Analysis: the pilot’s quicker than ever before in nationality Lead Foot
LANCASTER, Pa. — Barry Landis did 109 km / h, when the radar detector on the bars seines’97 Dodge Avenger started beeping and flashing. That’s when he saw police cruisers.
Why was it so quickly? Because it is in a good atmosphere.
Why was it so good mood? As the fastest.
“It is a kind of cyclical thing,” he says.
For Landis, once tight, his little Dodge to 130 km / h, it is this: “I want to go fast on a snowboard. I want to go fast on a bicycle.
“I just want to go fast.”
It means a lot of other drivers - as the State police here have begun sharing with the media the names of speeders ticket to 90 km / h or more. The idea: damage to slow them down.
At another time in another country, it would work. But not today. Not in the Lead Foot Nation Hit speed when the driver, who seemed out of reach for all but car drivers race, stunt and Moonshiners. Here, many motorists as regards the border sent to a minimum, no maximum.
USA Today analyzed 1.2 million speeding tickets issued in 2002 on highways from 18 countries - about 40% of the intergovernmental system. In comparison with maps dating from the years 1991 and 1996, they confirm what many suspect:
* We are accelerating faster than ever before - in some cases, but much faster.
* Even if the highway speed limits were even a third over the past ten years, we have more speed on these new borders that we are old.
* Despite formal commitments that the increase would be strict compliance with the limit values, we receive more leeway for police, all but ignore speeders 10 to 15 km / h on the border.
The most striking is the rise of extreme acceleration - Take over 90 km / h or 15 km / h above the speed limit. In 1991, only 2% of drivers on airline tickets Rank 90 mph in 2002 to 10%.
Regarding the police call “The Century Club” - driving 100 km / h or more - is still much less exclusive. In 1991, only one in 300 was conducted in airfare or more 100 for the year 2002 was the report by a 100
In an attempt to slow traffic, judges in Sutter County, California have tripled the fine for driving at 100 kph almost $ 1000
Thus, many commuters use Sutter at three speeds, reduce their readers morning in Sacramento or San Francisco Bay Area, that the State has a police patrol 5 hours.
It is the great paradox of U.S. routes. Trafficking is increasingly difficult, there is less open road and gasoline costs more. That should slow us down.
But we want faster, and we do every chance than we do.
Why do we speed?
Indeed, we have a bladder full or empty expenses. Given that the cake is in the oven. Since classes began in five minutes. Given that the firm Day Care Center, and it is one dollar per minute after 6 hours.
We accelerate, because we want safer, or because we want to win a race. Because we believe that we have James Dean or James Bond. We accelerate, because we believe, F = ma: Fun equals mass multiplied by acceleration.
We accelerate, because our engines are bigger, the better our tires, our suspended solids, our cabins silent, our roads smoother.
We accelerate, because we do not know how fast we - at least that what we say, trooper.
Here in Lancaster County, where the Amish still horse and buggy races, state police say that so many complaints about speeding, they borrowed an old tactic of police Sion: the fight against prostitution by the Johns embarrassing.
But the strategy is to accelerate human shame.
When friends of Barry Landis found his name in the local newspaper, she withdrew from history, for his guestbook with their congratulations and offered their own stories of High-Speed-brushes with the law. “He sorta a celebrity, Landis, 26, said sheepishly.
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