Have you heard Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy’s PSA urging people not to “speed”?
Well, why not?
This gets into what exactly “speeding” is. As a simple definitional matter, to “speed” is to drive faster than whatever the speed limit is; more finely, it is to drive faster than the government says you’re allowed to. Okay. So what? The government also says we’re not allowed to do a lot of other things. Does this justify punishing people when they do them?
Why?
The government’s response is that “speed kills.” Well, if it does, then we’re all dead – because the Earth is “speeding” along at thousands of miles an hour. Of course, the government will say that driving any faster than the speed limit in a vehicle is what kills. And yet, people get killed every day driving at speeds that are below the speed limit – and it is also true that millions of people don’t get killed even though they drive faster than the speed limit.
So, clearly, “speed” does not “kill.”
At least not necessarily. Thus we tread on questionable ground, which is the natural turf for abuse. About 112,000 speeding tickets are handed out every day in the United States. Forty million annually. These tickets generate on the order of $3.8-5.4 billion in “revenue” for the cities, counties and states that sic cops on people for “speeding.” 
You might call that a profit motive.
Everyone (including cops) knows it’s basically a vast, systematized mulcting operation. Yes – of course – there are reckless drivers and “speed” is often a factor. But the majority of “speeding” tickets are handed out to drivers who had the bad luck to be the ones that got picked out from the crowd that day. Everyone was “speeding,” but the cop chose them for them the ticket – because someone’s got to pay.
They are like the fish that swim in aquariums at some restaurants where you get to pick the one you’re going to eat. It’s your day to get picked sometimes. When it happens, both you and the cop perform the absurd ritual of pretending the interaction is legitimate. The driver apologizes for “speeding” – conceding the stop is legitimate when of course he is well-aware he’s just being mulcted, hoping for a “break” – while the cop pretends to be the enforcer of “safety,” never mind that he almost certainly drives faster than speed limit himself all the time. It’s of a piece with being friendly toward the property tax assessor,, whose guts you hate – but you don’t let him know because he has power over you (and your wallet).
This sets the stage for the next act, which is the safety action plan developed by Duffy and his DOT. Part of this plan, apparently, includes mandating speed limiters. Of course, we are assured it will only be used to limit the speeding of the “worst of the worst,” which the plan describes as those who drive “excessively fast.”
But what does that specifically mean?
The term is hugely subjective. Which is probably precisely why it is used. Consider in this vein the definition of “excessive” cash in one’s possession, in the context of civil asset forfeiture. If you are not familiar with this, it is the legal mechanism cops can use to simply seize whatever cash you are found to have on you or in your vehicle in the course of a traffic stop by stating it is “excessive.” It can be $20,000 or $20. It is up to the cop to decide whether whatever you have is . . . “excessive.”
In some states, it is considered “reckless” to drive 20 MPH faster than any speed limit. In Virginia, driving faster than 80 anywhere – even on a highway with a 70 MPH speed limit – is technically “reckless” driving. As with “excessive” cash, it is up to the cop’s discretion to decide whether to arrest a driver for doing 81 on a highway with a 70 MPH speed limit or just issue him a somewhat less expensive ticket for “speeding.”
Why not just limit everyone’s speed to exactly the speed limit? That would be “safest” of all – if you apply the logic of the existing speed limit enforcement regime, which is premised on the idea that driving any faster than any speed limit constitutes an unacceptable safety risk. It’s the whole point of a speed limit. It just hasn’t – yet – been fully enforced.
We don’t get any latitude when it comes to obeying other laws. At least not legally. A cop can of course give you a “break” – i.e., give you a warning or reduce the “speeding” ticket he hands you by a few MPH – which by the way is the proof that he knows what you did is nothing more than a confected offense. Have you ever heard of a cop giving a rapist or murderer a “break”? As a matter of law, there is no gray area when it comes to speed limits, either. It is just as illegal to “speed” 1 MPH over the speed limit as it is to “speed” 10 or 15 MPH over the speed limit and in all instances, the ticket is predicated on the underlying assertion that all “speeding” is “unsafe.”
So – logically – it follows that all “speeding” ought to be prevented.
