Dear Fellow Super Speeders of America,
We feel the need, the need for super-speed, but our country doesn’t feel our need, our need for super-speed. There is a war being waged against those who like to speed and endanger lives while driving. It’s ironic. America has some of the laxest gun control laws in the world and yet they are trying to pass laws that clamp down on super speeders – drivers who have more than 16 speeding violations in a single year.
Just look at the “media.”
In 2024, Washington, D.C. started the war on speed by passing the country’s first legislation that mandates Intelligent Speed Assistance (ISA) use for certain repeat offenders. ISA technology that uses GPS data, digital maps and cameras automatically stops drivers from exceeding the speed limit. It can be “passive” or “active.” According to a 2025 paper for the Canadian Association of Road Professionals, “Passive ISA systems display current speed limits on the dashboard, inform drivers when speed limits change, and issue warnings when the vehicle exceeds the limit while active ISA systems directly intervene by preventing the driver from exceeding the posted speed limit.”
Beginning in July 2026, Virginia state judges will be able to require drivers found guilty of driving more than 100 miles an hour to install ISA. Georgia recently passed ISA super-speeder legislation. A new bill in Washington State would require ISA for certain reckless drivers and make it a misdemeanor to tamper with the device. The New York Times reports that a bill, put forward by New York State Governor Kathy Hochul, would allow New York City to “install Intelligent Speed Assistance devices in the vehicles” of super speeders.
They say we super speeders make up only 1 per cent of the driving population but we’re much more likely to cause serious accidents, particularly near school zones. They’re right. According to new data from Transportation Alternatives and Families for Safe Streets, “The top 10 super speeders in New York State were caught by New York City’s school zone speed cameras an average of 179 times each, at least once every other day, with the most reckless driver receiving 259 tickets.”
In New York City, there are estimated to be 14,600 super-speeder vehicles. Anybody can be a super-speeder. Streetsblog reports that NYPD officer James Giovansanti has received 547 speeding tickets since 2022.
So, what’s a super speeder to do?
Head north.
We need to move to Canada, not because we hate U.S. President Donald Trump but because we need to move to a place where governments appreciate that while speed kills, it’s not worth getting worked up over.
When I say Canada, I mean specifically Ontario and Alberta.
There are no “super-speeder” laws being proposed in those provinces. On the contrary, last year the Doug Ford government passed “Bill 56 – Building a More Competitive Economy Act,” which banned all municipal speed cameras – also known as “automated speed enforcement” (ASE) devices – in Ontario. The ban included community safety zones and school zones.
BANNED!
I think it was the great stoic philosopher Marcus Aurelius who said, “They can’t punish you for speeding if they can’t tell you’ve been speeding.”
In the same way that Americans worship the right to bear arms, some Ontarians revere the right to speed, if the speed limit is deemed “too low” or unreasonable. To them monitoring speed is a “cash grab” and bad for the economy. Ontarians vandalize speed cameras, as they have along Toronto’s Parkside Drive. In Ontario, they kill speed cameras, not super speeding.
Alberta takes a mixed approach. Think of it as the “Bits & Bites” of ASE use. Photo radar is prohibited on all provincial highways and connectors. It’s allowed near school, playground and construction zones.
Super speeders of America, we need to move to Canada, the true north strong and free to speed. We are an abused and oppressed group of almost universally male drivers who grapple with a desperate need to compensate for our physical, emotional and mental shortcomings by playing F1 racer on highways on Sunday afternoons.
We need compassion. Look at the case of poor 22-year-old Brice Bennett, a motorcycle super speeder from Connecticut who was accused of multiple reckless driving infractions including reckless endangerment in the first degree. Prosecutors argued he had filmed himself 88 times on YouTube exceeding speeds of 320 km/h.
“That bike was being operated at speeds from 100 to 200 miles an hour in any given video,” said Owen Kivela, an assistant state’s attorney. “Multiple videos did show him traveling in excess of 150, 180 and 200 miles an hour.”