A New Category of Sloth 3338You're saying that you want to do someone else's driving FOR THEM. Who the HELL are you to tell anybody else that they are turning too slow? I just about got creamed by someone...
Spoken like a man who has never seen a 45mph speed limit on an interstate that was not under construction or a 25mph speed limit sign on a major arterial where there were no cross streets because of construction but all lanes were open. (and a non-construction flow speed of 60mph)
I'll gladly drive you around the chicago area at the speed limit. You can count how many vehicles we pbutt. It will be a less than demanding job though, you might get to one.
I find it very difficult to drive the speed limit. It's very dangerous to merge, change lanes, and do just about any move other than stay planted where ever you happen to be if it is at all possible. It's also a condition where one ends up watching the rear view mirror more than where he is going, because the odds of running into something are comparitively small compared to something running into you.
translation: since 1980 means before 1985, when speeds were much lower, vehicles a lot crappier, the NMSL was still enforced heavily, and still nearly everyone violated the posted speed limit and there was considerably less traffic.
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