It will start with the “excessive” speeders first, of course – because it will be easier to get the majority of people to nod and say it’s necessary and because most people will think it’ll never apply to them. After all, they only “speed” a little bit! And then, one day, it will apply to them. Even if they only “speed” a little bit. Kind of like the way the income tax was originally passed by assuring the people that only a few people – the “rich” – would have to pay income tax. Now everyone pays income tax (except the big corporations that have the means to avoid paying tax on their income via lawyers and accountants that only big corporations can afford).
“The Trump Administration is launching the most comprehensive traffic safety initiative in NHTSA’s history, directly tackling our roadway safety crisis. This starts with rebuilding relationships with our law enforcement partners who were abandoned by the previous administration,” said NHTSA administrator Jonathan Morrison. “At NHTSA, we’re leaning in to support new and enhanced steps to target and reduce bad driving behaviors that lead to serious crashes like speeding and impaired, unbelted, and distracted driving.”
Italics added.
Note the characterization of not wearing a seat belt with “bad driving behaviors that lead to serious crashes.” Really? How, exactly? It is nonsense, whatever you think about the wisdom of wearing seatbelts. Not wearing one may mean you end up getting hurt if you crash – but to say it “leads” to crashes is like saying not wearing swim trunks leads to drowning.
Point #3 of the Eight Point Plan reads as follows:
“Maximizing Occupant Protection: With nearly 50 percent of occupant fatalities unbelted, NHTSA is promoting the “Rural High Five” program to target low-use areas and pushing for more nighttime belt enforcement. The agency is also partnering with the U.S. Army and Air Force to increase the proper installation of child car seats.”
Italics added. This probably means more “safety” checkpoints since how can they see whether you’re “buckled up” at night?
Anyhow, the thing to grasp is that all of this – as regards speed limiters – is already largely in situ. As in it’s in your car – already. If your car is new or newish – because it almost certainly already has some variant of speed limit assistance technology embedded in its electronic guts. It’s been a de facto standard in most new vehicles sold since around 2020. It isn’t yet used to actually limit speed – but all it would take is an update to make it so.
One sent out over the air, after a NHTSA/DOT decree. Just like that, your mashing on the gas pedal will result in . . . nothing. The car goes no faster than whatever the speed limit is, because it knows what the speed limit is and it knows just how fast it’s going and has the means – via electric control of throttle – to prevent the car from going any faster. Just like that.
It’s interesting to note that all of this is emanating from Trump’s ostensibly “conservative” DOT/NHTSA. It surpasses anything that old bag Joan Claybrook or that other bag, Elizabeth Doooooooole ever dared to suggest.
It’s a measure of just how cooked the frog already is.
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Cui Bono? The goobermint. Even after DOGE went through the couch coins, they still didn’t have enough money to give to Israel. I watched the movie “The Tinder Swindler”, then lived through its sequels, “The Covid Swindler”, The Ukraine Swindler” The October 7th Swindler”, and “The Iran Swindler”. “We’re winning, and we’re almost there, but we’re going to need more money, or the evil bogey man will get us!”
Eric, I grew up and still live off of Mountain View Rd. in east Roanoke county. Back in the early 80’s when I started driving this very rural/country road was unmarked speed limit. This road was like a roller coaster, with hairpin turns and many ups and downs. In the late 80’s they flatten and straighten out the section in front of the Blue Ridge Parkway maintenance office due to an accident where a kid died jumping a “dippitydo” hill in front of the ranger station. As a kid, we would always beg my parents to speed up going over this to feel our stomach drop ( great memories).
When they reworked this section, they changed the speed limit to 35. The other section was still a ” pig path”, but now 35. About 12_15 years ago, they flattened and straightened out this section. Rumor has it a certain retired speaker of the house of delegates who live on this stretch of road , asked for the speed limit be 25.
Mind you, this road has great sight lines, not many houses, very wide with bike lanes, and now you have to crawl along at 25 on a road that is so easy to drive 45 on. Think Buck Mountain Rd. which used to be 45 now 40, but with fewer houses and much better sight lines.
