What Next For The NHTSA? Will LaHood And His Cronies Bring Back The 85 MPH Speedometer?

In the 1970s the Carter administration prohibited speedometers from indicating speeds over 85 miles per hour. The idea was around before Carter, but his people implemented it.

Regulations require some justification. The justification was, people might not drive fast if they didn’t know how fast they were going. After some hand-waving and pulling numbers out of orifices it’s possible to fabricate a number of accidents and deaths per year prevented and call that the benefit of the regulation.



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Joe_Limon - 5/20/2011 11:08:22 AM

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Isn't this idea even more dangerous? Speeding is one thing, but if you don't even know how over the speed limit you are, how do you predict how your vehicle is going to behave?

fourmccs - 5/20/2011 11:49:56 AM

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Wow! Blaming accidents on the read out of a speedometer. These people must be geniuses. Or morons.

uaw_lax - 5/20/2011 11:57:46 AM

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"What Next For The NHTSA? Will LaHood And His Cronies Bring Back The 85 MPH Speedometer?'

a dumb 009 article no surprise here.

HSCenterconsole - 5/20/2011 1:42:34 PM

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Nanny state, beloved by Democrats, strikes again.

bfghemicuda - 5/20/2011 6:25:04 PM

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Turd in a punch bowl