Perhaps I’m unusual but I am only speeding because everyone else disregards the speed limit in my area, and it would put myself and my family at increased risk if I didn’t go with traffic.
I’d much prefer to go slower for the fuel economy.
I rarely check the speed limit. I always go with the flow in order to avoid accidents. It's downright dangerous to drive the speed limit in some highways.
I usually go slightly faster or slower than most everyone else. It ensures i dont do my entire drive stuck in one of the packs that everyone seems to get caught up in. I'd much rather have half a mile of space between me and the next car than go the same speed as everybody else.
This doesn't work in cities, or other states, but i spend my longest drive times going between cities in texas anyways.
This right here is what defensive driving is supposed to look like. If you have the option to distance yourself from the other cars on the road, that’s always best.
It baffles me seeing a group of cars on the road all bunched up with less than a second between them going 75. If there’s a hazard on the road that the cars behind don’t see, they’re all going to crash into each other when the guy in front slams his brakes.
Driving is all about awareness and predicting what others might do. I just assume at any point, anyone could need to suddenly brake hard. Plan accordingly and position yourself defensively.
work a job that requires the work vehicle to not go five over the speed limit and it feels like we are crawling going down any road, highway, or interstate
speed limits should be thrown out the window at this point and are only benefiting police
Yo, I'm alive because of speed limits.
and am about dead because of them
not being allowed to go more than five over and everyone else is going ten or more likely over ten miles an hour
coming down hills especially in Tennessee it feels like the people behind me are going to cream me
if there were no speed limits could at least not have that worry
places like South Carolina refuse speed limit cameras stating privacy concerns
without everyone adhering to said speed limits then only the cops are benefiting from them and they become useless
Your argument for not having speed limits is that a portion of other drivers speed and this isn't enforced? Not that it should be stricter, or the limit lowered?
not a portion it is the majority of the drivers we are on the road with do not follow road rules including speeding
when speed limits are lowered very small group of drivers that adhere to the speeds set suffer due to bumper humpers and road ragers
not safer
If speed limits were taken away, every crash would be fatal
nobody on the road follows them as it is
constantly getting bumper humped
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