Originally Posted By: artificialist
I went way over the speed limit, somewhere else, and I paid the price. I crashed and side air bags saved my life.
Ever since then I never driven more than 10 MPH above the speed limit.
Sometimes when I meet a guy with a powerful car, he will show off by going a crazy speed down an empty road. I get flashbacks when they do that.
Just for info, in Germany where 60% of autobahns do not have speed limit, death rates are 0.79 per million driven miles. In the U.S it is 0.81 per million driven miles with strict speed limits.
Culprit behind death rates are mostly elsewhere not strictly speeding (education, tires, brakes, quality of roads, discipline on roads etc.).