Jim Samuels Quotes

I'm going to introduce you to a revolutionary thought - you can go slower and get there quicker. And that's to do with flow. As soon as you made it two lanes and brought in the 70 (mph) and 50 (mph), you got there quicker. It meant the flow of the traffic was better, there were less accidents, less deaths, I think that's an important factor.

Traffic signals in New York are just rough guidelines.

When I stop at a stop sign, I don’t think about the distance I’ve crossed. I just wish I never had to stop.

I get tickets all the time and can't stay under the speed limit. I'm bad at that.

Faster roads are not always safer roads - and virtually all societies, democratic or authoritarian, prefer safety over speed, even if many of their citizens enjoy fast driving.

Remove all the traffic lights, yellow lines, one-way systems and road markings, and let blissful anarchy prevail. I imagine it would produce a kind of harmony.

I'm a really good driver. I've been driving since I was very small, and I do like driving fast. I remember the first time my dad taught me that when you go into a corner you change down then put your foot right down on the way out. I'm very competitive about driving.

If I complain about a traffic jam, I have no one to blame but myself.

You have to take account of traffic, but you should not pander to traffic.

Nobody would be killed on the roads if the speed limit were 10 miles an hour.

I know about traffic.

The agenda of the roadblock is the philosophy of the stop sign.

April prepares her green traffic light and the world thinks Go.

I hardly broke any laws at all. I should drive more often.

If you wait until all the lights are 'green' before you leave home, you'll never get started on your trip to the top.

I'm not a fast driver. I've seen what speed can do.

If you look at the ability of a self-driving car to stay in the lane and not to speed and keep a good distance to the car in front of you, it actually does better than me.

I've never wanted to drive a car fast for the sake of it. I mean, I like nice cars. I've got the Bentley, I've had a Lotus, I've had a Rolls-Royce and a few Jaguars, including an E-type. But I'm not somebody for driving tremendously fast.

There is a constitutional right to travel. But when we pass speed limits and seat belt safety requirements … no one accuses us of “travel control.” Ignore the labels; the facts are your friends.

No, no I don't speed or anything. I drive a VW Touareg so.

We Americans, who invented traffic, are always being startled by the forms into which it has evolved around the world.

When you're driving on a normal track, you can see the braking point from 500 m. away.

It's crazy: when it's raining, it makes no sense to me that people drive 10 miles an hour faster than they normally would, but then the other thing that makes no sense is when people drive 30 miles an hour slower than normal.

Today, tomorrow and every day, we will see at least 2,000 young children killed or seriously injured on the world's roads. This is unacceptable, preventable, and we have to stop it. We have the vaccines for this disease: helmets, seatbelts, speed enforcement, safe road design. We just need to use them.

As far as the media goes, I'm driving in the left lane at 28 miles an hour.