Let Meeses diagnose this with his 15 year old knowledge (or attempt to)
So, gravity causes objects to fall on earth. For instance, if you go skydiving, gravity is pulling you back towards the planet. Soon, you will hit terminal velocity. At this velocity, you become "static" like you say.
Gravity is causing you to fall towards Earth, which is an outside force.
Now, if there was nothing, such as in space with nothing acting on you, you would keep going to same speed in which you started. Newtons law states-
" Every object in a state of uniform motion tends to remain in that state of motion unless an external force is applied to it."
Now since there is no outside force causing the object to go faster, it simply can't. It will stay in motion, whatever way it is traveling, until that outside force is applied again. That is only if you used an outside force to PUSH IT IN THE FIRST PLACE.
And since we can't push a physical object, such as a vehicle, to the speed of light yet, it wouldn't never travel the speed of light or go faster than that.
