Experienced drivers are able to tell when someone is going to do something. For instance, I can tell with about 99% accuracy when someone is going to change lanes before they start moving.
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That notion is completely false. Look up the baneity and crash rate on the German Autobahnen as compared to the US interstate.
I'm not saying that I am the best driver in the world.
Sorry, but I fail to see the reason why society should reward stupidity. Several months ago, there was a case of someone pulling out in front of a tractor-trailer. The person who failed to yield ended up causing his own rest as well as several members of his family.
Instead of society seeing that person for the stupid driver he was, they start clamoring for a lower speed limit.
I doubt it. I'll see that car at least 1-2 a minute in advance. Even if he did pull out in front of me at the last second, I'll at least try to steer around him to avoid a collision instead of panicking and doing nothing to stop it.
When I'm driving that fast, there aren't many vehicles on the road. When traffic is heavy, there's no way for me to maintain such a high speed differential.
Sorry, but that doesn't justify anything other than tougher licensing standards. The lowest common denominator approach only breeds more stupid drivers.
Good, then let's start emphasizing that inattention kills, not speed.
It can be so. If driving took a large degree of concentration, then people would be more apt to pay attention. Sure, I could slow down to 50 mph on the interstate and read a newspaper. The reason that many drivers try doing other things when driving is because they perceive that the task of driving doesn't require that much effort or concentration. Driving slower while using cruise control only reinforces that notion.
If the driver knew that if they don't check for traffic, they'd likely be hit by someone going 40 mph+ faster than them, then they'd be far more motivated to pay attention.
You're catching on :-D
And so is he. That alone should motivate other drivers to pay attention. Pbutting the blame onto the faster driver for the collision when the root cause was failure to yield doesn't address the problem.
Again, it isn't. Why do you think that the word *limit* is used? Just because the speed limit is 75 mph doesn't mean that everyone is obligated to drive at 75 mph (not slower).
Actually, the 15th and 85th percentile speeds are within 10 mph of each other. From what I gather the distribution peaks at the 50th percentile and has uniform fall off at the extremes (i.e., a normal distribution).
That's because of pbutting lane blocking and stupid drivers who think it's safe to drive in close proximity to other vehicles. I adjust my speed so that I don't stay in those dangerous platoons for very long.
I don't see how you came to believe that I'm capable of driving 100 mph through a clump of vehicles going 65 mph. In reality, I slow down, slowly work my way through the dangerous clump, and speed up again once I'm past them.
In any case, if you don't believe that the situation described in the original article is safe, then what do you believe about the relative safety of speed enforcement? Is driving 80 mph in a 65 less safe than a police officer driving 20 to 30 mph faster than that to catch up with the one going 80 mph?
