55: A Meditation on the Speed Limit

When I read on Left Lane News that our wonderful Senator John Warner was actually considering putting the speed limit on our interstate roads back to 55 ... I was appalled--to say the least. And I'm sure SWAC Girl would agree. I remember driving through Georgia a number of years ago where they did have a 55 mph speed limit. It was horrible. No one paid it any mind and went, on average, 75. But heaven forbid a driver go 80 -- only then was he pulled over - to be charged with reckless driving. Warner needs to watch a film created by a group of Georgia State students in 2006. 

They follow the law and go 55. In an extraordinary act of public obedience, they wind up more in danger following a ridiculous law than they would if they broke it. Said Andy, one of the students who headed up this project, "Honestly I'm just happy that no one got hurt...cause I mean it really had the potential to be dangerous. Which is really, again, the point. It was dangerous because we were obeying the law..."

Watch below the short film, 55: A Meditation on the Speed Limit.

It would do well for Senator Warner to watch it too...