Bmws stopped doing 118 on I-5

[codemonkey]

I think they are really going to start cracking down on I-5 soon.

http://www.katu.com/stories/84876.html

They busted like 6 people on I-5 doing over 100 last weekend.

:SNSign: members beware!

 

[Unbrdld07]

Better them than one of us....
The fines are not worth it. OUCH!
Why doesn't my sig show on some posts? Just wondering.

 

[codemonkey]

Why doesn't my sig show on some posts? Just wondering.

I've wondered that myself. I notice people's sigs only show once per page, not every post in the thread, but also I notice mine and others appearing and dissapearing. Not sure really.

 

[Unbrdld07]

I've wondered that myself. I notice people's sigs only show once per page, not every post in the thread, but also I notice mine and others appearing and dissapearing. Not sure really.

At least I'm not alone....... Go figure, must be the respond to quote.

 

[tehnick]

The troopers note that a new Oregon law on speeds of 100 or better calls for a minimum license suspension of 30 to 90 days and an $1,100 fine.

Son of a... Better start watching my ass. I tend to drive about 75 average on I-5. Pegged my speedometer once on my way back from Seattle on I-5 outside Kalama. Blasted by 2 Washington State troopers while doing it... For some miraculous reason, I didn't get pulled over. I would have been screwed 6 ways from Sunday.

 

[JEAN]

A biker was stop doing 120, north of salem.
They really out,i guess for spring time.

 

[breakemlose]

revenue making is all it is

 

[JEAN]

the video say they will be 10 more troopers .
It still missing 120 troopers!! for the state of oregon.

 

[fellamansteve]

IMHO, if you're going that fast, especially at night, you deserve to get whatever is coming to you, and you're lucky if it's just a ticket. Call it revenue generation or whatever you want, but maintaining those those kinds of speeds on the street is excessive and it's simply not safe. I was driving across the I-90 bridge between Bellevue and Seattle at about 11PM one night and there was a large wooden crate in the middle in the road. The guy in the lane next to me, going not even 5 mph above the speed limit (which is 60 in that spot), barely had time to react to it because you can't see something like that until it's right in front of you. If you're going 100+ at night and come up on something like that, kiss your car goodbye and you'd be lucky if you came out if it unharmed yourself. And that's only a stationary item on the road. Throw in the unpredictable actions of another driver and who knows what can happen. I hate to be blunt about it, but it's just plain stupid in my eyes.

 

[saleenster]

IMHO, if you're going that fast, especially at night, you deserve to get whatever is coming to you, and you're lucky if it's just a ticket. Call it revenue generation or whatever you want, but maintaining those those kinds of speeds on the street is excessive and it's simply not safe. I was driving across the I-90 bridge between Bellevue and Seattle at about 11PM one night and there was a large wooden crate in the middle in the road. The guy in the lane next to me, going not even 5 mph above the speed limit (which is 60 in that spot), barely had time to react to it because you can't see something like that until it's right in front of you. If you're going 100+ at night and come up on something like that, kiss your car goodbye and you'd be lucky if you came out if it unharmed yourself. And that's only a stationary item on the road. Throw in the unpredictable actions of another driver and who knows what can happen. I hate to be blunt about it, but it's just plain stupid in my eyes.

Very well said. Totally agree with you

 

[Unbrdld07]

I agree too, it was one thing to take mine up to 120 in daylight but not around here at night. I ve had deer jump out in front of me doing 35mph down my home stretch of road and still almost hit her because she almost ran into me stopped.

 

[Scooby5.0Doo]

the thing is it happend last year too. it was a caravan of bmw's going to bimmerfest west. some people just dont learn

 

[99GTtony]

revenue making is all it is

Do you honestly believe that? Not that going 118 is stupid, and unsafe, and putting other people in danger.

 

[Jon]

Makes me laugh

It is so funny how it's always wrong when someone else gets caught doing it.

 

[96SVTpilot]

Here in the US we have been conditioned by the propaganda machine to accept the premise that "speed is bad" from a young age. This is narrow point of view. Under the right conditions, traveling at a high rate of speed can be quite safe. Sadly, we have none of those conditions here in our country. For example.......

1) Our road construction and maintenance are not up the task. Road maintenance on the interstates vary from good to p*ss poor. Our highways are not constructed for triple digit speeds. Many turn radiuses are too tight to support going faster than our ho-hum speed limits.

2) Our drivers licensing standards are laughable. It is too easy to get a license here. If we properly trained our drivers we would have less accidents, lower insurance, and drivers would have the skills to go faster safely if they needed to.

3) Our standards of what make a car safe are a joke. Car makers can make cars that will safely maintain high speeds, but they don't have to. Our (yawn) 55-70 mph speed limits make that unnecessary. I would feel much safer doing 100 in a BMW then doing 70 in a Kia Rio. In addition, some states have no required vehicle safety checks whatsoever. We have all seen the rustbuckets on the highways leaking oil, tires wobbling, blowing smoke, with a muffler looking like it could fall off at any second, and asking ourself "Why is this vehicle allowed on the streets?"

I would invite all those think speed is inherently unsafe to visit a counry like Germany, where driving is a privilege. There, drivers are properly trained, the cars actually have to be roadworthy, the highways and cars are built for
speed, and drivers actually respect one another (most of the time). I felt much safer commuting to work there at 110 mph than I do here at 70 mph on I-5. The difference is night and day.

 

[codemonkey]

It is so funny how it's always wrong when someone else gets caught doing it.

That's kind of what I was thinking. Good thing nobody here has done triple digits on the freeway.

 

[breakemlose]

That's kind of what I was thinking. Good thing nobody here has done triple digits on the freeway.

Very true. Us mustangs guys know better than to speed on the open freeway of i-5 to salem. It saves gas that's why there originally became a speed limit on the freeways anyhow.

 

[fellamansteve]

To address the comment that it's funny how it's always wrong when it's someone else getting caught: I haven't been caught doing it because I haven't done it.

96SVTpilot, you make good arguments, but they're not helping the case for these guys any. This isn't the Germany and they weren't driving in ideal conditions...it was 1 in the morning, it's dark outside...you can only see as far ahead as your headlights shine, and that's not enough distance to react at 118 mph.

 

[74courier]

its better just to leave all the high speed/stupid driving for the track and closed events then turing your car into a death missle on public roads

 

[codemonkey]

they weren't driving in ideal conditions...it was 1 in the morning, it's dark outside...you can only see as far ahead as your headlights shine, and that's not enough distance to react at 118 mph.

I can agree with that. Night time is the worst for stuff like that.

its better just to leave all the high speed/stupid driving for the track and closed events then turing your car into a death missle on public roads

I can agree with that. However, I too am guilty of "stretching the legs" on my car once in a while. It's when I'm on some backroad somewhere and there is nobody around. I agree that's not much better, but I'm not gonna lie here.