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Learn more at RWJF.org. Hello and welcome to Car Talk from National Public Radio with us Click and Clack to Tappert Brothers,

and we're broadcasting this week from the unconstitutionally vague department here at Carthog Plaza.

Well, figure.

Here's the story.

I mean, I'm sure everybody wants to know about this.

But as you know, we have been somewhat critical over the past several years of the state of Montana and the fact that their

speed limit says, be reasonable, do whatever you want, drive it, whatever speed you want to drive

as long as it's reasonable and prudent as it's reasonable and prudent. And evidently, somebody,

probably some Montana lawyer sued, he must have got a ticket.

He sues the state and he says, look, you told me to be reasonable and prudent.

And I was.

And they said, no, you weren't.

So he takes it all the way to the Montana Supreme Court.

And the Supreme Court says that you can't have a law that asks people to be reasonable

and prudent when they're driving because it is too vague. Well, duh, no kidding. I mean, this is

exactly what we said two years ago, whatever it was that they instituted the stupid law.

So now, I mean, I guess they're working on it right now, but during the Christmas season,

they had no speed limits.

Right.

Because this thing was unstruthational vague.

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