Why is speeding bad?

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Answer 1

Also, higher speeds impart a greater potential energy to the vehicle.  The more energy brought into a collision, the greater the damage.  Of course, the greater the damage, the higher likelyhood of injury or death.

Since traffic engineers take things like road condition, traffic and other factors when deciding on posted speed limits, driver who exceed those limits endanger themselves and others.

Answer 2

another lazy student that wants someone else to do their homework  NO!!!!!!!

Answer 3

It's not how fast you drive but how you drive fast that matters. Speeding by itself is not harmful.

Answer 4

Is just for safety.

Answer 5

Because it takes you longer to stop than it would if you are doing the speed limit.  Plus the amount of reaction time you would normally have is drastically reduced.  For example, if someone walks in front of you while you are speeding, it will take you longer to stop and you will have less time to react, thus you will most likely hit the person.

Answer 6

Speeding is a violation of law.  If you are obsessive about the rule of law, then any violation of law is bad.

That's the only real answer.

"Speeding" only means exceeding the posted or maximum speed for the particular road and conditions.  The posted speed limit is arbitrary (Think about it.  Is 65 safer than 64?  Why not 63?  Maybe 66 is really okay.), and based on the lowest common denominator -- the typical unskilled driver driving a car of questionable maintenance history.

We need this arbitrary number so that traffic enforcement officers have a standard they can cite in court to back up their traffic warrants.  Imagine an officer telling a judge, "It looked too fast to me!" or "On that stretch of road I think 47 mph is too fast."

The only speeding that is bad objectively is speed that is in excess of a speed that can be sustained safely, and the criteria that determine that speed are so many that it is impossible to determine it from one second to the next with any certainty.

Driving 40 mph where children are arriving or leaving a school is stupid and dangerous, and defining that as "speeding" is sensible.

Fifty or more years ago, kids with untested driving skills were dying in street races.  That "speeding" was stupid and unsafe.  The NHRA was formed to create dedicated drag strips where racing could be done in controlled, safe conditions.  It worked until urban sprawl shut down most of those strips, and the result is that kids are back on the streets racing and dying.

A geriatric with marginal vision who forgot to take his meds, driving a thirty year old car on worn-out tires, brakes that need repair, and a windshield clouded with mist because the defogger doesn't work may be unsafe at 15 mph on a winding road in holiday traffic, while an SCCA licensed racing driver in a well maintained high-performance car on fresh, properly inflated W-rated tires on a deserted desert highway may be safe at 170 mph.

Highway patrol officers who patrol interstates will ignore "speeders" who are moving with the flow of traffic.  I recently drove a three hundred mile stretch of rural freeway with my cruise control set at the speed limit.  During that run, I passed not one passenger vehicle.  They all passed me.  All those other drivers on that highway were "speeding."  Is that "Bad?"  I think not.

Answer 7

its not bad its just that it will slow down the economy

Answer 8

Speeding is NOT bad. Everyone with their answers have proven that... It is the unexpected situations and oblivious people that aren't paying attention to anything around them when they are driving... If a car pulls out of a blind drive right in front of someone doing 25mph or a tractor trailer enters the highway in front of someone doing 85mph, the reaction distance is relative. Granted mechanical failures can be greatly magnified by higher speed but again this comes back to people Not Paying Attention to their vehicle maintenance needs.. It's all subjective.

Answer 9

Look up reaction times and braking distances. You'll see a nexus  between the two.

Answer 10

Many accidents happen with speeding.

For example, speeding might cause you to hit and run which means the speeding driver hits the person or animal and run away from scene of crime.

For example, if you are speeding down the steep incline (similar to train losing control even thought brake is on, but somehow break loose at Cajon Pass), you would mostly kill the pedestrian if they were closing at crosswalk.

Answer 11

Stupid question?? The answer is simple your reaction time stays the same as you go faster you get less reaction time there by creaing a situation for an accident ask the guy that hit a cow about 6-7 questions after you .

Answer 12

Speed Kills.

Answer 13

because at a higher rate of speed you have less time to stop and less control of any vehicle,and this creates a very dangerous situation,and if any part of the vehicle fails and breaks or goes out at a high rate of speed it can cause you to loose control and cause an accident,it can cost you your life and maybe other life's also,my source for this information ,i have lost two really good friends that was drag racing and also lost control of their vehicle,speed cost them their life,so ask your self is it worth it,good luck.

Answer 14

Its not so much the excessive speed, but those that go UNDER the speed limit.  While the speed limit is 60 lets say and you are doing 70, you come upon a vehicle doing the speed limit, your closure rate is 10mph difference.  Now you come upon the moron in the fast lane doing 50, you just doubled the closure rate.  Its not safe at all to exceed or go under the speed limit anyway you look at it.  But for response sake, everyone assumes that every vehicle on the road is doing at least the speed limit or faster allowing you to make corrections when needed.

LOL below me.  I answered that one also.  What moron.  I dont believe he rolled his car then drove away unless he was stone cold drunk.

Answer 15

It's only bad if you get caught... because then you get a ticket.

Answer 16

Speeding is not "Bad or Good".  Speeding is an action.  It can be good if it saves a life, or bad if it allows a criminal to escape.  It can be good if it helps keep drivers awake or bad if it causes an accident.  Speed Limits are another subject.  They too are neither good nor bad.  Compare speed limits in different countries around the world, then you can come to a conclusion that best answers your question.