XPost: comp.mobile.ipad, comp.mobile.android   
   From: liamoconnor@example.com   
      
   On Fri, 28 Feb 2014 16:03:02 -0500, nospam wrote:   
      
   > exceeding the speed limit is not in itself dangerous.   
      
   I must agree.   
      
   If a Ford Pinto and a BMW 750i were to be neck and neck   
   along a four-lane highway, and a deer unexpectedly   
   dashed in front of them, at any highway speed, I would   
   expect the BMW to be the "safer" car (drivers equalized).   
      
   I always tell my kids, when we hear "speed kills", that   
   it's an idiot's argument. Speed doesn't kill; otherwise   
   simply going 75 miles an hour would kill more people.   
      
   Going too fast for the vehicle to be kept under control   
   when something unexpected happens, and not anticipating   
   that unexpected event (e.g., going around a blind curve)   
   is VASTLY more dangerous (it seems to me) than speed alone.   
      
   But, law enforcement, being what it is, has nothing else   
   to go by other than speed (I don't doubt that going 130mph   
   on a 25mph road is a prescription for disaster - but it's   
   reckless driving that actually is the major contributory   
   factor).   
      
   But I digress from the iPad cellphone issue ...   
      
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