Zero tolrance speeding

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Yep, I 100% agree with you there REXman. There are valid reasons for going significantly under the speed limit. Transporting something fragile, car is fragile, whatever. But stay to the left!

When the Mercedes Benz head of safety came out, one of the things he said is that our speed limits are all wrong. We've got 80km/h zones in suburbia, and then we've got 90 and 100km/h zones on interstate roads. He said that they should be 140km/h etc. BUT he also noted that we're terrible at staying left, and that this would have to be heavily re-educated and enforced before you could implement higher speeds on interstate roads capable of supporting it.

I remember reading that article but i thought it was one of the German Ministry members.
On the weekend i drove down a road here that had 2 lanes both ways with a median strip in the middle and a wide nature strip on each side of the road, no houses fronting it and it was 60km/h.
Then i turned onto a street (actual name was track but it was sealed), 1 lane either way, no median strip, no edging nad house frontages onto the road and it was 80km/h.

We reallty need to have a look at the way the speed limits are set and fix the problem there and with driver training.

However if we do that the Gov loses money and then you get taxed on fuel or something else so at least this way if you stay within the speed limit you don't get taxed.

It is annoying but if you don't like it there is the option of taking the tax