Fun story. I'm driving home on the highway in very low traffic. And if I see someone I slow to an appropriate delta. I'm not trying to kill or get killed passing and weaving. I drive an old 911 and am cruising doing like 95mph. For reference I'm in summer sports tires and this is a very reasonable speed for this vehicle assuming you aren't around others.

I pull up behind this guy slowing down as I approach. Doing 65 in a 70 in the passing lane. He sits in the left lane for like 40 seconds. I'm not being aggressive, I got behind and saw him look into the rearview mirror and gave him a good 100ft. Finally I pass him on the right.

This dude speeds up to my passing speed, probably 110 at that point and gets right up on my ass. And I mean right on it. So I speed up to create some distance.

This crazy dude was full throttle trying to keep up with me at 115 in his little Sentra tires at an absurd speed for that vehicle because I passed him after being pretty damn patient.

[–] Cort@lemmy.world 20 points 7 months ago (2 children)

cruising doing like 95mph. For reference I'm in summer sports tires and this is a very reasonable speed for this vehicle assuming you aren't around others

Max speed limit in the US of A is 85mph so that is in fact not a reasonable speed.

If you wanna drive your fancy Porsche fast take it to a closed track you absolute piece of shit

[–] IsThisAnAI@lemmy.world 11 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

🙄👌👍 and weed is definitely a schedule 1 drug.

Plenty of drivers in countries with speed laws based in sanity handle this as their daily commute. But yeah I'm definitely way more dangerous than an 18 wheeler on 12 hours of driving doing 80 at 20x the force 🙄.

Math fucking time!

A 95000lbs truck crashing in. 5 s at at a rate of -8m/2 produces 35000 newtons of force.

My car needs to produce nearly -30m/s2 crash acceleration to match.

[–] BluJay320@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 7 months ago

Did you miss the “not around others” part?

Posted limits are just arbitrary numbers when you’re alone. As long as you’re in control of your vehicle, you’re fine.

The Germans realized this and that’s why the Autobahn doesn’t have a posted limit aside from specific areas.

[–] ProgrammingSocks@pawb.social 12 points 7 months ago

Nobody was right in this story

[–] JoMiran@lemmy.ml 6 points 7 months ago

Central Florida drivers as a whole.

[–] Frozengyro@lemmy.world 5 points 7 months ago

Sounds like a pico meter!