Gubernatorial Candidate Wants to Sell Speeding Passes for $25 825
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If Nevada gubernatorial candidate Eugene "Gino" DiSimone gets his way, $25 will buy you the right to drive up to 90mph for a day. DiSimone estimates his "free limit plan" will raise $1 billion a year for Nevada. From the article: "First, vehicles would have to pass a safety inspection. Then vehicle information would be loaded into a database, and motorists would purchase a transponder. After setting up an account, anyone in a hurry could dial in, and for $25 charged to a credit card, be free to speed for 24 hours."
proportional to boring (Score:5, Funny)
A comedian (forget who) once said that the SL in a state should be proportional to how boring that state is. In Nebraska, for example, the speed limit should be roughly 200 MPH.
Re:Cars Don't Cause Accidents... (Score:5, Funny)
Isn't that the purpose of the test you take when you get your driver's license?
Organ Donation? (Score:3, Funny)
Moral of the story? If you need an organ, move to Nevada.
I like him. (Score:3, Funny)
He's a capitolist asshole. The spelling is deliberate look it up.
But for my sake how about rear mounted, electrically fired black powder cannon loaded with chain mail and a fake license? It's cheaper and it does the exact same thing!
Did the little piggy cry wee, wee, weeeee (Score:1, Funny)
90MPH! Wee, wee, weeeeee! We're gonna need a stronger pinwheel!
Re:*sigh* (Score:5, Funny)
Well, at least they still have the sense of speed. This means the magnitude of the vector is still there.
90mph? Did the little piggy cry wee, wee, weeeee (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Cue increase in accidents (Score:1, Funny)
>> hardly anyone ever uses their turn signals to show intent rather than stating the obvious.
Shock news just in tonight!
Americans can't drive. Oh no, wait, this is news?...
This is awesome! (Score:5, Funny)
Think of all the other things they could apply this to:
Just think, all of the budget concerns could be over!!! Genius!!
Re:Cue increase in accidents (Score:2, Funny)
By "UK roads" do you mean some kind of oval track?
Come on, the UK isn't that small.
Re:proportional to boring (Score:5, Funny)
And I'm here to tell you that it's way, way too slow. Even photons bitch about how long it takes to get through Nebraska.
Re:What could possibly go wrong? (Score:3, Funny)
Translation: roads where the speed limit is too low.
Re:Cue increase in accidents (Score:5, Funny)
Can I buy a pass to temporarily raise the legal blood alcohol limit? Can I buy a pass that changes the definition of premeditative homicide? Or oooh, what about genocide? Cuz I got some plans. It would probably be expensive, but man what a night that would be! Nevada's sitting on a goldmine here.
Re:This is awesome! (Score:1, Funny)
$1000 - Be the governor for a day.
The going rate is higher than that, but it's been possible to pay for the privilege for quite a while now.
Re:Cue increase in accidents (Score:2, Funny)
What we do know is that Germany has much higher highway speeds, yet much lower highway accident rates (1/3 of US) and lower absolute number of fatalities (1/40 of US at 1/4 the population)
Well of course. All the idiots in Germany have already been killed.
Re:What could possibly go wrong? (Score:5, Funny)
So it's like the network neutrality issue but with cars.