In saying all of this, the county has used this stretch of road as a revenue grab. There is absolutely no safety concerns if you were traveling at 40/45 , but they are constantly handing out tickets to 30 and above. I’ve had many a neighbor that have gotten a speeding ticket on this stretch.
As an oh by the way, I have been behind said retired house of delegates and his wife, going 40.
Do you think the would ever get a ticket?
Roger that, pfobo!
I’m hip; I live in Copper Hill (Check, basically) about 15 miles from the top of Bent Mountain and drive around Roanoke a lot. The 55 MPH limit on 581 is ridiculous. There’s also that stretch of Electric that goes down to 35 MPH just before you get near the mall; total radar trap. Which I why I always have my V1 with me!
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Let’s see…We post an arbitrary number on a sign, and if someone exceeds that number by an arbitrary amount, a “safety officer” can make an arbitrary decision and decide whether or not to issue a ticket.
Yep, that sounds real scientific to me.
>We post an arbitrary number on a sign
Except that it is not “arbitrary”, as I understand the matter.
As I understand it, the so-called “speed limit” is determined by observing how fast people actually drive, and setting the “speed limit” at something like the 80th percentile of observed speeds. (I may have the percentile wrong.)
The idea is that most people observe a “reasonable and prudent” speed, based on their own judgment.
Personally? I am in favor of the old Nevada rule, which negates the idea of a state imposed limit entirely, and states that “reasonable and prudent” is up to the driver’s judgment.
My youngest brother lives in Pahrump (Nye County, NV). He tells me here are plenty of “wide open spaces” in NV where you can still travel however fast you deem prudent, without fear of reprisal.
Not going to move to NV anytime soon, but I like the idea.
Morning, Adi!
Nominally, speed limits are supposed to be set according to the 85th percentile standard, which is basically what you’ve described. But it is common for speed limits to be set well below the 85th percentile, as we can see for ourselves every time we go for a drive. I’d say 85 percent are “speeding” – driving at least 5 MPH over whatever the posted limit is. It’s better on the highways but still designed to create “speeders” out of most drivers. In my area, the highways are 65-70. Most traffic is doing 75. On highways designed for average speeds higher than that back in the 1950s – assuming 1950s-era cars (and brakes and tires and so on).
Wait ’til the (self-described) socialists flood into the power structure. They will be babysitting the SHIT out of us. Boy, will we all feel the *warmth*, then.
Of course they never discuss under-posted speed limits. Roads by their design and location should have higher “limits”, but have artificial low speed limits. Mostly due to busy bodies or revenue generation (or both).
There is a road I drive on to work every day. 30mph. It’s mostly rural, a few subdivision entrance’s. There is no reason why it can’t be at least 50mph or even 60. But then no one would be “speeding” then. Oh, and all the passing zones were painted over long ago. So no passing, anywhere.
My guess, the average driver is doing upper 40’s. But you get that one person who actually does the speed limit or even lower. They are the dangerous ones because they slow the traffic randomly and for no reason, and won’t get out of the way.
Thankfully there is no good location for the cops to run a speed trap (town is notorious for speed traps). They do have one of those stupid speed signs (which never displays a number higher than 41). I love lighting up the “slow down” message every day. I would love to know the highest speed recorded on that thing (it’s got to be recording it). I imagine I could probably do a freedom of information thing, but I doubt they want to let people know that 95% of the people driving by are over 30. I bet for every person doing 25 there are probably 50 doing over 60.
Who teaches driving to the preponderance of people? GovCo.
Who certifies that those who are taught are capable drivers? GovCo.
Who then says that new drivers are so inept that they have to have a multiplicity of “restrictions” for the first few years on the road? GovCo.
Am I the only one that sees a common denominator here?
It’s a feature not a bug.
One probably learns more about driving from a two hour racing school class than weeks of driver ed.
I’ve instructed at two advanced teen driving schools, one for 8 years. It boils down to getting the students to relate it to another physical activity they already do. It could be riding a horse or wielding a spatula. They understand learning to feel the “tool” you’re controlling. Once they understand that and situational awareness, it becomes second nature to most.
