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I think they did a good job on the article. It should be brought up in the discussion board that speeding probably kills 10 times as many as driving 5-10 MPH under the posted limit. I use to live in KY and at the time I lived there the MINIMUM posted speed for interstate driving was 40 MPH and that was in the days of the 70 MPH maximum before they dropped it in the 70's to 55 because of the oil embargo. Of course back then I was in my teens and twenties and thought a car only had two speeds fast and faster. I still travel in KY some because my parents live there and I visit them a couple times a year when possible and know the speed limit on the interstates is 70 MPH now and there's probably still a 40 MPH MINIMUM. I also travel federal highway 68 a lot when I'm in KY and the speed limit on it is 55 MPH, but 90% or more of the traffic is driving at 60-75 MPH which is more dangerous for everyone than driving 50-55 like I do. I seldom travel the stretch of 68 between Hopkinsville, KY and Bowling Green KY without seeing at least one state trooper with a speeder stopped getting a ticket. So in the long run I'm coming out much better than they are, I'm saving gas, being safer, not getting a ticket that I'm going to have to pay, and making better time than the one who got stopped because he has lost all of his gained time and distance waiting for the state trooper to write him a ticket. I can drive from my house in NC to my parents house in KY, just over 500 miles at 55 MPH and it only takes me about 1 hour longer on the road than when I drove 65-75, because I'm able to keep a more constant speed where before I was always catching up with someone and having to slow down, then speed up, just so I could slow down again.
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