Speeding

Someone very close to me got another speeding ticket. I'm really pissed because there is no excuse for speeding. If you are late, too bad; plan your time accordingly. Thus I believe that I have come up with a workable solution. First off we have to realize that we do not and will not police ourselves. Parents deny that there children speed and only acknowledge there is a problem when there is an accident, and then it was the other drivers fault. If there is a speeding ticket it was because the officer issuing the ticket does not like YOUR child. That being said, statistics do not lie, our young drivers are being killed on a daily basis because of excessive speeding, inattention and inexperience. To make matters worse they are taking the lives of others with them. It is not just the young that are driving fast. I see on a daily basis the hurried parent with the soccer kids in the car, the construction worker in his oversixzed pickup racing to the next job and there is even the police officer who does not want to wait in traffic; turns his lights on to get out and then resumes his driving,of course always in the left lane faster than the pace of normal traffic.

Since we now have the technology to do just about anything I am going to propose the following, after a little more research but will give to the gist of the idea now. All modern cars have computers which run all aspects of the vehicle. I see no reason why there cannot be a receiver on the vehicle which will receive a signal that tell the vehicle how fast it can go and set the speed governor accordingly. These transmitters can be on top of street lights, change signals, or anywhere they can best be received. If the speed limit is 25 MPH then the signal for that area can be 33, just in case someone is driving slow and needs to be passed. The signal can be changed from a central location and can even be changed when road conditions warrant it.

There would be no exceptions: I can hear all of the special interest folks now from the ambulance squads to the volunteer firefighters. Bottom line is if PennDot or anyother state agency has certified that a particular piece of road can only be safely navigated at a particular speed then that is the speed to be traveled. This would also apply to 18 wheelers because for the most part I have never seen a driver of one of these rigs drive the posted speed limit. I do not want to be in the back of an ambulance which crashes because the driver was trying to get me to the hospital 3 minutes sooner. Todays medical rigs have everything necessary to keep you alive until you reach your destination. Even police vehicles should have to conform but be allowed a 15 MPH higher limit this would allow them to intercept other car and for the most part the increased speed in a city/town environment is all that is needed. This would preclude taking home bad habits, if you know what I mean.

Now for research............ I post another comment when research is completed.