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I am 25 years old. I usually drive 10 mph over the limit on major roads, most major roads in DFW are 4/6 lane divided. Now on highway, I usually drive as fast as someone in front of me. Usually I am 10-15 MPH over. However, few times I managed go 40 or 30 mph over (100 mph to 110 mph)! It is really had to get chance go 110 mph on freeway due to traffic though.
I'm 22 and I drive the speed limit, or sometimes under.
And yes, I am that person that accelerates like a tortoise and enrages you to the point of tailgating.
10 over on the highway, sensible around town. Which in miami, is figurative and not really related to the speed limit. Driving the speed limit can get you shot down here! (not really, but it will get you run over, and in daily road rage issues with people).
I'm 58, and how fast or slow I drive depends on the situation.
For example, when commuting up and down I-95 to DC in "rush" hour traffic, I did what everyone did - drive like hell whenever I could, knowing that it would all end much too quickly and I'd just be sitting there. We call that "keeping up with the flow."
I'm retired now, and I don't do that any more.
Highways - generally, speed limit + five. I'll go faster if I come up to a "rolling roadblock" ... vehicles bunched up together maintaining the same speed ... I just don't feel safe being in the bunch.
City/suburbs - speed limit, and maybe just a little bit more. This depends on the specific road and circumstances ... for high-density residential areas, I go a bit under the speed limit, and really give my eyeballs a workout looking for kids/pets running out into the street.
I'm 22 and I drive the speed limit, or sometimes under.
And yes, I am that person that accelerates like a tortoise and enrages you to the point of tailgating.
So the question is, why? It's more dangerous to drive like in traffic that than to drive fast. You're really not being safer or saving more than a penny or two in gas per week.
Highways - generally, speed limit + five. I'll go faster if I come up to a "rolling roadblock" ... vehicles bunched up together maintaining the same speed ... I just don't feel safe being in the bunch.
you know what sucks...I remember reading in online traffic school that driving within a cluster of traffic can indeed be more unsafe than out in the open...but guess what happens if you get the attention of the revenue generation patrol by pulling ahead of the cluster...
just another way that enforcement patterns create unsafe driving behavior...
23 years old. Due to red light traffic cameras put on highways and through our city---I drive 60 mph (whether it's 55 or 60) on highway. I drive speed limit in town unless it's 25, then I drive 30.
I'm 22 and I drive the speed limit, or sometimes under.
And yes, I am that person that accelerates like a tortoise and enrages you to the point of tailgating.
I never ever tailgate someone driving in the slow lane. They may have medical or mechanical issues...like driving on a spare etc. I was once tail gated badly by a semi while driving on a spare with my infant son in the back seat. I called the trucking company number, he was probably fired.
However, just the other day on a 4-lane road posted 45mph I got stuck behind one lady texting and swerving a 30mph for miles alongside a utility truck. I honked, nothing worked....
Same thing happened on the interstate, guy on a cell phone in fast lane going 55 in a 65. He then sped up to 80+ after gumming up traffic for 10minutes or so.
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