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Either 15 MPH under the speed limit in the left lane or 20 MPH over the speed limit in the right lane. Nice huh? And you can imagine what the middle lane is like. Try and guess where I live.
On the local roads, I would say around/slightly above the speed limit is typical. Actually they don't drive too bad on the local roads.
Ha hell no. People drive pretty fast in San Diego, the slow lane usually moves at around the speed limit but the fast lane is pretty much at least 80mph+ most times. This morning on the way to work I was doing 88mph but so was everyone else in my lane traveling about one or two car lengths away from each other. If you drive under 80mph in the fast lane here you will intentionally get cut off. But the drivers here know how to drive and I like it cuz I got a lead foot too.
On surface streets its still above the speed limit but closer to it. But some of the main roads here have really high speed limits, some roads I see that are 50mph speed limit would be 35mph in other places.
I seriously never thought there was any place in the country where people drive at the speed limit.
I thought so too, but I've read posts on different boards on how transplants are "crazy" for driving over the speed limit, which makes it sound like speeding is an "imported" idea.
I can agree maybe with stuff like tailgating, or not signaling, but speeding is something I thought occurs everywhere.
I even thought tailgating or not signaling was an everywhere occurance. It's just people being people, no matter where they are from?
Here, I swear people TRY to NOT drive the speed limit. Most people take the Im-going-to-jail-if-I-get-caught-at-this-speed approach, yet there are some that could literally ride a bicycle faster than they drive their cars.
The worst incident I can remember? I was driving on I-88 westbound from Naperville and was passed ON THE SHOULDER of the road by about 10 sportbikes easily doing 120-150 mph WHILE DOING WHEELIES.
I seriously never thought there was any place in the country where people drive at the speed limit.
I heard in Portland and Seattle most of the people there drive the speed limit and below and are courteous to the point where it's annoying; "no after you, no no after you" type stuff.
I heard in Portland and Seattle most of the people there drive the speed limit and below and are courteous to the point where it's annoying; "no after you, no no after you" type stuff.
That sounds like a real pain. But I wonder if, all things being equal, slower average highway speeds are safer. Since the most dangerous thing to do on a highway is drive at a significantly different speed from everyone else (and you can assume some percentage of people are going to do that at any given time), would accidents be less fatal if the driving speeds were slower when they happened to occur? Seems to make sense, but it's just off the top of my head.
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