“…obligation to the community…forward his address…issued a citation…admitted law breaker…” Geez, Mike it’s 62 in a 60! Lighten up will you?

Did someone really waste their time writing this letter?

I find that it is difficult to force my vehicles down to 60 on cool, clear nights as they just want to run faster and you have work at slowing them down. Should I turn myself in?

Slamfist - According the McCluskey, if you’re eager to check out the pokey, call Cusumano for a ride.

Being one with a heavy right foot and the former owner of muscle cars (I notice that I haven’t been pulled over since I started driving a non-descript Honda Accord a few years ago but I still tend to drive the same as when I was tooling around in my Camaro, in which I would get pulled over for going even a couple of miles over the limit!), I have always wondered why cars are allowed to have engines that crank out 200, 300, or even 500hp! If highway safety is such a big issue then all cars should have governors on them that will not allow anyone to go faster than 60 or 70 mph. Supposedly my Honda can get up to 140 mph. Why?

Doesn’t matter if it’s just 2mph. Illegal is illegal. Doesn’t matter if your car can go faster — it’s not legal to drive it faster than the limit allows. Doesn’t matter if you are late to work or whatever — you aren’t above the law. No one is. There’s all sorts of things that one is capable of doing, yet can’t do without breaking the law. The ease of speeding doesn’t make it right. I refuse to speed and I don’t care whether people like it if I am or am not in the rightmost lane. If I need to be in another lane, I will be. Lack of planning on your part does not constitute an emergency on mine.

And by the way, the author is right — think of all the money we’d save if we all obeyed the law, like we are expected to (and like you agreed to when you got your license). I’m sick and tired of literally being deliberately run off the road by jerks in huge SUVs and trucks who can’t stand the fact that I obey the law like I am obligated to.

You have to agree to upload the laws when you get your driver’s license?

I doubt two miles over the speed limit is enough to even get the highway patrol of the side of the road to issue a ticket.

However, buran, the left lane is the passing lane. Driving slower than nearby traffic in the PASSING lane, regardless of if you’re driving the speed limit, IS dangerous and irresponsible driving. Signs on the highway state that slower traffic is to keep right so others can get around them. Driving slowly in the passing lane forces others to pass in other lanes and increases the chances of an accident. So in a way, you’re just as bad and dangerous of a driver as those of us who go two miles over the speed limit.

I am confused. The majority of responses to this letter seem to think that speed limits are minimums, not maximums. In the 32 years of driving a car and 31 years of driving vans, trucks, and school buses, I have yet to receive any form of ticket. Obeying the law had nothing to do with my crystal clean driving record. It must have been pure “luck”, that helps me keep my job and helps keep my insurance premiums down.

Mr McClskey, Your letter has been taken in vain by posters in here who think speeding is a “right” and should not be infringed upon.

Didymus, I, too, observe speed limits, In my driving career I have received two tickets. They were an award for SAFE DRIVING. They entitled me and a guest to have a dinner at a very expensive restaurant. The State Policeman who issued the tickets said he has observed my driving for 5 miles before pulling me over. I have never had a traffic or parking violation in my life.

Lacey, you don’t understand the use of the the passing lane, if there is one. The passing lane is to be used to pass without violating the speed laws. If you are in the slow (right) lane and the car ahead of you is is going 70 mph, you are not entitled to pass that car in the “passing lane” if the speed limit on the highway is 55. If you driving 55 in a 55 mph zone, and the car ahead of you is driving 55, you have no right to pass the vehicle because you are in a hurry. Traffic laws were not make for people in a hurry.