Fast Cars and Freedom

Fast cars and freedom go together. A fast car give you freedom in some ways. Other freedoms are more important, of course, but fast cars and freedom are one of the things that is still there – but is being eroded.

Freedom used to be considered vital to the survival and growth of nations not under the repression of Communism. Now, though all the things we thought were important in a free society are under threat - and fast cars and freedom are under threat like many other freedoms.

Cars much safer now

Over the past 30 years, the braking and safety of cars have increased in huge leaps and bounds, but we are still fettered by speed limits introduced to suit cars that we would now consider unsafe! At least, many of them would be considered unsafe. Now it is safe to drive fast in a fast car and get freedom!

What do I mean by fast cars and freedom? I mean being able to drive faster than 65 or 75 mph on wide, safe roads. I mean being able to drive at 150 mph on roads that are miles from anywhere in deserted areas, which like deserts and other uninhabited areas. Not on very narrow and bad roads, but where roads are good. In other words, speed limits can be set to suit the roads and the modern vehicles.

No need for the old speed limits

Whatever speed was considered safe in 1975 you can add 20-30 mph on open roads and it would still be safe today. We'd be able to combine fast cars and freedom again! I'm not against reasonable speed limits in urban freeways and motorways, but there is no need for speed limits in less congested areas. A good example of where there are speed limits outside built-up areas is the Northern Territory of Australia. Distances between towns are large, so they realised that if there were speed limits people would not travel as it would take too long to get anywhere. That would be bad for the economy, so no speed limits..

Once you have this freedom you can enjoy driving fast with all sorts of cars – not necessarily cars capable of 200 mph. In fact, with a car that can only do 140-150 mph – like a Ford Mustang, BMW 330i or a Honda S2000 - you can loads of fun so long as they leave you in peace!

We'd then enter a golden era of very fast cars and plain fast cars. Yessir, fast cars and freedom go hand in hand.