peed and a minimum of crashes at 5-10 mph above the average speed. The United States is reluctant to abolish speed limits for numerous reasons. One of the most outstanding reasons is the lucrative business of issuing speeding tickets. These citations raise millions of dollars for local governments annually. Without these funds, it is likely that America would be faced with increased taxes. Many law enforcement officers have a quota of tickets to issue monthly. This leads to a lack of integrity in the ticketing process. Frequently, an officer under pressure to issue tickets wrongly targets motorists. It is also believed that law enforcement officers would be of greater use to society elsewhere, rather than staked out at speed traps.The business of speeding tickets is also lucrative for automobile insurance companies, who capitalize from the damage to driving records. Each major auto insurance company has a statistician or two whose job is to make calculations about the drivers who insure with the company. They say that people with any type of traffic violations are a “high risk” insures. When you are given speeding ticket a certain amount of points are put on you’re driving record. Many times people who commute and drive long distances receive more tickets than people who drive less frequently do. This does not mean that they are a threat to other motorist. Those people should not be labeled as more likely to have an accident. They have the same chance as everyone else, only log more miles. If people accrue to many tickets there is a good chance that the state will revoke their license.8 Csaba Csere, the author of “The Steering Column,” a regular column in Car and Driver magazine, refutes the statistics that show an increase in highway fatalities on highways with increased speed limits. He asserts that “In 1998, speed still didn’t kill” he claims-The total number of miles A...
