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What's a little extra 5 or 10 mph on the clock?

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[–] MBech@feddit.dk -2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

So your point is, I'm in my lane, driving the speed limit, and some asshat with shit for brains drives like a fucking lunatic comes up behind me, now I have to drive like a fucking lunatic too?

[–] sem@piefed.blahaj.zone 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

No.

However i have been on roads where the posted speed limit was something like 45, but the average speed limit of the 10+ cars around me at any time was 65 / 70, due to the road's design encouraging that speed. (This was when i was traveling in Long Island, NY).

I could go against the grain and drive 45, and that would be perfectly legal, but likely more dangerous than trying to match the slowest speed of other cars around me.

[–] MBech@feddit.dk -1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

In my world, driving 45-55% faster than the speed limit is driving like a fucking lunatic, so yes, that is what you're getting at.

[–] sem@piefed.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 day ago

It is so weird then that in the USA, there are places that driving "sane" singles you out, and is more dangerous.