Hey Sean, I hereby dedicate yesterdays tuning removal of my vehicles max speed limiter to you an yours. See ya in Amargosa soon, Happy motorin’
If they were actually concerned about safety they would put a stop to the ignorant unskilled foreigners who can’t read English driving semi tractor trailer trucks.
Or about a system that doesn’t allow truckers to violate truck lane restrictions?
How about a system to enforce ‘keep right except to pass’? Nope.
That said “speeding” has too much revenue behind it and mass speed limit obedience results in more crushing traffic congestion where nobody even gets close to the speed limit because roads can’t clear traffic as fast. As a result the cronies, the courts, the cops, the lawyers, and more simply won’t tolerate a situation where all that goes away.
Bingo. Practical politics, the system is a parasite well embedded into the host. Worse, the immune system was hijacked long ago by a system of licensure (titles of nobility) to keep the entire legal/judicial system as a priestly overclass. Same with drugs (cartelize it and make a ton of money) and with guns (can’t have people exercising their own power over their own lives and defending their liberties).
Speeding is easy to measure, lane discipline is more subjective. With the rise of police dash cams and traffic monitoring it might be getting easier to track though.
Cops don’t give rapists or murderers a “break”, no, but judges and prosecutors often do…sorta. Only they call it a “plea deal.”
“NHTSA is promoting the “Rural High Five” program to target low-use areas and pushing for more nighttime belt enforcement…Italics added. This probably means more “safety” checkpoints since how can they see whether you’re “buckled up” at night?””
AI: “Low-use” seatbelt areas are specific locations, vehicle types, or times of day where observational data consistently shows the lowest rates of seat belt compliance. According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) and other safety studies, these areas are primarily characterized by rural environments, late-night driving (alcohol impairment), and pickup truck usage. …Specific Jurisdictions: As of 2024, New Hampshire (no adult seat belt law) and Massachusetts are cited as states with the lowest reported belt usage.”
1.5.26 Press Release “New Study Shows Increased Seat Belt Use in Massachusetts
Seat belt use increased for the third straight year amid ongoing efforts…reported seat belt usage rate of 85.53% – an increase over the state’s 2024 usage rate of 84.36%…Municipal Road SAFETY GRANT PROGRAM: USING FEDERAL FUNDS awarded by OGR through the Municipal Road Safety Grant Program, 191 local police departments across the state conducted 37,887 hours of traffic safety enforcement so far this year, including 6,470 enforcement hours performed during NHTSA’s May seat belt enforcement period. In October, OGR awarded FY26 Municipal Road Safety Grant Program awards TOTALING NEARLY $6.2 MILLION to a record 210 local police departments to conduct traffic safety enforcement, training and outreach through fall 2026. High-Visibility Enforcement: USING GRANTS AWARDED by OGR, Massachusetts State Police (MSP) conducted 8,357 hours of high-visibility enforcement on Massachusetts roads during FY25, which ran from July 2024 to June 2025. This included 1,427 hours of enforcement conducted during national “Click It or Ticket” seat belt safety campaigns in December 2024 and June 2025…
https://www.mass.gov/news/new-study-shows-increased-seat-belt-use-in-massachusetts
I think you touched the main point that speeding has become synonymous with reckless.
It may be in fact true that it’s reckless to go faster than prevailing speed but that’s not a simple binary decision.
I put speeding in the same category as drinking and driving. In a perfect libertarian world everyone would accept full responsibility for their actions. So if you think you’re OK to travel faster than prevailing traffic then accept consequences if it results in an accident.
Yet, this is the root problem. Who gets to decide who’s at fault if an accident occurs and how does the arbiter assign fault if one driver was going faster than the other?
In the case of drinking it’s demonstrable that alcohol dulls your reaction time so it’s not the smartest decision to do that. If nothing happens then no foul.
If something does go wrong and one driver has been drinking can you say it would have been otherwise preventable? Not absolutely. It’s possible the accident could have happened between two stone cold sober drivers. What then? Should drinking and driving come with no consequence? That’s a recipe for chaos where no one is held responsible for their actions.
Same with speeding. The faster you go the less time you have to react. That’s physics. So the right speed is the one you feel comfortable in your personal reactions and the vehicle’s capability.
