Speed Regulation Quotes

We may outrun By violent swiftness And lose by over-running.

Remember folks stop lights timed for 35 mph are also timed for 70 mph.

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

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.

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.

When the 55 mph speed limit came in and the oil crisis caused fuel rationing, the truckers began to look like the last American cowboys.

When you drive a car, either you manage it and feel it with the grip of the car, or, like me, you fix it on visual speed. If you do it through the grip, you lose it very quickly - because when the track changes, you can have scares. I do it visually, so if I am going too fast I fight to get the car back, but I do not do it by feeling the grip.

Besides Germany, the only countries that don't have speed limits are places like Nepal, where road conditions are so bad that a limit would be beside the point. In other words, it's a little crazy that this is even a topic for debate in Germany.