Oh yeah i was just thinking, you know how they have limited our freedoms in cars because we are on public roads? Well if we start privatizing highways and toll roads then wouldn't we have more protections in our cars because we are on private roads? Something to think about as a legal argument as more and more states are selling off their highways or attempting to.

I totally agree. I preach this stuff to my friends, they look at me like I'm an idiot because they don't care. Despite the fact that cops will pretty much get into your car if they want, I still advise everyone I know to never allow a search even if they have nothing to hide. When you give permission to search the cops can ruin your belongings and there's nothing you can do about it, unless you said no and they searched anyway. I would say the War on Drugs is responsible for most of our erosion's of our rights. After all how often would cops ask to search your car if drugs were legal? Probably not as often as they do now. Because really how many people are carrying around other illegal items like guns? That pretty girl that just got pulled over might smoke weed, but I doubt she owns something else that's illegal.

I'm glad here in MD we don't have these inspections unless your selling your car. However we do have pointless VEIP inspections (vehicle emissions) that cost $14 because of the bay. Oh the air pollution, how will the bay survive. You used to have a huge tube put over your exhaust to measure the emissions, now they just hook a computer cord to your car and most things are exempt or N/A. Making it pointless, i understand why they originally started the program but with today's cars, it is just pointless and a waste of time and money. Why is my reputation number so low? I must have pissed off some people somewhere, but i agree and support most of the comments here. I don't understand this stupid rating system.

Great Story, I feel the same way about Marijuana Prohibition, but the time will come, eventually. No matter how long bad policies stay in place, over time they will be realized as bad policies and changed for better or worse and some quicker than others. If it wasn't for your group we maybe just finally repealing the 55 mph NMSL or still suffering with it.

Yeah, I hate driving in VA now, I almost got a reckless driving ticket. I was borderline and the cop didn't want to do that to me. I thought the law was found unconstitutional, but i believe they past another law that did the same thing basically, but was constitutional. Anyways it sucks. And when your a delivery driver it's even worse, people yell at you and motion you to slow, sometimes even when your doing the speed limit or even just 5 over. I had a guy tell me if he saw me going that fast on the road again he would break my window. He walked out in front of my car to make me stop, just to tell me that. He was yelling something like blah blah blah my 2 year old blah blah. The kid wasn't even close to the roadI wanted to tell him the next time he walks out in front of my car his child would be fatherless, but I didn't want to escalate the situation. What ever happened to personal responsibility?

Sadly cops nowadays are on a mission. My dad would tell me stories about encounters he had with the police in the past. And your right you could talk to them, they were personable. You could get away with things that now a days you would be spending thousands to defend yourself. Cops now a days are mean and don't know how to handle the public. Cops should be out there to keep the peace. Just because someone is breaking the law doesn't mean you have to arrest them. If you can resolve the issue in the field, for example "don't do this again" or "do such and such and we'll leave and let you on your way," then do that. Don't be so quick to issue a citation or arrest someone.

Yeah it is sad and traffic laws are not the only time politicians pull out the what about the children remark. We've been fighting a war on drugs or as I like to call it a war on freedom and the number one thing always brought up is I don't want kids doing drugs. Well guess what they are already doing them and often times its kids that are the drug dealers. But people are too stupid to realize that. They think if we legalize any drug that the masses will go out to the local drug store and start injecting heroin or snorting coke. When in reality people are not going to do that. Of course with this red light example it is if we get rid of the cameras more kids will be killed and more accidents will occur which is ridiculous. Just like that it is unfounded that if you increase speed on highways they too will become less safe which is also unfounded. The thing I have learned over the years is the correct solution to the problem is usually less obvious and more controversial than actual policies that are chosen. If anyone has ever taken a Physics class, then you know what I'm talking about. When I first took a physics class my world was turned upside down, the way i thought the world worked was not actually how it worked at all.

So what? Your telling me a 7th grader does not know what oral sex is? Really?! When I was in middle school we told each other all kinds of dirty jokes. We knew what sex was, what oral sex was ect. So what?! what's the big deal? Kids now a days know a lot more than people want to admit and if we can't give surveys to figure out whats going on with our youth than how will we be able to make sensible policies in the future? Stop sheltering your children, the world is what it is and I for one when I have children will show them what the world truly looks like, not this imaginary world with no drugs or sex.

That's the one good thing I can say about Maryland tickets is the fine on the ticket is the fine, there is no tacked on fees. Unlike in Virginia, even their repair tickets has fines and fees. At least in MD repair tickets don't carry a fine you just got to get your car fixed.

Yes, Hydrogen is flammable but the hindenburg burned so fast because of the paint that was used, the hydrogen didn't account for everything. Also hydrogen burns invisibly.

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As far as bicycles go, i try to give as much room as possible. I reallllllly hate bikes. especially on busy roads. But at the same time i want to be safe. MD passed a law last year that requires you to give at least 3 feet of space. which is quite a bit.

The driving slow thing, i swear they do it on purpose. One of my co-workers was on a delivery where he was caught behind a guy doing 25 in a 40! So he got all up on his ass. Then the guy got pissed and they actually pulled up beside each other and started arguing. The guy was pissed he was all up on him. While my co-worker yelled back well maybe if you weren't doing 25 in a 40 maybe I wouldn't be so close.

The waiting for green on a right turn on read pisses me off to no end. I mean there is no cars for like 3 miles and their just sitting there. What are you doing? eating a sandwich? Go Already. What are you afraid of? I'm not a big horn honker but maybe I should more often.

My grandmother drives slow, real slow. like slower than the limit, especially when shes talking. But she admits it and stays off interstate highways
because she is smart enough to realize it's safer for her to stay away. I commend her for that.

I was on a delivery the other day and this guy slowly walks out into the road, so now I have to stop and of course I'm wondering what the hell is he doing. He yells for me to roll down my window and starts yelling at me for going to fast over the speed hump and for speeding up after the speed hump. Telling me that kids run out into the road ect. Points to his 2 year old on the side of the road. Mind you when I came down the road the first time I was not worried about anyone even close to the road. Not only that on this particular stretch of the roads there is another parking lot and then the town homes. Anyways I was doing 35 mph tops on this 25 mph road. Then at the end of the one sided conversation he tells me he's going to break my window if he sees me do it again. I tell you the thing we endure as pizza delivery drivers is just unreal at times. Just because you have that car topper on your car everyone feels the need to put in their 2 cents about how you drive. Never mind their next door neighbor that goes careening down the road at twice the speed limit. Guess what we're all safe drivers, you can't have more than 2 points on your license to be a delivery driver. I assume some places are even stricter. If anything we're more likly to be better drivers than you are, being that driving is our job, you jerk. I wanted to tell this guy the next time he walks out in front of my car his child will be fatherless, but chose to not make the situation any worse than it was.