If I’m driving an SUV, which is my self deterministic right, the responsible thing is to travel slower than a sports car or motorcycle. Probably also courteous to yield way to more capable vehicles rather than plow through them, but is yielding a requirement of me in the larger vehicle?
Or does the choice made to drive a motorcycle exempt you from consequence of darting in and out of a sea of SUVs and be shocked when they can’t handle and stop as fast? Who gets to decide right amount of distance and time? Who’s going to be responsible if something does happen?
What about a poor driver on a motorcycle in an accident with an excellent driver in a 80,000 pound semi truck? Should the rider have known his limits and traveled slower than the truck driver? Ask anyone, you’re ALWAYS the best driver on the road and everyone else is terrible.
All of this is the long way around to asking in a society where you have interactions how do you manage them in a way that can respect individual choices when using shared resources?
It works if everyone is a good little libertarian. But the fundamental idea in libertarianism is choice. Other people don’t have to choose to be libertarian and you should respect their decision, right? You want to live in a socialist commune be my guest. It’s only a problem if they choose not to leave you alone. But from their collectivist viewpoint they aren’t violating any right to individualism. You have arrived at an impasse, how do you resolve this conflicting view of choices? Who gets to decide who’s right? God? Only if they respect religion and specifically your religion. Government? Well, no, as a libertarian I don’t accept the authority of a government in the first place.
How does any of this not end up in a constant king of the hill battle with force?
I think we’re doomed as humans to forever conflict, not really much different than packs (perhaps tribes?) of wolves constantly fighting for territory.
Hi Anon,
With regard to “speeding,” I think I have an answer. If the driver loses control then he was objectively going too fast for his abilities, the capabilities of his vehicle, conditions, etc. Most “accidents” aren’t. In the sense that while not intentional, they are the result of avoidable driver error. I consider an accident – objectively speaking – to be a tree suddenly falling onto your car; i.e., something that could not have been foreseen that no reasonable action could have prevented.
So, if you lose control and wreck, the wreck is your fault and so is the responsibility. This strikes me as fair because it is undeniably true. On the other hand, I do not see how it is fair to punish people on account of a worry that they might lose control – because someone feels they are driving “too fast.” That is entirely subjective and for that reason unfair, plus also the fact no actual wreck (harm) has occurred.
My ex complained I drive “too fast.” Yet I never lost control of the vehicle I was driving during all the years we were married; meanwhile, she wrecked three times while we were married!
I understand that there are circumstances when a person’s driving is such that it is likely to result in a wreck and I get the desire to curb such driving. The problem is it’s . . . subjective and that is always dangerous, because while a reasonable person would only want to see the driver who does the stereotypical 100 MPH through a suburban neighborhood targeted, we all know the ninnies and termagants consider the guy who drives 32 in a 25 to be essentially the same and equally deserving.
Bottom line: I’d rather run the risk of the occasional maniac than the certainty of tyrannical government.
“Slow is safe” is all about the damage caused when people do wreck. But one of the most annoying things about these people is that they will crawl along towards the green light at maybe 60% of the PSL then the light turns yellow, then red and then they go right through the red. Especially for right hand turns. Speed is dangerous but running a red light? The other person should be going slow enough to stop. It’s an absurd way of thinking.
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Gosh, what are greedy, forever-broke states and counties going to do when no one is “allowed” to speed, and LEO’s cannot hand out speeding tickets like candy? Oh, probably punish them with a tax simply for being forced to drive the speed limit. Or maybe I should not give them any ideas…
What many states, particularly blue states, may seek to do, is tax people who drive an automobile, particularly one that’s a gas vehicle and/ or made prior to circa 2015 and claim it’s necessary to “Stop cliiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimate change”, “Promote transportation equity”, “Fund the state transportation department”, etc. And when people complain about the increased costs resulting from such taxes, those governors can simply claim “It’s ALL Trump’s fault!”, and many people will likely EAT IT UP as TRUTH!
Hey Shadow and John, don’t give them any ideas! Taxachusetts already has a personal property tax on vehicles, based on book value, and it never goes away, even though my cars are so old I’d have to pay someone if I wanted to get rid of them.
