. With gas prices on the rise, that right there is a good reason to slow down.
Lupinus wrote:
Most tailgating is caused by people that will not move out of the way and hold up traffic, not by people perfectly capable of going faster.
Lupinus also wrote:
Unless I am going faster then condition's permit and have to put my foot on the brake because you are in that lane, you do not belong there.
And if he wasn't doing 65 in the passing lane when the speed limit is 65, I wouldn't be coming up on his back end. You do not belong in the passing lane if you are not going fast enough to pass someone at anything more then a crawl. And I have been doing 80 behind someone who was doing a similer speed. I was roughly a few car lengths (but far short of that car length for every ten mile's) behind and he hit a deer. I don't know, I managed to brake just fine without rear ending him. It is called pay attention. If you are doing sixty and I am coming up on you at 80, you should be paying attention as well to whats happening behind you and move out of the left lane. I am not going to run up to six inchs from your bumper. But I am not going to stay back ten car lengths and do sixty because you want to cruise at the speed limit in the passing lane.At least where I live, tailgating is very commonplace, and not just in the passing lane on the highways. People don't realize, or don't care, that if you don't leave sufficient stopping distance, you WILL ram into the car ahead of you if it suddenly stops.
Exactly, so pass and get out of it uless you are going to go fast enough to pass most car's on the road. You know in Germany on the Autoban doing that is illegal?The leftmost lane is not "drive however fast you like--it's the passing lane!"
And if that is all you are doing I will do nothing of the sort. But if you are just riding your life away in the left hand lane and not moving over after you have passed, I will. Move over, let faster traffic pass, and then if you feel so inclined get back over.Just because I'm passing someone slower than what YOU would like does not give you the right to endanger my life by riding on my bumper, and flashing your brights at me or honking
Im 19 in a camaro, trust me, I will get pulled over long before you do even if you are going faster."I wanted to drive slower but they made me drive fast!" I don't think so.