You could also argue if you're up in arms at the prospect of 70km/h on an open road that in major cities with congestion, even though the limit is 100km/h, you're not going anywhere near it anyway.
But, and this is where a touch of reality comes into it and Superintendent Steve Greally put his finger on it: let's worry about the idiots - they're the problem.
Forget the tourists, that rich source of whinging and moaning we've dipped into these past few years, looking for yet another simple solution to a complex problem.
Forget them he says, let's look at ourselves and our appalling habits, and he is right. Most of the crashes, the issues we face, are not speed-related or tourist-related. They're idiot-related.
Yes, they might involve speed, but it's idiots and speed that's the combination, not speed by itself. Any experienced, professional operator behind the wheel will tell you speed in isolation is not an issue.
Since joining Hampton Downs and taking my car round a track at 220km/h I have not crashed, will not crash, and have concluded I am vastly less likely to be in trouble on a track than I am on a road. Why? Because there are no idiots. There is respect and concentration and rules are adhered to, and - oh the irony - ever safer cars.
And yet, they've failed to find the answer to the moron in the drivers seat. But I can tell you having us go at 30 or 70 isn't it. It's a piecemeal, sticking plaster, clickbait, attention-seeking one-liner to a much more complex issue.
If you follow its logic, if we all did 10km/h, no-one would die, and we may as well get a horse and cart. It's not real, and probably more importantly it's not helpful.
Build better roads, test people to drive more than once in their lives, enforce the law more, take drink driving and drug driving seriously, crush cars, stick repeat offenders in jail.
I - driving 100km/h - am not the issue. Target the issue. Don't punish the vast majority of us that aren't the problem.
