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Do we no longer feel the need for speed?
| 题名： | Do we no longer feel the need for speed? |
| 正文语种： | eng |
| 作者： | Steve Gooding |
| 摘要： | Thrill seekers might identify with the much-quoted Aldous Huxley description of speed' being 'the one genuinely modern pleasure,' as he put it in his book of collected essays called Music at Night, published in 1931. Speed and speeding are ever-present topics in the road safety debate. I suspect our willingness to design our towns and cities around our collective Love of travelling swiftly in our motor cars is on the wane. In many places 20mph is the new 30mph - in Wales the concept of designated 20mph zones is giving way to 20mph becoming the default limit in built-up areas. Has speed lost its allure as a 'modern pleasure'? Certainly not if you find yourself Leafing through the auto-enthusiast press, where authors have Lately become entranced not so much by the green credentials of electric cars as for their astonishingly fast acceleration. The so-called 'entry level Testa Model 3 can whisk its driver from 0-60mph in a shade over 5 seconds and has a top speed of around 140mph - twice the highest legal limit we have in this country. Even our elderly Honda Jazz, inherited from my Mum, could top 100mph, in the unlikely event that we felt inclined to enter it for a track-day at Brands Hatch. What does all this mean for our relationship with the statutory speed Limits we currently have in place? Department for Transport figures suggest that in free-flow traffic on motorways about half of all cars exceed the limit at some point, with a similar proportion being on the wrong side of the law on 30mph roads. How is it that we have somehow come to regard the speed limit as being more advisory than mandatory? Maybe it's because inadvertently straying above the limit is so easy in modern cars. Beyond that, maybe it has something to do with the Likelihood - or perceived likelihood - of getting caught. |
| 出版年： | 2022 |
| 期刊名称： | Highways |
| 卷： | 91 |
| 期： | 2 |
| 页码： | 11-11 |
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