Raising Speed Limits Cost Lives
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I'm cognizant of camping and have had it happen several times. I generally drive 5 over and am in the left lane only when passing. It's usually someone who is traveling 20 over and can't be patient enough to let the person going 5 over complete the pass. It does not motivate me to speed up, I can say that.
If you get a little love tap it was me, just enough to let you know im there
counter point German Autobahn.
"The question of safety on the Autobahn depends very much on who you’re talking to. In 2019, the German Federal Transport Minister, Andreas Scheuer, claimed that Germany’s roads were ‘the safest in the world.’ There are reportedly 1.74 deaths per 1 million vehicle kilometers driven on the Autobahn. For reference, that number is 3.38 in the US"
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it was awesome driving in ND a few years ago where it was 70mph on the rural 2 lanes.
Texas has many 2 lanes with 70 mph limits, and some with 75 mph speed limits. Then again, these are usually areas with very little traffic.
it's the same out in rural ND. was surprised as they are really narrow winding roads along the hills out there in SW ND. but was great to get to and from site there. Edit: Went through the road on google maps and it's 65 all the way from SD to ND on that highway, but was still rural 2 lane.
Illinois plates? 99% of those with Illinois plates on the interstate drive like idiots.
Experienced that in west Texas between the SW corner of Oklahoma and and New Mexico
Made many trips from Hill Country down near the border. Beautiful black 2 lane pavement with a 75 mph speed limit and no traffic whatsoever. Nothing but Mesquite trees and rolling hills on either side. Very relaxing.
I'm often confused why people feel like they can't accelerate while passing on the interstate. "I'm going 70mph and not 1mph faster! Even if I'm camping here in this trucks blind spot!".
If you are driving 70mph, and you're passing someone 69mph, it takes roughly 35 seconds to pass.
If you accelerate to 75mph, it takes roughly 5 seconds.
It's actually safer to accelerate.
If you are driving 70mph, and you're passing someone 69mph, it takes roughly 35 seconds to pass.
If you accelerate to 75mph, it takes roughly 5 seconds.
It's actually safer to accelerate.
You could avoid that entirely by speeding up an extra 5 mph. As the poster above said, it's safer to accelerate in this scenario.
A lot varies by the job, I usually end up driving 40-50,000 miles a yr. Some days 10 some days 600. I drive 9 over on 4 lane and 6 over on 2 lane. On some really empty 2 lanes in north central Iowa my foot will get a little heavy. Those roads can easily be driven at 70 as lightly traveled as they are.
Now you've hit a pet peeve of mine on the interstate, the semis that are governed to 65 or 70 then they get side by side and take miles to pass. They need to have a passing override on those. They back up traffic a bunch on the interstate.
Truckers who do this are some of the biggest ******** alive.
Just drive the .000009 MPH slower and quit holding the whole damn world up.
First off, username checks out. Second I do as needed, but if I’m going 80 in 75 I don’t always want to go 85. The guy who is going 95 who gets on my tail and flashes his lights because he has to slow down to (horror) 80 is the problem in this situation.
The amount of times I see a driver sitting in a trucks blind spot for far too long while passing in DSM is wild. I know they think they are being safe by going the speed limit but it couldn't be farther from the truth. Speed up and pass and then get back over and slow down to the speed you want to go. Every time you merge to pass someone you should be accelerating to make the pass quicker.
Speed doesn't matter, are you passing or are you not? It's not your job to govern the speed of others, however it is your job to get out of the passing lane.
I’m not governing their speed. I am passing slower vehicle at what is in my judgement a safe speed to do so. If I don’t feel comfortable accelerating to 90, I will pass as quickly as I can and move over. It’s a shared passing lane.
Again it’s the guy going significantly faster than all the other cars and thinks it’s his god-given right to permanent exclusive use of that lane at his preferred speed and drives aggressively close to cars not meeting his criteria who is the one creating the danger.
