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I wasn't around to experience it, but I'm sure I would've struggled with it. Why?
For one, I feel very comfortable going 70-75 on rural interstates and 55-70 on urban ones. Having that taken from me would slow trips AND make me have to constantly monitor my speed (the cruise control on my truck is messed up), as I do in the rare case of a four-lane divided highway being 55 instead of 60 or 65.
Secondly, even I have to monitor my speed constantly to avoid going over 60 on even some larger two-lane roads (and I'm a VERY big stickler for the rules). Many states still haven't allowed 60+ mph speed limits on their two-lane roads (Minnesota is new to it), and they should only on straight, flat roads with large shoulders anyways. However, most such roads in Tennessee seem like they could safely support 60-70mph speeds, and the ones I use most often have groups of cars spread out (from where cars pile up behind a speed-obedient driver) whilst seldom encountering those successfully driving ~65mph in between.
No matter what speed limit they set, most people are always going to go a little above it. They could make it 120 and people would be going 140.
Just human nature.
It’s not human nature. It’s poor enforcement. Go drive in Germany. People drive exactly the speed limit. It’s tightly enforced and has big fines & license suspensions.
I set my adaptive cruise control at speed limit + 9 on the highway. I know I’m not going to get a ticket. In notorious speed trap locations in Vermont, I go exactly the speed limit.
Didn't thousands of truckers park their rigs and complain on the Cbs? Or was that something else?
You remember that right. And remember the song "Convoy"?
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Originally Posted by GeoffD
It’s not human nature. It’s poor enforcement. Go drive in Germany. People drive exactly the speed limit. It’s tightly enforced and has big fines & license suspensions.
Even in Vermont on rural local roads when the speed limit drops from 50 to 40 to 30 approaching villages people slow down and speed up right at the signs. When the limits are reasonable and enforced guess what; people obey them. 55 on an open, multi-lane road is a joke.
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