But was there ever a good hardtop convertible? I personally liked the SL but it wasn’t exactly a mass market car. The new Miata isn’t really a hard top vert and the choice to make it not allow a rollbar was a mistake. Targas and lift tops (Jeep, Vette) I don’t count.

If you are in a place where there are no moose, having to avoid moose becomes not a problem at all. <shrug>. If you are in a place with moose, then the possibility of there being moose is taken into consideration when deciding what “speed appropriate for the conditions” is. <shrug, again>

Obviously the correct speed is the same for a 54' semi and a nimble sports car with big brakes.

Speed never kills. Losing tires; smashing into other cars; flipping a dozen times after catching a ditch; being unable to stop in time; being unable to have time to notice obstacles; losing traction due to maneuvering and spinning off into trees or abutments.

In the 60's in Ontario you would get ticketed for obstructing the flow of traffic if you drove too far below the speed limit.

Your local “collage" failed you.

Very much this. Speed rarely kills. Going too fast for the conditions, for the state of the car, or for the state of the driver kills. But speed is easy to measure and enforce...

Same here. It’s literally impossible to keep to the speed limit where I live because it’s all mountains. If you try to go the speed limit downhill, either you’re holding down your brakes the entire time and wearing those out, or you’re hoping you’ve downshifted into the right gear and that engine braking will keep you…

Speed limits are not set for safety in the USA and several other nations, they are set to bilk people out of cash.

Once you have lane discipline speed becomes almost irrelevant.

The anti-destination league led by the Insurance Institute for Higher Surcharges is likely all for it. The new urbanists and their control freak foundation funding sources will be for it.

“Enthusiasts are worried and, as the BBC reports, automakers and regulators can’t seem to come to an agreement for the least intrusive way to implement the tech."

Conventional wisdom says that the most dangerous drivers—and the ones who cause deadly or injurious accidents—are impaired, distracted or otherwise unaware. Speeding in and of itself isn’t the killer, although speeding often occurs while driving distractedly.

audible warnings

And orange carnival barker presidents.

This is a WTF blast from the past. You don’t see to many adds targeted at successful cult leaders, human traffickers, and televangelists these days.

Yeah, that’s pretty fucked up.

So these were rally “secretary’s cars”.

Ehhhhh... mostly, cold pizza serves for most purposes, but I’d bet that there’s a secret special microwaving method that would be tasty.

Hold up. Are we really putting this out there like it’s a legit contest rather than a shameless attempt by this company to get a year’s worth of freelance writing out of someone for a $500 travel stipend? Because that’s what this is. A goddamn unpaid internship. This is a cheap-ass company not wanting to actually pay…