Why is doing 60mph round a sweeping country bend any "safer" than driving at 150 in a straight line where you CAN see whats up ahead?
Get off your soap boxes, you've been reading too many 'speed kills' posters. Speed doesnt kill, accidents and bad driving kill. Next time youre "legally" going round a bend at 60mph, take a moment to think what would happen if you met yourself coming the other way on the same side of the road, overtaking a cycllist, at the same speed - 120mph closing speed - Game Over.
So, 150 on a straight empty road with clear visbility as far as the eye can see - OR - braking hard on a bend just before hitting another car head-on? Neither scenario could be called safe, but the illegal one is a site safer than the legal one. Or to put it another way - the limit on a DC is 70mph. It's still 70 when it's snowing with 50 yards visibility.
I have had an indicated 145-150 bannanas (love that phrase) with the shift light on, on an EMPTY M1 racing a WRX (standard) at 05:00 on a Sunday morning. The road was bone dry, straight, conditions were good and we were respectful and kept an empty lane between us. Now I KNOW that was a damn site safer than any B-road blast at any legal speeds you care to mention. The biggest risk was a mechanical failure.
PS I'd love to say I kept with the Scoob inch for inch from 80-140, but that would be a racing tale so we wont go there
My own personal golden rule about these things is - if you dont like it dont read it, and certainly dont download a 20mb video and then bleat on about it. Spanners.