I'm 52 years old and have driven since I got my license when I was 16. I've never once driven in any emergency situation where I felt I needed to floor it. In

I'm 52 years old and have driven since I got my license when I was 16. I've never once driven in any emergency situation where I felt I needed to floor it. In any kind of accident situation it is almost always better to brake early and bleed off speed so any accident will have less kinetic energy and not more (a common driver mistake on r/IdiotsInCars is to honk and swerve and not brake). And I've [safely and without accident] driven many vehicles which couldn't accelerate very fast at freeway speeds so trying to speed away from something wasn't much of an option. The situations where I miss more power is when you get stuck behind some idiot truck doing 40 in the next to left lane and have to get around them into much faster moving traffic and need to punch it, which being governed to 80 mph won't impact your ability to do that at all. Inside of cities with good 911 response times it is better to have the ambulance drive to you rather than you attempt to drive to the hospital. They have the training and the flashing lights to let everyone know why they're breaking the law along with being more emotionally detached from the situation. And in some cases people think that the hit and run they were just in constitutes and 'emergency' and they start to chase down the fleeing vehicle like they're the police and they should just not do that and stop putting the rest of the public at risk. Even if you're involved in a road rage incident with someone chasing you, then you still should just fairly calmly drive to the nearest police station or similar place where you can get help, and speeding at 100 mph isn't going to help you at all and just place everyone else at risk. The need to exceed the speed limits is pretty narrow, and likely just rural situations where it makes sense to drive to meet the ambulance. I'll agree that these kinds of laws should apply to cities and towns with good 911 coverage and they need exceptions for rural areas (which also means no speed governors on those long straight roads in texas and wyoming everyone gets concerned about as well).