Is it too late to send Ed Rendell, 63, back to driver's ed? We're shocked, two weeks after New Jersey's governor nearly lost his life during a highway crash at 91 mph, that Pennsylvania's chief executive has not learned the lesson that speed kills.

Gov. Rendell, whose Cadillac has been clocked by state troopers at speeds exceeding 100 mph nine times since 2003, according to the Philadelphia Daily News, said some astonishing things last week.

"Sometimes we adhere to the speed limit, sometimes we don't." he said. "On many of Pennsylvania's highways, if you adhered to the speed limit, you'd be a safety hazard."

The real safety hazard is a governor's state-police chauffeured car barreling down the interstate at speeds that normally would reap hefty fines from tickets written by those same state police. Does anyone see a double standard here?

"I've told my troopers that I don't want them exceeding 80 unless they need to pass or unless there's some real exigent circumstances," the governor continued. Oh. So 78 or 79 is OK?

Ed Rendell may feel invincible flying down the turnpike, but the travelers who share the lanes with him are certainly not. The governor needs to rethink his cavalier attitude toward breaking the laws of the road. Or someone should take away his keys.