TMD: Vengeance

Sometimes I wish I had a rocket launcher attached to the hood of my car. Or perhaps a couple 44mm assault rifles sticking out of the sides of my car. Or even an EMP projector of some sort. Why would I wish for such things? Because there are way too many under-qualified "drivers" out on the road. People that suck at driving. People that cause traffic. People that cause accidents. People that cause dangerous situations on the road.

Is it safer to go 20 miles over the speed limit or 20 miles under the speed limit? Let's weigh the situation. You're going 20 miles over the speed limit. If you are on a freeway and you crash, you are essentially dead. Now, if you are going under 20 miles the speed limit on the freeway, your chances of death are much lower. With that being said, imagine the traffic you are causing by going under 20! Cars will be tailing you, people will be getting angry, people will be changing lanes to pass you, you will cause road rage, you will be affecting people merging onto and off the freeway. I have bolded the things that cause traffic accidents above.

In essence, the only way you can crash by going 85 mph on the freeway is if YOU are an idiot and you misjudge the distance from your car to the car in front of you and you break too late and rear end someone. By going 85 mph, you are doing a couple of good things. 1. You are passing people. This lets people know where you are so even if they were about to change lanes, you will only be in their blind spots for the duration of the time you are passing them, which is roughly 3 seconds. If you were pacing someone at speed limit and you were stuck at their blind spot, then that increases the chances of you getting into an accident. 2. You are passing everyone. You leave behind the groups of cars. Less cars = less chance of an accident. You don't get into an accident with another car when there's no cars around you.

But if you're going 45 mph on the freeway, you are putting others in danger. You will cause traffic which will make it more difficult for cars to merge onto the freeway behind you, or merge out of the freeway. Lane changes will be more dangerous because one lane is going significantly faster than the other while both lanes are congested. People will be getting angry at your slow driving, and their judgment and behavior will negatively affect their driving.

With that being said, I would like to have those weapons on my car so that I could destroy the bad drivers. Not kill them. But damage their cars enough so that they don't drive. You think that's unfair. You think that I'm being selfish. You think that I'm too violent. Those people need to work, they need to get to places as much as we all do, you say.

Well I have news flash for you.

Public transportation. Helps the economy. Less pollution. More exercise.

America should thank me.