A New Category of Sloth 3332

gpsman

Well... since speed limits are supposedly enacted for the safety of and with the consent of the general public, if EVERYONE is speeding, the problem isn't with everyone, it's with the speed limit.

Kind of what I thought. I would say that "excessive speeding" would be better described as "too fast for conditions." If you define it that way I might actually agree with you. But the fact is that where it is defined as xx MPH over an arbitrarily defined speed limit it's still arbitrary. Case in point, Virginia, where 20 over is automatic reckless and at the same time may be very close to the speed of the general flow of traffic on I-95 - and a perfectly safe speed for the road.

Sure, but my point was that there are laws on the books that actually *do* make sense, such as keep right except to pbutt, which when followed, are beneficial to ALL concerned with no downside to anyone. And there would be more than enough resources to pick out the buttholes that don't signal, can't merge, don't keep right, make unsafe lane changes, etc. if we shifted our enforcement priorities away from running radar in the median and actually got some cops out in traffic. Of course, we'd have to actually instill some sense of purpose in them as well, because frankly, IME the cops are the worst violators of all traffic laws on the road.

Yes, as long as they KRETP. But practically nobody does. The right hand lane has become basically one big long ramp where I drive - as soon as someone is squarely on the highway they're looking to change lanes to the left, whether or not anyone's in front of them. I don't know where this irrational fear of the right lane comes from, but I've actually been cut off - and not just once or twice either - while simply driving in the middle lane by someone who is moving left and still isn't up to speed yet. If you want to avoid this mess, you have to move to the very leftmost lane, which explains why LLBing is so prevalent. Simply pee poor driving, not related to speed in any way.

Another item - people think that because they are driving the speed limit or above, that gives them the right to move left at any time without checking their mirrors. I don't know how many times I've heard this - "I don't know why this guy was following so close-blinking his left turn signal-flashing his lights at me, I mean, I was going 5 over!" This is the kind of inconsiderate and unsafe driving that our obsession with speed and speed limits fosters; people wh focus on their speed as the determining factor as to whether they are "safe" or not, and ignoring everything else.

The problem is unrelated to speed entirely. It's a culture of a few buttholes that drive like buttholes and get away with it, because the cops are too busy running radar and the rest of the motorists are too scared to even honk their horns. Speed has absolutely nothing to do with the problems that I see on our roads.

I don't see how that is "obvious" as my observations are completely different.

nate

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