Alberto is just giving the average knee jerk reaction to speed law BS. It is obvious that he hasn't spent 5 seconds actually thinking about speed laws and how they become assigned to roadways.

You're right in that speed laws are in general a means of gathering revenue. Here in Texas it is an actual fact that in our traffic code the section regarding speed regulation mentions strictly commercial vehicles, and zero mention of privately owned vehicles.

Do our judges honor the letter of the law? Nooooooooo!

But, anyway, any objective examination of the nation's apeed laws will reveal that they are arbitrarily assigned and arbitrarily enforced, evidence offered is your cite of the fact that "traffic enforcers" will tell you that they ignore the signs and give motorists leeway in accordance with their arbitrary personal judgment.

Further evidence is offered in recent history with the arbitrary lowering of the speed limits on national highways to 55 MPH and threatening any state that didn't follow suit with a cutoff from federal highway funds, to the arbitrary raising of those speed limits some 20 years later back to the 65 and 70 MPH levels they had been. All of that and it had nothing to do with safety.

Alberto, I think, must be a standin for Gilduck, since he hasn't added his infantile BS to this discussion yet.

However I always wonder why economist are made out to be so gloomy, I've met many economist and most of them crave excitement in their life's much like the main character in the movie.

So, should a cop see you speeding, he is justified in shooting you just as though he had seen you in the process of cutting down a cafe with an AK-47?

Or are all crimes not the same? Hell, most don't even care about minor traffic violations. Even the states generally have admitted at one time or another that traffic tickets are just sources of income, not safety concerns they are particularly worried about.