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

  • MBech@feddit.dk
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    2 days ago

    Then people should stop passing, and realise an ekstra 5 mph isn’t going to get you to your destination any faster?

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      Good luck telling that to your average moron on the road

      We don’t live in fantasy land where common sense exists and we have to work around that

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        Sure, but just because they are morons, doesn’t mean I have to drive faster than what I deem is safe.

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          The safest speed is nearly always the average speed of traffic, this is well studied…

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            Can’t argue with facts with someone that goes off feelings

          • MBech@feddit.dk
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            That is true, but that doesn’t mean I feel safe driving as fast as other drivers. It doesn’t mean I feel confident in my ability to react in time, if something was to happen a few cars ahead. Is it statistically safest? Absolutely, but that doesn’t mean everyone is equally safe going that speed.

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              If you don’t feel confident driving the usual flow of traffic you shouldn’t be driving

              So many times I’ve had to slam on brakes to let an idiot get back in their side after a pass because some slowpoke idiot is doing 60kmph on a 100kmph road and a whole column is passing them

              If you don’t speed tf up you will get yourself or someone else killed

              When you’re alone on the road drive whatever speed you like

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                We’re generally talking about people driving over the speedlimit on this post. Someone doing 60km/h in a 100 km/h zone isn’t the point of discussion. Someone driving 120 km/h in a 100 km/h zone is the problem. You can’t blame the people simply following the laws for the actions of people breaking the laws.

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                    1. What’s most safe, everyone driving 100 km/h or everyone driving 120 km/h? 100 km/h, so it’s not the slow drivers that are unsafe, it’s the idiots driving faster than the limit.

                    2. Are you seriously asking people to risk a fine, their drivers license and depending on their job, their livelyhood, just because you’re more important than the law? In this economy?

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      Yeah but if you’re the odd one out, you’re the problem.

      If everyone is going too fast for you, you should use a slower road and not be a danger/impediment.

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        I think that’s a very backwards way of thinking about it. If you’re being safe, but a bunch of people are being unsafe, and bring your life in danger, that’s not you being a problem, that’s you being a victim.

        If people start waving knives around at random, and telling you they’ll get closer to you, if you don’t also wave a knife around, then that’s a hostage situation, not people wanting you to be safe.

        • 87Six@lemmy.zip
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          You’re not being safer by driving slower, your base premise is wrong

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            My base premise is faster drivers being the source of slower drivers being unsafe, not the other way around. Thus the slower drivers are the victims of this, and shouldn’t be blamed for driving slower, and definately shouldn’t be encouraged to driver faster, just because a bunch of assholes think they’re more important than everyone else.

            • Boomer Humor Doomergod@lemmy.world
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              They should be encouraged and enabled to not drive at all.

              Slow drivers are a big reason why I want free and abundant public transportation.