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I don't really get mad for someone choosing to obey the speed limit. If I need to pass on a small road, I wait for a passing zone and pass. People who drive below the speed limit on small roads do annoy me though. I understand that the limit is the upper limit and some roads don't have a minimum limit so technically they aren't breaking any laws. However, they do create a dangerous situation because the common understanding is to drive the limit. Coming around a curve at the speed limit of 55 mph to find a car driving 30 mph is dangerous.
On the highway I move to the passing lane and pass.
The only time I get annoyed is when someone slows down the passing lane because they camp in it. I'm not one to try to control others speed limits by blocking the flow of traffic and I appreciate it when others show the same courtesy. In those instances, get out of the passing lane.
It can be more dangerous to hold up drivers behind you than to go a little over the posted limit. The limit posted is for all vehicles. Do you really need to travel the same speed as a giant RV or a lifted pick up truck or a guy pulling a big boat, to be safe? Probably not. However causing large numbers of people to pass you on a two lane road, can be a huge risk. Especially if you are holding up a line of cars and they all pass at once like sheep.
A resulting collision may be entirely their fault legally, but that will not make your leg grow back. If you can avoid an accident by speeding up 5 mph - do it!.
What aggravates me is getting stuck behind someone with an unusual load, boat, or whatever, and they drive 25 mph in the 35 zone, then 35 in the 45 mph zone, bump up to 45 on the 4 lane collector where the speed limit is 55, and get on the freeway and drive 60 mph in the 70 mph zone. If your load will safely move along at 60 mph, it will safely move along at 35 in the 25 mph zone and if you can drive 45 on the collector, there is no reason to go 45 in the portions with a 45 mph limit.
It can be more dangerous to hold up drivers behind you than to go a little over the posted limit. The limit posted is for all vehicles. Do you really need to travel the same speed as a giant RV or a lifted pick up truck or a guy pulling a big boat, to be safe? Probably not. However causing large numbers of people to pass you on a two lane road, can be a huge risk. Especially if you are holding up a line of cars and they all pass at once like sheep.
A resulting collision may be entirely their fault legally, but that will not make your leg grow back. If you can avoid an accident by speeding up 5 mph - do it!.
What aggravates me is getting stuck behind someone with an unusual load, boat, or whatever, and they drive 25 mph in the 35 zone, then 35 in the 45 mph zone, bump up to 45 on the 4 lane collector where the speed limit is 55, and get on the freeway and drive 60 mph in the 70 mph zone. If your load will safely move along at 60 mph, it will safely move along at 35 in the 25 mph zone and if you can drive 45 on the collector, there is no reason to go 45 in the portions with a 45 mph limit.
Eh.... I'm wavering on this one. When pulling a load it takes more time to stop and is more difficult to control. I never pull my 34' 5th wheel camper or my 14' bumper pull RZR trailer over 65 mph and I rarely get to the speed limit on back roads. It's dangerous. In those instances I can see going below the posted speed limit. It requires more time to get up to speed and more time to stop.
When they are in the left lane and going the speed limit and pacing traffic next to them, yes I get angry at them, doesn't matter what type of road it's on.
I also take issue with the people who try to religiously go the speed limit exactly. That's fine, but at least be good at it and maintain your speed. When the road turns into an incline, they were going the speed limit before, say 45 mph, with the pedal pressed a certain amount. Now with the same amount of throttle, they're going 38. Then when the road levels out they take their time getting back up to the posted speed. When the road has a decline though, they'll ride their brakes so they don't go 1 mph over that limit.
Around where I live we have a lot of 1 lane roads, and TX has a law for failure to maintain speed. There's a couple good cops on the force here that enforce that law when these people are holding everyone up.
And Texas has a law (it's in the statutes) for exceeding the speed limit. I find people who want others to obey one traffic law so that they themselves can break another traffic law to be hypocritical and to have an overweening sense of entitlement.
And "But, Moooommm, everybody's doing it!" shouldn't have worked when you were a kid, and certainly shouldn't work when you're (presumably) an adult.
The poll is flawed - it is missing the "No, because I'm the one doing something wrong if they are holding me back so I just laugh at myself and chill" choice.
The same holds on the freeway, by the way. The speed limit exists in all lanes, even the passing lane, and someone who froths at the mouth because someone else is driving the top speed that ANYONE is supposed to be driving and thus keeps them from breaking the speed limit law is hypocritical and feels entitled beyond reality.
This is not about interstate highway driving. This is about town, city, or state highway driving. You're driving along and have to slow down because of a driver going the posted speed limit. Do you get angry with the driver slowing you down?
Honestly, it depends on whether or not I need to be somewhere by a certain time and they're making me late.
This is not about interstate highway driving. This is about town, city, or state highway driving. You're driving along and have to slow down because of a driver going the posted speed limit. Do you get angry with the driver slowing you down?
Can you add a fourth option to the poll:
No, match speed and follow safely behind vehicle
Eh.... I'm wavering on this one. When pulling a load it takes more time to stop and is more difficult to control. I never pull my 34' 5th wheel camper or my 14' bumper pull RZR trailer over 65 mph and I rarely get to the speed limit on back roads. It's dangerous. In those instances I can see going below the posted speed limit. It requires more time to get up to speed and more time to stop.
But if you can go 60 MPH and safely stop and control the vehicle at 60 (or 50) then you can do the same at 45 mph. There is not reason to go 35 in a 45 zone, just leave enough space for stopping. If it were a twisty road, then that makes sense. Obviously handicapped vehicles cannot always go the speed limit on a windy mountain road, but I am referring to typical straight flat collector streets or highways (not to be confused with freeways).
Er... since I opt to skip criminal activities, I wouldn't need to "slow down" for someone going the speed limit.
Speeding is an infraction, not a crime. This is a point at which it does become a crime, but most speeders don't reach that threshold.
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