Speeding Ticket on GA 400, 87 in 65

[IdiotPilot]

After driving around many other parts of the country, people in Atlanta do drive faster. Going 10mph over here barely keeps you moving with the slow cars in Atlanta. Elsewhere, 10mph over felt like warp speed compared to everyone else. Doing 87 where it's 70mph isn't really that hard to do either. But now that the SS laws are in, I am careful to stick to 10mph over. Honestly, I like to move a bit faster than the flow as it allows me to be in more control of who is around me. I don't trust people blowing by my side constantly or flying up behind me (when that happens at 10 over, those people are much more obvious and are far more likely to get caught). I also hate when people ride 2-3 cars side by side and form a rolling roadblock...which causes people to form nose-to-tail lines and prevent cars from changing lanes properly.

[neil0311]

Originally Posted by IdiotPilot

I don't trust people blowing by my side constantly or flying up behind me (when that happens at 10 over, those people are much more obvious and are far more likely to get caught). I also hate when people ride 2-3 cars side by side and form a rolling roadblock...which causes people to form nose-to-tail lines and prevent cars from changing lanes properly.

The problem you have is people riding in the left lane, instead of passing and moving back over, and also these morons who need to be one car in front, so they race up the right lane and then shoehorn themselves into the left lane, without any signal of course. Half the time they end up getting stuck in the right lane, and in the process other people end up tailgating to try and "lock out" the offending driver who eventually ends up in the same spot in traffic they were originally in. All they had to do is stay in lane and do a constant speed.

It's a mix of ignorance, lack of courtesy, and arrogance, and it absolutely is more pronounced throughout the southeast. Southerners may be more friendly or passive-aggressive when they meet you face to face, but behind the wheel some are just plain aggressive. Again...there are rude and aggressive drivers EVERYWHERE...but they just seem to be the majority and the norm in the south, except when they need to be, like while making a left turn....then they're timid and cautious.

[IdiotPilot]

Oh how I do agree.....

[convextech]

Not to mention she was a teenager. They should have taken her to jail and scared the crap out of her the first time, so she'd think twice before doing it again, possibly killing herself and other innocent folks in the process.