Should fast acceleration be included in the speed limit?

How?

Not the same thing; Maximum speed is what the speed limit sign is for, limits for automobile speed which can be measured and acceleration is a calculation of change in speed for a period of time.

I think momentum should be measured instead of velocity. This way only lighter vehicles will be able to travel faster.

Meanwhile those powerful heavy luxury cars capable of doing 150mph or more will have to trundle along in the slow lane.

@ibstubro I don’t know. It’s a physics question.

@Kropotkin Great idea.

Burning rubber and high acceleration is already a violation in California. It’s called “exhibitionist speed”. Been on the books for years, it’s how the cops can put a halt to drag racing from a red light up to the speed limit.

^ I’m aware of this bullshit law. Similar nonsense is found in other jurisdictions under names like “Display Of Acceleration.

The worst part is that officer discretion allows for wide open interpretation when applying this “law” to a situation. An officer can just decide that I was simply having too much fun with my car and nail me for acceleration, both linear and lateral. (My car has been set up by me to be especially good at the latter).

Even more offensive is that the cop is calling my driving ability into question. I’ve had years to become familiar with what my car is and is not capable of. I drive without distraction, I scan far down the way to anticipate potential problems. I employ the technique of occular driving, etc, etc.

I know what “off camber” means, what “decreasing radius” means, what “trail braking” is.

Can’t you go harass some twat in their off the rack Camry that’s reading the sports page?

Kalifornia, yeah, I used to live there. Fucking Nazis.

I put a Japanese domestic market Integra Type R intake on my “lesser” Integra motor. This required an adapter at the throttle body. Emmissions called it a “spacer” and flunked my visual inspection.

Go to hell all of you Philistines.

No, acceleration should not be. Neither should speed, frankly.

Reckless driving and endangerment should be enforced, and that could possibly include either speed or acceleration, when it’s actually causing a problem.

Otherwise, except in areas where there really needs to be a limit posted for safety, and the limit is actually dangerous to exceed, it’s just an excuse to mess with people and practice legal highway robbery, and to lord authority and rules righteously over people, and so on.

Why? What purpose would it serve?

@Buttonstc So I can sleep at night, people are always screeching tires by my window at night.

So do you think you’re the only one? Apparently your neighbors have figured how to deal with it.

Welcome to reality.