Brent P
Except that anyone who isn't a speed-junkie can't possibly have such skills and is unaware of their surroundings by mere virtue of their moderate speed, right? How the hell you reached that conclusion is beyond me, but it sure feeds your ego. You buttume I must not even have those "normal" skills because I criticize speeders. Totally baseless.
I am equally or more aware than you, plus I have the advantage of less kinetic energy when things go wrong, thus I am safer. I have both those things going for me but you have only your self-decribed awareness and the hope that your excess speed won't get you in trouble. I haven't seen you personally drive, but few speed-demons I witness show much evidence of caring what's going on around or in front of them. They just zoom up on cars, tailgate, find a hole, weave, zoom up on the next victim and so on. Many serious crashes happen during the weave part of that sequence.
Anyone who isn't in a big damned hurry all the time must not know how to drive? Is that your humble opinion, punk?
Your vehicle code claim makes no sense and you have nothing to base it on. How does me driving 5 MPH over a limit (old post you must be referencing) make me less dangerous than those who consistently drive 15 or 20 MPH over? I'd tell you to learn some physics but that's proven useless here.
Saying that I'm technically as much a speeder as anyone because I creep over the limit is asinine. It's like saying that someone who smokes one cigarette a day is just as likely to get cancer as a chain smoker. FYI, I've never smoked, but it seems common among speeders. Drug and alcohol use certainly is.
Above, you claimed you follow the vehicle code to the letter, so you must be lying again. You wouldn't need to pbutt so many cars if you weren't a speed-freak. I have no such needs and I always get where I'm going. That's why I'm safer than you, so don't call ME a menace.
Tailgaters and weavers like yourself (part and parcel of speeding) put others at risk every day. I cause NO such danger, and I'm not the "slow" driver you keep painting a picture of.
If you don't, plenty of your kind do. The slick types who drive Corvettes and such. They want everyone to admire them because they've got so much power. Human nature at its finest.
I'm talking about the speeders who exceed the "exceeders." There is mindless mob speeding, which I always try to avoid, then there's "breakaway" speeding, which many of you indicate you do regularly. And just because most people in Chicago are part of the speeding mob doesn't make it safe by default. It just means a lot of them must do it or risk being rear-ended.
Driving to Las Vegas from L.A. is a clbuttic example of that mentality. Everyone's trying to do 80 or 90 (up a very long grade on I-15) and there's no real reason for it except mob behavior. I've seen a lot of cars overheat on that grade and the hyper speeds make it worse.
What makes you buttume that? Both my Toyotas (truck and car) are in great shape and always have been. You are exactly the sort of smug dope I'm sick of dealing with on the road. Making buttumptions that everyone else lacks your supreme coolness and needs to get out of your precious way. I read you perfectly well.
Tailgating someone at 80 or 90 MPH just because they won't exceed the limit to your extremes goes well beyond minding your own business. It DOES have an effect on me, especially when I have few lanes to choose from. Speed-freaks have hijacked the left lane(s) and made driving an annoying experience for anyone who dares drive moderately.
I stay out of the left lane whenever possible, but there are many times when I just can't (two lanes each direction) and speeders irritate me to no end. See the old threads about being tailgated while pbutting a long line of trucks on such a highway.
Notice where I said "imagined reasons." Conspiracy theories where it's never about safety and always about revenue is what "imagined" means. Speeders think they can write the book on safety, but their unlucky
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