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It's obvious that we aren't going to convince each other either way. Many of you guys amaze me with your hard-headedness about "do the crime do the time" as if the police are all angels and we're all criminals because we drive five miles over the speed limit and we deserve to be writing petty checks out to the government for this Oh My God Crime. I don't know what fantasy world everyone here lives in where everyone drives the speed limit all the time and every ticket is well-deserved, but remind me not to visit it if I ever start getting the urge.
Idealism is great, but tempering it with reality is even better... I would think...?
If speed limits were reasonable in Southern California, I bet I'd never have a problem. The only place I ever get tickets is on the freeway. If they DID get some automated system in place that started ticketing the entire population for speeding, I would probably drive slower, as I usually am going at the speed of traffic.
But if they're going to go that far, wouldn't you guys just prefer to see speed limiters in vehicles? Let's tie it to GPS, make the computer have a database of what the speed limit is on each street and not allow the vehicle to go any faster than the posted speed limit at any given time. For safety's sake, we should probably make sure that it limits speed around corners too--as just because the speed limit is 25 MPH doesn't mean that any given corner is safe at 25 MPH.
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