DD>>> I agree, but is "exceeding the speedlimit" the same as 
DD>>> "speeding"?

PE>> Basically, if you can't stop in time for every emergency 
PE>> situation (including helicopters falling out of the sky), 
PE>> without your vehicle causing harm to another human, then you 
PE>> are speeding.  Just face it, whenever you go on the road, 
PE>> you take a chance with everyone else's life.  It is an 
PE>> acceptable risk to take, for the convenience a car offers.  

DD> Considering that I haven't had an accident where I ran into something 
DD> because of insufficient stopping distance, does that mean I haven't been 
DD> speeding all these years?

No, it means you were lucky.  I didn't say there is 100% chance of speeding
causing an accident.  Just that most deaths occur at high speeds.

DD> I have run into things once or twice in the last 29 years although not 
DD> directly due to insufficient stopping distance.  Both occasions were caused 
DD> by inattention (looking somewhere other than where I was going).  Both 
DD> situations were very low speed (one was about 5kph, the other about 20kph).

And how many of those would have been avoided had you been travelling at
1kph?  BFN.  Paul.
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