Oh the problems of the first world. When you get to thinking about it more regulations are created by those that envy the ones wanting to live it up. Take for example the predicament of the dude that buys a Ferrari.
Where is he going to drive it? To really kick it he has to take to the highways. That does no good. In reality where is he going? To work on surface streets (I mean not to work on the street unless he is a road maintenance type) to pay for that Ferrari or Porsche. Well guess what - he cannot really drive it any different than a Hyundai behind him.
Then to the matter of hitting the high road (or free way) its not that free. If he takes off over the posted speed limit to really gun the cylinders he risks getting caught in the eyes of the patrol. Said patrol on petrol use is a sad excuse for useless regulation on a civilization that is considered unable to regulate themselves.
I say if we design freeways with dedicated no limit lanes these people might feel rewarded for owning these high speed machines. But alas we do not. There is no revenue in that. Although Texas has recently adopted a strategy to give and receive. A new toll road with higher speed threshold allows people to drive 40 miles in less than half hour. For such exhiliration they fork over certain monies to the state.
Yet models similar to these (taxation not automobile) do not truly let you justify a high end car purchase. Because if speed thrills then 85 miles an hour is still what a Hyundai can deliver with ease. Don't need an Italian job to get there when a lo(ve)wly Korean would do.
Then there is the protect life lobby that springs into action since they have nothing better to do. Their belief stems from the notion that all life is sacred and that it is the government's job to do everything to protect it. I think this is a huge fallacy that is costing me a lot of money.
These people are disconnected from reality and only exist to while their time away. I say people that do not want to continue should be allowed to end it. There are many ways to do so and driving very fast into a stationary object is one of it. Let them.
By creating special lanes for no limit drivers we can achieve both - revenues to the state and exhiliration to the driver such that collateral damage is minimized. I for one do not want to be the stationary object in the above mentioned scenario.
It is indeed foolish that in a country where firearm purchases are legal we should have to worry about speed limits.
On an informal mission to read one book a week as long as the eyes allow for such ambition. Fiction or non is not important as long as it entertains and /or educates. To that end the past few weeks have brought a bounty in the form of some wonderful and then not so engaging literature. Among the notables are - Non fiction category: 1. Good arguments by Bo Seo (how to handle a dispute or debate the most efficient way possible) 2. Genesis by Eric Schmidt (and former US Secy of State Henry Kissinger, who recently passed) - how AI might affect our lives as we know it 3. One in a billion - Zarna Garg (an autobiographical look at an Indian born American woman with a bindi narrated in a standup format - yes it is at times cliched but still funny) Fiction: 1. Personal by Lee Child (a vigilante story with Jack Reacher the giant, nomad protagonist of Child's novels goes hunting for a sniper) 2. Ramayana unraveled by Ami Ganatra (she might disagree about it being a work of fiction but oh wel...
Man with his limited imagination can't do much better than impose limits...brain surgery might improve conditions.
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