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I am from Brazil, that for some reason unknown to me went along USA speed limits. I started driving more or less recently and my town has several speedtraps, a
by speeder 7y ago
I am from Brazil, that for some reason unknown to me went along USA speed limits.
I started driving more or less recently and my town has several speedtraps, and they make me unsafer, becuase I am not used to driving a lot yet, I tend to respect speed limit all times, because I don't know where the speedtraps are, this has some consequences:
1. LOTS of honking when I am 5kph slower than the limit...
2. Because of the point 1, I tend to stick to the limit, this mean I am often looking at my speedometer instead of the road, and almost crashed because of this more than once.
3. Often I am overtaken in ridiculously crazy ways, like people overtaking in the opposite direction lane, or during corners, or more than once motorbikes overtaking me using the gutter, passing between my car and the sidewalk.
4. Also a couple times I almost crashed on the rear of experienced drivers that were speeding and I don't noticed, andwent along with the flow, only for them to suddenly slam on brakes right before the speedtraps (only to just as suddenly accelerate again right after them).
5. Often lanes end with strange speed discrepancies, sometimes in unsafe situations, for example there is a one-way road in my town that is in a steep hill that has a curve toward the right, often the left lane is full of people trying to overtake the entire right lane that is following speed limit, and the railings on the outer side of that curve are full of marks of people grinding on them.
I've seen once a group of 10 or so cars that were speeding slightly try to overtake a car that was following speed limit only for the first one of the group to crash on the rear of a bus that was on a bus stop when he tried to overtake from the right side (the other 9 or so cars squeezed themselves between the crash and the cars that stopped on the left lane while braking... lots of screeching).