I am questioning my sanity
Over the past month I have read where traffic enforcement will increase throughout the US because of the direct relationship between speed and fatalities. Police are now monitoring favorite haunts of those who want to take their sport cars for spirited drives. Today at a national conference of law enforcement, police were criticised for allowing speeding up to ten miles per hour without ticketing.
Our road are congested like I have never seen. My 430 has barely made it to 120mph before having to slow down. It is rare I even have the pleasure of finding out what it can do because traffic and law enforcement just do not allow it.
My other choice is the track. However considering the circumstances surrounding Ben's death and other accidents I am aware, this option at least for now is not something I want to do.
So what the hell am I doing with a $200,000 high performance sport car.I could autocross with a Miata and probably have a lot of fun. Am I insane or just getting old.
Our road are congested like I have never seen. My 430 has barely made it to 120mph before having to slow down. It is rare I even have the pleasure of finding out what it can do because traffic and law enforcement just do not allow it.
My other choice is the track. However considering the circumstances surrounding Ben's death and other accidents I am aware, this option at least for now is not something I want to do.
So what the hell am I doing with a $200,000 high performance sport car.I could autocross with a Miata and probably have a lot of fun. Am I insane or just getting old.
Don't give up (seriously). Write your Congressman and explain why certain foreign countries with no speed limits in certain areas have fewer auto accidents per capita. Speed doesn't kill. Bad driving skills kill. Speed tickets are more for revenue generation than safety. How many people have been hurt in this country via police chases? I doubt tougher enforcement about speeders is our increasing public safety. If the government really wanted to save lives on the highway, the same standards established for getting, for example, a German drivers license would be set here in the States. It's too easy to get a license here!
I wish here in the USA we had access to an American Autobahn. I spent a summer in Bremen in 1981 (exchange student), and was able to experience the Autobahn-but only in the passenger seat of my exchange father's car-he had a Peugeot sedan and drove it only to the middle lane, never the inside lane 
much to my chagrin! As I recall, it was fairly safe, the only major accident with an ensuing fatality around Bremen was from a Geisterfahrer-for all readers of this, a driver who entered the Autobahn by driving the wrong way onto the exit lane 
