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Do you obey posted speed limits?

Do you obey posted speed limits?

  • Always, I trust public safety professionals and care for my safety and of those around me.

    Votes: 7 16.7%

  • Usually, sometimes my time is more important than the safety of those around me.

    Votes: 8 19.0%

  • Never, what to public safety experts know anyway.? Even if I am not in a hurry I go faster

    Votes: 3 7.1%

  • Other

    Votes: 24 57.1%
  • Total voters
    42
  • Poll closed .
Eriech

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The other day a car passed me like I was standing still. (I was going the speed limit) The passenger was wearing a mask. I assume the driver was too. Saw some irony. Wondering how many of you all getting the jab and wearing masks for public safety routinely flout the posted speed in defiance of safety expert guidance?
 
Nope. But I haven’t gotten a speeding ticket in 16 years, which means means that whatever degree of speeding it is that gets a cop’s attention, I don’t do it.

I also don’t wear a mask while driving, which is relevant to the discussion because reasons.
 
In city, towns I drive the posted speed limits.

On highways with little to no traffic at times will go 3-5mph over.
On highways with traffic I will go with the flow in the lane I am in. This is generally over the posted limit.

On multi lane highways I tend to use the far left lane only to go around a slower car. I tend to drive in the middle lane.
 
I will go max 10 over on the highway, and maintain at least 3 seconds between myself and the car in front of me, preferably 4.

Lots of frustrated, medicated people out there on the roads - it's all about buffer space.
 
SouthernDemocrat said:
In residential areas, always. On the highway, no more than 7 to 9 mph above.
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I think cops go by unsafe-for-the-conditions and giving-the-middle-finger-to-The-Man standards when deciding who to pull over. I don’t do either of those. When in a residential area I drive as if somebody’s idiot kid is going to jump out from in between parked cars at any moment.
 
Cops will say, hey, I catch who I can. If you think you can speed because that's the flow of traffic, you're wrong. They'll just catch who they can out of that flow.

I go the speed limit because I am not in a rush. Who wants to be the guy who speeds by you and ends up with you at every traffic light anyway. I will forego being called a dumbsheet by my fellow drivers and just go the posted speed.
 
Eriech said:
The other day a car passed me like I was standing still. (I was going the speed limit) The passenger was wearing a mask. I assume the driver was too. Saw some irony. Wondering how many of you all getting the jab and wearing masks for public safety routinely flout the posted speed in defiance of safety expert guidance?
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Its a good point. I tend to go about five to ten miles over the speed limit on the interstate/ highway assuming conditions are decent. I reduce my speed by five miles per hour for every impediment to traction or vision. If I go 70 on a clear perfect day, I go 65 if its dark, 60 if its raining and dark etc. If its bad, I just follow a truck in the left slow lane and let that contain my impulses.

I am very careful in city and residential areas or on curvy highways roads etc. I never speed there.
 
Location, location, location.
In the US I stay fairly close to the posted speed, I have only gotten one speeding ticket in my life, and that was 24 years ago.
In Europe and Canada, I follow the speed limit, Spain is the worst because the Highway patrol expect payment in cash on the spot.
It was explained to me at the car rental place that they will allow you to be followed to an ATM machine, but that is the limit of what they allow.
While I did not do so, in Italy the speed limit is clearly taken as a suggestion, but the base highway speed limit is about 83 mph.
I saw plenty of the big road cars that had to be going well over 100 mph.
 
Oh, and around twenty years ago some police chief came right out and openly admitted that cops meet a quota for giving out speeding tickets, effectively blowing the lid on the world’s single worst kept secret.

To this day I think about that admission and am driven to rage because I never bookmarked that article and have never been able to find it again.
 
How quaint:

found one driver bursting the speed limit with a mask on? ummm, SO WHAT?

I wonder if we can use reverse logic then and say that every time someone speeds by me way over the limit that isn't wearing a mask that it proves that anti-maskers are all morons?

but hey, it must be a slow news day, so let's find another SOMETHING to get riled up about.


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Playground, School zones and construction areas yes. Residential side streets i drive slower than the speed limit

On other roads typically 6 mph over the speed limit. That is around the level that police will or will not give speeding tickets.

When passing of course I will go much faster
 
Rickeroo said:
Lots of frustrated, medicated people out there on the roads - it's all about buffer space.
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Good driving is passing one clump of cars and staying between them and the next clump as long as possible until one must pass the next clump.

I look to my front, 100 yards away, and there's a clump of ten cars riding each other's ass. I look in my rear view and 100 yards away is another clump with ten cars riding each other's ass. No one is near me. No car within 50 meters. I'm on cruise control pulling away from the clump behind me ever so slowly.

That's good highway driving. Speed is irrelevant. It's all about getting into the space between the clumps.
 
Austria has a lot of speeders.

I am no exclusion, as I am 34 years old, but I got quite a bit „lamer“ in terms of speeding the past decade.

After getting the license, we were bunch of really crazy kinda anti-social drivers, routinely overtaking cars and trucks (even several in a row) in risky situations and often going twice the speed limit.

I once almost crashed into counter traffic, just before being able to sneak by a truck.

My older brothers, who started to drive in the late 1980s had even riskier maneuvers at the time and crashed several of their cars at the time.

In the 1970s, there were 3.000 road deaths in Austria a year vs. 400 now.

Things have improved a lot, and youngsters these days are not as crazy as we were. Or my brothers.

Traffic has increased a lot here, due to tourism and car stock in general, so it’s become very hard to overtake.

Fines have increased significantly, as have punishments for speeders.

I hardly overtake cars these days (only tractors and slow-driving tourists such as Germans or Dutch).

As for speed limits, I usually abide them, but sometimes go 10 or 20 km/h faster. I only got a few tickets the past 15 years or so, despite radars being installed along roads like mushrooms.
 
ecofarm said:
Good driving is passing one clump of cars and staying between them and the next clump as long as possible until one must pass the next clump.

I look to my front, 100 yards away, and there's a clump of ten cars riding each other's ass. I look in my rear view and 100 yards away is another clump with ten cars riding each other's ass. No one is near me. No car within 50 meters. I'm on cruise control pulling away from the clump behind me ever so slowly.

That's good highway driving. Speed is irrelevant. It's all about getting into the space between the clumps.
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Huh, I never thought about it that way before.
 
I go with the flow of traffic so I don't have people constantly trying to get around me. I refuse to tailgate at any speed, even though people use that space to cut in front of me. Tailgating is worse than speeding.
 
Never. Speed limits are for old people.

Also: stay the **** out of the farthest left lane if you wanna be slow.
 
Eriech said:
The other day a car passed me like I was standing still. (I was going the speed limit) The passenger was wearing a mask. I assume the driver was too. Saw some irony. Wondering how many of you all getting the jab and wearing masks for public safety routinely flout the posted speed in defiance of safety expert guidance?
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Always. (snipped your personal modification)

I use cruise control a lot. Set it to the speed limit and don't worry about it.
 
I am pretty sure that driving too slow on interstates causes more accidents than driving too fast.
 
Aunt Antifa said:
Also: stay the **** out of the farthest left lane if you wanna be slow.
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I call them "keepers of the speed". They're horrible people.

They create the clumps. Clump makers. Clump leaders. I hate them.

They're out on the highway acting like everyone's boss because their personal life is out of their control.
 
This is an important thing to know:

People who drive like assholes do so for control because their personal life is a pile of shit. So take pity on those losers.
 
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