Ind. trooper lauded as 'hero' for citing 'slowpoke' driver

pnichols wrote:
So .... laws should be based on "the majority rules"? This can sometimes be deadly baloney.

What about the LOP (Laws of Physics) and/or the statistics of complex systems failure rates? When I see those 75, 80, 85 MPH law breakers pass our RV (or daily driver), this is what goes through my head regarding those speed demons:

1. What if a brake assembly should freeze for whatever reason?
2. What if a tire should blow for whatever reason?
3. What if a tie rod connection should separate for whatever reason?
4. What if a drive shaft universal joint should fall apart for whatever reason?
5. What if a small oil slick on the road surface should suddenly make itself known?
6. What if an AWD component should fail for whatever reason and suddenly lock up both front wheels?
7. What if a piston rod should suddenly fly through the engine block for whatever reason?
8. What if a toad hitch should suddenly separate for whatever reason?
9. .... and so on and so on?

Would you rather have another vehicle beside or ahead of you experience 1. through 9. traveling at the law's speed limit or their driver's own frantic speed limit?

What one has been getting away for years is no proof that they're going to continue getting away with it ... and when statistical fringe LOP reality someday catches up to them would it be better that they be traveling faster or slower ... especially when they might take others around them with them on that fateful day?

My vote is for slower.

That's quite a list! :E I have Rv'ed for over 40+ years and the only one of those things happening to me was I had one tire blow. What happened? Nothing. In fact I didn't even know anything happened except for the slight vibration in the steering wheel.

Have you ever had any of those happen to you. What about your friends? Any of your friends EVER toss a rod while towing? Ever?

As far as the laws speed limit or their driver's own frantic speed limit; I've towed at 55 (my states speed limit) and I've towed at 80 Utah's speed limit, and every thing in between. That was what the law said the safe limit to travel was so when in Utah...……………………………..:B