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120mph maximum and a 40mph minimum are too disparate. And there are other deleterious effects of 120mph. > 100 and most consumer tires are at their brink. Simi

120mph maximum and a 40mph minimum are too disparate. And there are other deleterious effects of 120mph. > 100 and most consumer tires are at their brink. Similarly, there is a lack of the average vehicle to accelerate quickly beyond 80.

wolrah 7y ago
> 120mph maximum and a 40mph minimum are too disparate. Agreed. The minimum speed for interstate-class highways should be 60 MPH. If you can't do 60, take the country roads. > And there are other deleterious effects of 120mph. > 100 and most consumer tires are at their brink. Similarly, there is a lack of the average vehicle to accelerate quickly beyond 80. This is why highways have multiple lanes. Slower traffic to the outside, faster traffic to the inside. If your vehicle isn't capable of keeping up with the fastest traffic, stay to the outside. Unfortunately Americans in particular are horrible at lane discipline, something I believe is aggravated by speed limits being too low so there's a subset of idiots who take it upon themselves to be speed enforcement and drive slowly in the passing lane.
- zten 7y ago
  I don't think it's speed enforcement in most cases. It's usually people not wanting to deal with changing lanes to deal with the slowest traffic. For a while I would come up across a large number of vehicles inexplicably stacked in the left lane, with a huge gap on the right lane. Younger me would zoom up the gap and inevitably find a semi truck and someone passing it very slowly, and the left lane would close ranks because they thought I was a dick. Older me just stays in the left lane. edit: I'll move to the right when it's so obviously clear that I won't have to move back to the left. But it's really tedious to be weaving across the road with regularity to maintain a strict adherence to the keep right law.
dsfyu404ed 7y ago
Oh come on. My 90s shitboxes are all perfectly driveable around 100. Sure they won't get there as fast as a modern car but the only time you find yourself trying to gain 50+mph really quickly is when you happen to be caught on an on-ramp behind someone who has no business driving. I agree that an 80mph delta is a little much though.
- pnutjam 7y ago
  I was just using a couple examples. There's room for other speed limits. I think speed limits should be just that, the max speed you can safely drive at. If someone breaks the speed limit they should have their car impounded. The current system teaches us that the speed limit is actually a suggested speed, and no big deal to break by 5 or 10 mph. It's a stupid system designed for revenue, not safety.

wolrah 7y ago

> 120mph maximum and a 40mph minimum are too disparate. Agreed. The minimum speed for interstate-class highways should be 60 MPH. If you can't do 60, take the country roads. > And there are other deleterious effects of 120mph. > 100 and most consumer tires are at their brink. Similarly, there is a lack of the average vehicle to accelerate quickly beyond 80. This is why highways have multiple lanes. Slower traffic to the outside, faster traffic to the inside. If your vehicle isn't capable of keeping up with the fastest traffic, stay to the outside. Unfortunately Americans in particular are horrible at lane discipline, something I believe is aggravated by speed limits being too low so there's a subset of idiots who take it upon themselves to be speed enforcement and drive slowly in the passing lane.

zten 7y ago
I don't think it's speed enforcement in most cases. It's usually people not wanting to deal with changing lanes to deal with the slowest traffic. For a while I would come up across a large number of vehicles inexplicably stacked in the left lane, with a huge gap on the right lane. Younger me would zoom up the gap and inevitably find a semi truck and someone passing it very slowly, and the left lane would close ranks because they thought I was a dick. Older me just stays in the left lane. edit: I'll move to the right when it's so obviously clear that I won't have to move back to the left. But it's really tedious to be weaving across the road with regularity to maintain a strict adherence to the keep right law.

dsfyu404ed 7y ago

Oh come on. My 90s shitboxes are all perfectly driveable around 100. Sure they won't get there as fast as a modern car but the only time you find yourself trying to gain 50+mph really quickly is when you happen to be caught on an on-ramp behind someone who has no business driving. I agree that an 80mph delta is a little much though.

pnutjam 7y ago
I was just using a couple examples. There's room for other speed limits. I think speed limits should be just that, the max speed you can safely drive at. If someone breaks the speed limit they should have their car impounded. The current system teaches us that the speed limit is actually a suggested speed, and no big deal to break by 5 or 10 mph. It's a stupid system designed for revenue, not safety.