Some days I’m glad I’m old and won’t be around to witness denouement of our freedom.
Hi Eric – they are well down the path of trying to force everyone into a tightly controlled transportation environment. It’s just part of the overall plan. They want you on that bus or at home.
Sean Duffy / Pete Buttigieg are one and the same. It truly does not matter which party is in power, their end goals are the same.
In the not so distant future your options will be riding the prison bus equivalent or staying home and consuming Huxley’s soma forgetting that you are controlled.
Sometimes it appears we are in a mishmash of Brave New World and 1984.
Vehicles costly to purchase? Check
Vehicles costly to maintain? Check
Vehicles impossible to repair at home? Check
Vehicles not exciting and virtually indistinguishable from each other? Check
Constant braying of “Safety” and “Think of the children”? Check
Constant nudging of the population, especially the younger generation, into learned helplessness with the .gov as the answer to everything? Check
Degradation of driving skills via lane change assist, emergency braking, self driving, radar controlled cruise control, etc.? Check
Conditioning the population to surveillance, constant data mining, etc.? Check
I’m not sure where this all ends, but I bet somewhere Rule .308 comes into play.
Take a look at this short video discussing some new patents by Ford to see the direction we are heading.
I think the next Ford that I buy will be an old Mach 1 that I can fit a 302 coyote into.
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https://bustednuckles.net/big-vehicle-brother-you-will-be-surveilled-you-will-comply/
I agree, Anon –
Every time I take the TA out, I feel as if I am living Red Barchetta… just in orange!
Hard to believe we still have speed limits. After the over reach of 55 saves lives you’d think weed have evolved beyond that. School zones and residential neighborhoods, OK 25 seems fair, since no one wants to see kids scattered on the roadway bleeding. But the interstates should have no limits. This bullshit will fit nicely into the slave state tool bag. Add in more climate change nonsense, or, resource scarcity ( Thanks Israel ) and you’ve got the making of a perfect little totalitarian world. I liked Duff better when he was revoking non English Illegal Aliens CDLs. Still see far too many river shitters in big rigs when I stop for fuel along the 40.
Indeed, Norman. Every speeding ticket I’ve ever been issued has left me angry and disgusted. Driving over 55 or 85 on a rural road is nobody’s business, the limits are arbitrary and the enforcement petty.
If you think of how dumb the average guy is, and realize that half of them are dumber still (riffing off George Carlin), and you think it’s a democracy and everything is subject to a vote, well there is no hope. And our Bill of Rights, especially the second, is there to see that a standing army of enforcers is unthinkable and can never work.
We have a 15 mile stretch of road between my town and the next bigger town. A few years ago they installed 5 roundabouts. If you want to see the consequences of safety cultism, look no further than the roundabout. MFers come to the roundabout and it’s like, ‘You go,’ ‘no you go,’ NO, YOU GO.” If thats not bad enough the speed limit between these ‘traffic circles’ is 55, so, the po po hang out when they feel like it, plucking people for 20-30 MPH over because a four lane straight away with no development, and the frustration of being behind someone who cant negotiate a roundabout properly, screams ‘I cant dive 55.’
Our county bought a huge parcel of land (with our tax dollars of course) next to a divided (trees in the median) 4 lane road and built two schools, an elementary and a middle school. This road is effectively the only thoroughfare connecting many bedroom communities with access to I-75, going into Atlanta. For twice a day, for each school separately, the road is limited to 25 MPH with police presence, etc. I have never seen any kids walking to or from either of these schools; there are some homes across the 4 lane road, which the school zone covers, but not that many. Most kids are bused in. 25 MPH is not “fair” and even with drivers going at the speed limit, no kids are going to be scattered in the roadway bleeding. But, here in Georgia, schools can put up traffic cameras in school zones, and the buses have traffic cameras. It’s all about the money, honey.
That sucks. Especially the part about cameras on buses and in school zones. Maybe they could steal more of your money and build some wildlife underpasses like on the Sterling highway in Alaska. Sorry, we shouldn’t be giving them ideas.
