SteveG
pfm Member
How many drivers are actually capable of driving at high speed safely?
It's also not really easy to train for, from a road use perspective. I've raced (and had a fair amount of training in both riding motorcycles and driving cars at race speeds) and also had some on-road advanced driving training (both from a military perspective as well as some civilian advanced driver stuff) however only some of it (where I was being trained by the police) was done both on-road and at speeds above the UK speed limits. That's one big difference about police advanced driving & riding training in fact i.e. that they can train on the roads and in excess of the limits.
Basically what I'm saying is that even if you have training and/or experience of driving fast it's not necessarily that applicable to on-road situations so not necessarily a justification for it being ok to drive fast. In fact my experience with a lot of advanced drivers (especially the IAM ones) is they're possibly the last group of drivers you'd want driving in excess of the speed limits. In fact quite a few of the police motorcyclists I've ridden with didn't overly impress me either.
BTW I'm not saying I don't speed - just that I wouldn't say that the advanced training or race experience I have had is any kind of justification for it being ok for me to speed but not others!