Well in Ontario if they catch you 50 over with the new law they:mcheddadi wrote:
You set your cruise control at 95mph!!! reallY?!!!! thats 150km/h !!?
I don't it's possible in Quebec to do that without losing your driving license lol
A) Take your license at the scene, it's suspended for 7 days
B) Tow your car to a government lot at your expense, storage of the car is at your expense with the added cherry on top that anything happening to the car during the time it's impounded the government isn't responsible for. Car's impounded for 7 days.
C) You get a court date(in 7 days) to decide if you get your license back
If the court finds you guilty you can get a huge fine, min $2000 and max $10,000. And they can suspend your license for up to 10 years, 2 years max for first offense.
The new law also bans nitrous systems being connected on the road.
Number of people speeding over 50 now a days? Still quite a few but at least they don't do it in heavy traffic now. And a lot less tail gating as well because now people can't ***** if people refuse to speed excessively in the outside lane. And you can see why. If you need your car to go to work and you get caught you are basically screwed.
I think the basis of the new speeding law is good but the implementation sucks. It's guilty before proven innocent and I think that's not right.
Now before people say speeding isn't dangerous. Really think about e=1/2mv^2. Basic physics that tells you if you increase speed by two the amount of kinetic energy in your car and you is now 4 times as before. What that means is a car like the new Altima which is rated 5 stars sedan and 4 stars coupe frontal crash at 35mph, will almost be assured to completely unsafe if you crash at 70mph cause 4 times the energy to absorb is only possible with some technology we haven't invited yet.
Modified by gotak at 9:53 PM 12/18/2007