[geeks] Stuff fo' sale

[Lionel Peterson]

>From: "Nick B." <nick at pelagiris.org>
>Date: 2006/08/16 Wed PM 05:40:40 CDT
>To: The Geeks List <geeks at sunhelp.org>
>Subject: Re: [geeks] Stuff fo' sale

>On Wed, Aug 16, 2006 at 02:28:25PM -0500, Lionel Peterson wrote:
>> By definition, the SPEED LIMIT on a 40 MPH road is 40 MPH, if conditions are not perfect, you SHOULD be driving slower.
>> In other words, it's a limit, not a suggestion - for fear of being percieved as someone I am not, I have gotten my share of speeding tickets in the past...
>> Lionel
>I think you've confused "original theory" and "current implementation".  At one
>time, long long ago in the dark history of the US speed limits were based on
>the maximum safe speed.  This is no longer the case.  Speed limits are in
>general legislated to be "X for Y area", and "Maximum safe speed" has next to
>nothing to do with it.
>(Note that this leads to speed limits being too high as well as too low, though
>those seem to get fixed much more rapidly)

I'm not confused - I didn't say how they arrived at the limit, just that by legal definition (IANAL) it is the LIMIT - in our discussion folks were starting to refer to the speed limit as if it were a suggestion...

Lionel