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Re: You're a shitty driver... yes, you with the eyeballs!

Postby DoglovingJim » Mon Jan 30, 2017 5:05 am

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ghijkmnop wrote:Driving the speed limit in the high-speed lane while people queue up behind you and pass you on the right is dangerous, and in many states will get you cited.


Penalizing someone for obeying the law while everyone around them is breaking it is some stone-cold bullshit!

Something seems really wrong about that, the speed limit is the law. I'm with DamianaRaven on this.
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Re: You're a shitty driver... yes, you with the eyeballs!

Postby cmsellers » Mon Jan 30, 2017 5:09 am

DoglovingJim wrote:Something seems really wrong about that, the speed limit is the law. I'm with DamianaRaven on this.

You know what else what the law, Jim? Apartheid.
Should Nelson Mandela have obeyed that law?
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Re: You're a shitty driver... yes, you with the eyeballs!

Postby DoglovingJim » Mon Jan 30, 2017 5:50 am

cmsellers wrote:
DoglovingJim wrote:Something seems really wrong about that, the speed limit is the law. I'm with DamianaRaven on this.

You know what else what the law, Jim? Apartheid.
Should Nelson Mandela have obeyed that law?


Well, yes. Because it was the law, but then that law changed.
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Re: You're a shitty driver... yes, you with the eyeballs!

Postby Australia » Mon Jan 30, 2017 8:48 am

That's a real racist catch-22 there, Jim.
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Re: You're a shitty driver... yes, you with the eyeballs!

Postby DoglovingJim » Mon Jan 30, 2017 8:54 am

It was kind of a joke, I don't see how apartheid enforced by a "white minority regime" can even possibly be compared with following set speed limits. Now I don't like speed limits as much as the next man but it's the law and I'm not going to break it, all I can do is pray that they would one day change it and increase them.
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Re: You're a shitty driver... yes, you with the eyeballs!

Postby CarrieVS » Mon Jan 30, 2017 3:34 pm

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ghijkmnop wrote:Driving the speed limit in the high-speed lane while people queue up behind you and pass you on the right is dangerous, and in many states will get you cited.


Penalizing someone for obeying the law while everyone around them is breaking it is some stone-cold bullshit!


You're not obeying the law if you're in the high-speed lane driving slower than the speed of traffic in the outer lanes.
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Re: You're a shitty driver... yes, you with the eyeballs!

Postby cmsellers » Mon Jan 30, 2017 5:24 pm

DoglovingJim wrote:I don't see how apartheid enforced by a "white minority regime" can even possibly be compared with following set speed limits.

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Re: You're a shitty driver... yes, you with the eyeballs!

Postby ghijkmnop » Tue Jan 31, 2017 12:01 am

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Re: You're a shitty driver... yes, you with the eyeballs!

Postby DoglovingJim » Tue Jan 31, 2017 4:57 am

ghijkmnop wrote:
DoglovingJim wrote:
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ghijkmnop wrote:Driving the speed limit in the high-speed lane while people queue up behind you and pass you on the right is dangerous, and in many states will get you cited.


Penalizing someone for obeying the law while everyone around them is breaking it is some stone-cold bullshit!

Something seems really wrong about that, the speed limit is the law. I'm with DamianaRaven on this.


The NSC defensive driving class I taught's response to this is: "Traffic is like a river; FLOW WITH IT!" Driving exactly the speed limit in the passing lane can get you cited for Obstructing Traffic/Dangerous driving.

If the speed limit is the law, then there would be no need for more than one lane in each direction on most stretches of the Interstate. The existence of a passing/high speed lane (and the fact that these lanes are called exactly that), and the well-publicized "secret" that police allow for 5-9 over the speed limit (for multiple reasons, including, to be honest, laziness), pretty much confirms that, in this case, the law is the law ONLY if you are obviously breaking it.

But--- even if you disagree with all that, the OTHER sign on the highway regarding driving says "KEEP RIGHT EXCEPT TO PASS," so by technically obeying the first law by going the speed limit, you are breaking the second one, which based on my conversations with LEOs, is far more important to traffic safety under normal circumstances.

http://www.vox.com/2014/6/16/5804590/wh ... -left-lane


Interesting, is this just an American thing or do you think it applies with Australia as well?
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Re: You're a shitty driver... yes, you with the eyeballs!

Postby Paradox » Tue Jan 31, 2017 2:24 pm

I know it most definitely don't apply to Brazil.
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Re: You're a shitty driver... yes, you with the eyeballs!

Postby Learned Nand » Tue Jan 31, 2017 7:17 pm

I think it varies from state to state as well. California law, for example, states:
California Motor Vehicle Code § 22400(a) wrote:No person shall drive upon a highway at such a slow speed as to impede or block the normal and reasonable movement of traffic unless the reduced speed is necessary for safe operation, because of a grade, or in compliance with law.

(emphasis added).

In other words, "speed of traffic" isn't an excuse for exceeding the speed limit.
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Re: You're a shitty driver... yes, you with the eyeballs!

Postby Piter Lauchy » Tue Feb 14, 2017 9:29 pm

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Piter Lauchy wrote:I'm a fantastic driver. That's all.

So what's the fastest you've driven on the autobahns?

160-170 km/h (~99-106 mph), I think.

You either have a really slow car or you've never once tried to see what it can do.

I don't have a car, but it's mostly the latter. To me, the point of no speed limit isn't to drive as fast as physically possible, but to be able to drive at a non-boring speed all the time. Wikipedia says that 85 mph is the highest speed limit in the US, but that's only in a tiny part of Texas. 70-75 mph is way more common and it would annoy the crap out of me to never be allowed to go faster than that.
The official recommended speed here is 130 km/h (~81 mph). I usually drive at 140-150 km/h (~87-93 mph) and only go faster when there's an annoying driver at roughly my speed and I want to get away from them.

Once I get a motorcycle license that might change, though.
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Re: You're a shitty driver... yes, you with the eyeballs!

Postby 8====D » Thu Feb 23, 2017 10:31 pm

Here is a really, really simple one.

Turn your fucking lights on.

Is it raining outside? Turn your lights on.

Is it just grey and over cast? Turn your damn lights on.

Has the sun set like 30 minutes ago and there's just a tiny sliver of light peeking over the horizon?
TURN YOUR FUCKING LIGHTS ON!!!!!!

The sky is grey your car is grey the asphalt is grey and you are creeping around in my blind spot with your headlights off.

Turn your damn lights on.
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Re: You're a shitty driver... yes, you with the eyeballs!

Postby Piter Lauchy » Thu Feb 23, 2017 11:15 pm

That's a rather aggressive introduction, but hello to you, too, Richard!
Also, don't forget the blinkers.
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Re: You're a shitty driver... yes, you with the eyeballs!

Postby Twistappel » Fri Feb 24, 2017 12:05 am

Piter Lauchy wrote:That's a rather aggressive introduction, but hello to you, too, Richard!
Also, don't forget the blinkers.

Yeah, normally we just start with some introductions and gentle probing, JamishT asks you a few seemingly innocuous questions, we extract one of your molars to keep on file and then we get into the vitriolic ranting.

But hi. Nice to see you're such a big fan of the number "8".
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