Nothing enhances road safety like cops on the patrol. I love it when traffic slams on their brakes when they see a well-positioned cop just after a bend in the road. For the next 30 seconds or so every car is within 5 feet of the next one. That cop just made us all safer.
Then, when that cop decides to pull someone over for doing 12 over, all subsequent traffic has to brake and merge into one lane. Not to mention the cop's and the detainee's lives are now more at risk.
Is the person who is driving 12 over breaking the law? Of course. Does that mean they are causing unnecessary danger to those around them? Not necessarily; the flow of traffic is certainly a large factor here.
In contrast, which situation causes the most danger: a driver going 12 over in the appropriate flow of traffic, or a sudden lane merge in a 60mph zone with no fore warning due to the cop pulling someone over?
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