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Originally Posted by memason
I guess I'm wondering if all the folks expressing dissatisfaction about fast golf carts also obey the posted speed limits in their cars?
You ONLY drive the posted speed limit on the tollways too ???
Just saying ....  |
This is a good point. I believe a lot of the concerns are in regard to safe use of the golf carts and if they are really able to be operated safely at speeds over 20 mph. I think the answer is in the details of the law. Florida law states:
320.01 Definitions, general.--As used in the Florida Statutes, except as otherwise provided, the term:
(22) "Golf cart" means a motor vehicle that is designed and manufactured for operation on a golf course for sporting or recreational purposes and that is not capable of exceeding speeds of 20 miles per hour.
So when you are going over 20 mph in a golf cart you are not just speeding, you are driving a vehicle that is in violation of Florida law.
Automobiles are obviously manufactured to exceed speed limits because they travel on roadways with many different speed limits. If the law stated that an automobile was a vehicle that is not capable of exceeding 70 miles per hour you could still speed with it all day long on city streets.
Another point - the speed limit in front of my villa is 10 mph. I doubt that many cars, golf carts, delivery vehicles, maintenance vehicles, etc. obey that speed limit.
So - when is it legal for the average citizen to exceed the speed limit? But when does that same average citizen accept speeding as okay? I would say that most of us accept 5 mph over the limit on Interstate 75 as okay. We accept it, it happens all the time. But from these threads it is obvious that not many of us accept 5 mph over the limit in a golf cart as okay. (BTW, if you are doing 75 in a 70 zone you are about 7% over the limit, if you are doing 25 in a 20 zone you are 25% over the limit.)