Video- guy on motorcylce

[Topaz]

YOu gotta see this guy, crazy or what, he's doing 299 Km or around 186 miles per hour on the Trans Canada Highway and he video it. I will say he's eithr a very good driver or very lucky someone didn't move in front of him. Now, I wonder after the ticket if the insurance company will raise his insurance and probably end his need for speed? http://www.ottawacitizen.com/Motorcyclist+shoots+video+travelling/6474434/story.html

[eyeball]

I can't understood why such high performance vehicles are even legal for use on public streets. It's like allowing the use of machine-guns for hunting.

[huh]

There's no such thing as skilled enough on a highway.

[Bonam]

I dunno about motorcycles, but I know that in a car, going ~200km/h doesn't feel much different than ~110 km/h if you're on a straight flat highway like big stretches of the Trans Canada are. Obviously not a good idea with the slow moving traffic around you though.

My view is that it's not speed that is most dangerous, but differences in speed between vehicles on the same road. If everyone is going 200km/h, they are all standing still relative to each other. Long straight stretches of highway should have much higher speed limits than they presently do. I think it would actually be safer. Right now you have speeders going 30-50 km/h faster than people who are trying to stick to the speed limit. Raise the speed limit by those 30-50 km/h, and people will be traveling at more uniform speeds.

[bleeding heart]

I dunno about motorcycles, but I know that in a car, going ~200km/h doesn't feel much different than ~110 km/h if you're on a straight flat highway like big stretches of the Trans Canada are. Obviously not a good idea with the slow moving traffic around you though.

My view is that it's not speed that is most dangerous, but differences in speed between vehicles on the same road. If everyone is going 200km/h, they are all standing still relative to each other. Long straight stretches of highway should have much higher speed limits than they presently do. I think it would actually be safer. Right now you have speeders going 30-50 km/h faster than people who are trying to stick to the speed limit. Raise the speed limit by those 30-50 km/h, and people will be traveling at more uniform speeds.

Might not the dangerous non-uniformity of vehicles' speeds remain intact--but at a higher (and so more deadly) average speed?

That is, instead of 110's vs 140s, might we not have 130s vs 160s?