Considering the shocking numbers and variety of roadkilled animals I see on my daily runs, I’d much prefer my tax dollars be spent on (effectively!) reducing those needless animal deaths than those ludicrous ‘school zone safety’ measures. I keep a running casualty list and, man, it’s disconcerting for this animal lover. Of course, it goes without saying, I’d prefer no government thievery at all.
As for 84Lion, I’m in Georgia (on the opposite side of ATL) and I can vouch for everything he/she says. Believe me, I’m every bit as disgusted with that ‘school safety camera’ racket. They place them where it’s natural to drive 45 or 55 and then bleed the plebs at every opportunity. Like 84Lion, I’ve never seen a single kid walking there – traversing Peachtree Industrial Boulevard on foot would be utterly insane, by design! Worst of all, there’s apparently none of that pesky Constitutional right to trial and/or to face one’s accuser. Just like the Mob: ‘Fuck You, PAY ME!!!’
Wait, is Pete Buttigieg still Transportation Secretary? This “Safety Action Plan” proposed by CURRENT Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy sounds like something Buttigieg would have proposed when he was Transportation Secretary for President Joe Biden.
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Commercial and fleet vehicles are mostly already speed limited. My former employer’s fleet got “upgraded” sometime around 2015. My vehicle was too old and incompatible with the speed limiting system, so I got a pass. But my coworker’s truck was originally set for city driving, which meant an absolute maximum of 70 MPH. He was told it was set up for rural (80 MPH) but when he started down Vail Pass it slammed on the brakes and went into what he described as “limp home” mode, maxing him out at 60 MPH until the next day. It also sent emails to our supervisor (and probably the safety gal) informing him of the transgression.
Their truck, their rules. Probably helps with the insurance too. Will drivers with locked-down go pedal to the PSL get an insurance break? Will it be sold to the public with a lot of teen drivers and parents “feeling better” about letting junior drive knowing that he can’t speed?
In a fleet it’s their rules. I don’t have a problem with this. Misguided, maybe, but that’s their right as the owner. If I lend my car to someone I’d expect them to respect my stipulations when they use it.
That’s exactly right. And to be honest, I normally traveled with traffic and rarely got out of the right lane in my company truck. Mostly because the company made it a major hassle to deal with a speeding ticket. First was the “random” drug test (random because getting a speeding ticket or having an accident is a random event). Then there was the required day in safety class where you learn that every accident is ultimately preventable, because you could have called off sick that day or something. And if it was a second offense you didn’t get a merit increase in pay that year.
RK, you sound like another tech guy whos had to “call in well” for a rocky mountain high day. Life is good.
This is where the claim that driving is a “privilege” comes from. Commercial “drivers” be they involved in drayage (hauling cargo commercially) or chaufferage (hauling people commercially) are legally controlled when using the public’s roads for their private profit.
Controlling the operations of truckers is within the delegated powers of the states (though where the Feds have any say on intra state drayage or chaufferage is murky). And they are certainly within the rights of a company to control.
The right of the individual to drive his car, truck, motorcycle, airplane, rocket, flying saucer, or whatever is one of those rights so basic it wasn’t expressed in the Bill of Rights, any more than the right to eat or breathe. Though they are certainly protected by the first and second amendments.
In the days of the horse and buggy there were probably rules in urban areas and generally accepted practices going back to Roman times. Much like the fishes asking “what’s water?” when it’s pointed out to them they’re in the ocean, these rules just self populated (or perhaps were enforced by Roman centurions) but the origin has been lost to time. For sure there were laws covering vehicles in cities to control congestion and the need to settle injury and damage claims.
Yes, of course there can be rules. The existence of a rule giving right of way to pedestrians, or staying to the right side of the road, in no way makes your personal travel a legal privilege. And these rules only come into play when there is damage to property or life as a result.
NYPD cop racked up more than 500 speeding tickets in NYC since 2022:
https://nypost.com/2026/04/24/us-news/nypd-cop-racked-up-more-than-500-speeding-tickets-in-nyc-since-2022-report/
LOL laws are for you filthy peasants, not the King’s men
Cops speeding “Good”, you speeding “Bad”.
In a similar vein Politicians doing insider trading “Good”, you doing insider trading “Bad”.
Rule for thee not for me. Loves and kisses. GovCo.