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The most facile argument against speeding is the teacher inspired “It’s not big and it’s not clever.” Well it is, because everything we have done as a species since we first left the trees has revolved around being better, faster and more efficient than whatever went before. It is part of the human condition every bit as much as our instincts to feed ourselves and to reproduce.

There is no civilisation in the history of mankind which has profited from slowing itself down or hindering and even reversing this desire for improvement, and no area of our lives where we accept that things now are slower, less efficient and worse than they were in the past. We expect year on year improvements in every area of our lives and we normally get them because we obsessively strive for them in every area.

Cars have kept pace with this, and the worst, most basic car you can buy today is better in almost every way than the vast majority of cars made in 1965 when the speed limits were introduced in the UK. A modern car in good condition is safer cruising on the motorway at 100mph than any 1960s car at 70mph, yet the limits have been lowered and the enforcement of them stepped up relentlessly. On quiet, dry motorways in the right car with a competent drive, 120mph is quite manageable.

We could raise the speed limit to 90 which would be a good start, 120 would be real progress, but that will still become dated in a few years. As cars, roads and drivers improve there is no reason not to expect safe cruising speeds to carry on going up. Why not 150 or 200mph when it´s safe?

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