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<strong>Title: </strong> <a href="/link.php?id=28759" target="_blank">Teen charged after trying to race unmarked cop car</a> (click to view)

<strong>Category:</strong> <a href="/news/topic/18-law--order" target="_blank">Law & Order</a>
<strong>Posted By: </strong> <a href="/modules.php?name=Your_Account&op=userinfo&username=kitty" target="_blank">kitty</a>
<strong>Date: </strong> 2008-01-05 07:38:42
<strong>Canadian</strong>

[martin14]

suspended ??.. yank it and tell him to come back in three to five years when he grows up a little..

[DrCaleb]

"Woolley said, “He was playing tough guy until he got stopped. Then he cried until his parents got there.”

That is just funny. After seeing Sgt. Wolley on "Canada's Worst Driver" it just makes the point sharper. He has no sense of ha-ha when it comes to dangerous driving.

[xerxes]

What a little bitch.

[stratos]

Ok heres the thing if cars are only allowed to go 75mph, not sure what the top limit in Canada is, WHY then do the car makers make the cars able to go to 120 and higher? Why do they not get some sort of fine for having cars capable of going more then 20 mph over the highest speed limit. I bet you would soon see a lot less speeding tickets.

[xerxes]

The most common speed limit in Canada is about 60 mph.

[DrCaleb]

stratos stratos:

Ok heres the thing if cars are only allowed to go 75mph, not sure what the top limit in Canada is, WHY then do the car makers make the cars able to go to 120 and higher? Why do they not get some sort of fine for having cars capable of going more then 20 mph over the highest speed limit. I bet you would soon see a lot less speeding tickets.

Yea, this question always comes up.

First, highest gear + lowest RPM = fuel efficiency. You need to be able to get to higher RPM's to be able to accellerate. Therefore the car will always be able to speed.

Second - how does the car know the speed limit?

Third - what about personal responsibility? Does the car need to make decisions for us?

[Wullu]

A lot of it has to do with gearing stratos. To have a vehicle that is capable of acceleration in excess of an over weight turtle, you nead to allow the engine to rev high enough. Too keep fuel consumption down and so as to not blow up the engine, the gearing needs to change for higher speeds. The same engine that will go to 5500 rpm in lower gears, will go there in higher gears.

That is kinda, well really simplified, but that has always been my understanding.......

[Blue_Nose]

Yeah, the engine topping out at the speed limit would really suck

However, they could certainly use governors to lower the max speed to, say, 150kmph on all vehicles.

[hurley_108]

Wullu Wullu:

A lot of it has to do with gearing stratos. To have a vehicle that is capable of acceleration in excess of an over weight turtle, you nead to allow the engine to rev high enough. Too keep fuel consumption down and so as to not blow up the engine, the gearing needs to change for higher speeds. The same engine that will go to 5500 rpm in lower gears, will go there in higher gears.

That is kinda, well really simplified, but that has always been my understanding.......

That sounds right. A good car will always have at least a little power in reserve, even at the highest speed limits like 110-130 km/h. But as far as a maximum, I know my Corolla is restricted to 164. Don't ask me HOW I know, I just do. =]

[Wullu]

Blue_Nose Blue_Nose:

Yeah, the engine topping out at the speed limit would really suck

However, they could certainly use governors to lower the max speed to, say, 150kmph on all vehicles.

True enough. With today's cars run by their computers, it would not take much to add the code for a governor.

Of course, there would be re-programing devices on the market an hour later.......

[xerxes]

They do that in Europe a lot.

[Wullu]

hurley_108 hurley_108:

Wullu Wullu:

A lot of it has to do with gearing stratos. To have a vehicle that is capable of acceleration in excess of an over weight turtle, you nead to allow the engine to rev high enough. Too keep fuel consumption down and so as to not blow up the engine, the gearing needs to change for higher speeds. The same engine that will go to 5500 rpm in lower gears, will go there in higher gears.

That is kinda, well really simplified, but that has always been my understanding.......

That sounds right. A good car will always have at least a little power in reserve, even at the highest speed limits like 110-130 km/h. But as far as a maximum, I know my Corolla is restricted to 164. Don't ask me HOW I know, I just do. =]

I think we know

[Regina]

hurley_108 hurley_108:

That sounds right. A good car will always have at least a little power in reserve, even at the highest speed limits like 110-130 km/h. But as far as a maximum, I know my Corolla is restricted to 164. Don't ask me HOW I know, I just do. =]

My Blazer's engine cuts out at 99mph and your foot needs to be taken off the accelerator pedal before you can try again............ummmmmm.......at least that's what I've been told.

[sasquatch2]

Modern highway tractors with these black boxed diesels are frequently governed to say 105 Kph.

The same computer prevents the engine rpm from exceeding a set rpm. This results in being able to achieve 100 kph in at least 2 gears if not 3.

Such controls should be easily put in place for passenger cars. Although these computers can be tweaked----a simple "ride programme like test" could have the cars computer scanned and fines levied for modification.

The funniest incident was the OPP commissioner Julian Fantino busting a guy for the max while driving himself to London on 401. Wooley is cuddly compared to Fantino.