Speed limit exists for a reason and it has nothing to do with how powerful and responsive a car engine is....what's wrong with 80km/h limit on a 3 lane highway? it's not like the 80km/h speed limit is for the whole highway stretch...it's just for some part of the highway and normally at places where traffic is expected to be heavy traffic or have external factors like near KLIA where there's always possibility of livestock crossing the road (granted this is due to irresponsible owners)...

and think about it...if everybody drives ~60km/h near the toll booth won't the line be shorter instead of longer...instead of driving fast and have to stop and crawl in line at the toll both (which wastes fuel) why not drive slowly nearing the toll booth and arrive at the booth with almost no queue? the buildup area near the toll booth is extremely wide and it was design that way to accommodate the large number of cars nearing the toll booth.


I've seen 80km/h limit on highways in Australia and Australians seems to have no problems obeying it despite most of them having cars with big engines (3-4 Litre engines are normal there)...they even have 40km/h speed limit on ramps leading to the highways and everybody seems to be observing them...the speed inside the city centre is only 40 km/h and still people observe this because enforcement is there......in Malaysia we have people driving 100 km/h even in parking lots...

and guess what...Australia has a road fatality rates per 100 000 inhabitants per year of only 5.7 compared to 24 for Malaysia and the population is not that far apart (22 vs 28 million)....and they do have extremely fast cars there...

Granted attitude is 1 factor in the number of accident rates in Malaysia but without proper enforcement, how can we educate people? in Malaysia we rarely see people got fined for littering due to lack of enforcement and we know how that turn out to be...people litters everywhere even at places with "Dilarang Buang Sampah" signs....in NYC the police even issues summons to people jaywalking and not crossing at the proper crossing points...but littering and jaywalking does not endanger life (well the jaywalker endangers his own life so serves him right if he got hit by a car) but road accident does....

but 1 thing i can agree with is the proportional penalty...but why just stop at RM300? why not go all the way up to RM1000 or even higher? That should serve those flouting the law right...I got friends in US who was fined close to USD1000 for driving just 15mph over the speed limit inside town area that the payment had to be done in instalments and that was granted only after a meeting with the judge...

so seriously i don't see what's the fuss with obeying the speed limit and no, the speed limit we have in Malaysia is not too low for our supposedly "fast" cars...