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Certainly not just the USA. Also, unless you are travelling large distances or travelling at criminal speeds, you aren't really saving that much time by speedin
by runsonrum 5y ago
Certainly not just the USA. Also, unless you are travelling large distances or travelling at criminal speeds, you aren't really saving that much time by speeding.
- 8organicbits 5y agoA developer once asked me if I optimized my short/frequent inner loops or my long/infrequenly run code paths. But I agree. Watching someone weave past me to sit at the same red light or passing them when they pick the wrong lane in traffic always makes me laugh.
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- yummypaint 5y agoYeah if people really want road trips to be over quickly they should just drive below ticketable speed and keep moving. Going 10% faster on the highway for an hour is easily canceled out by a single stop. Within cities, driving even 20% faster routinely results in literally no improvement in transit time because you still catch the same red lights at the same times, but burn more fuel between them.
- AnimalMuppet 5y agoWhen I was a kid, there was this smaller town we went through somewhere in the midwest. It had signs that said "traffic lights are synchronized for 25 MPH". Once you figured out that they were telling the truth, you drove 25[1]. If you didn't, you hit every light red. [1] Or at least most people did. We still saw at least one vehicle jackrabbit out of a stop, get up to 35, and then hit the next red light. Over and over. Sigh...
- rjbwork 5y agoSo you drive 50, then ;)
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- Bostonian 5y agoI typically go 5-10 miles above the speed limit, have been driving for 30 years, drive more slowly than probably 60% of drivers, and have never gotten a speeding ticket.
- silisili 5y agoSame. But I usually do 15 to 20% over max instead of 5-10. 10 over in a neighborhood is way different than 10 over on the xway.