Everyone should speed the majority of the time, amirite?

Sometimes traffic flows better if everyone drives slower. Especially at peak times. There is an optimal speed at which a traffic jam will not form in certain circumstances. Also air resistance increases with the squared of speed so higher speeds equal significant extra fuel consumption. I know a lot of folk don't care about that.

by Anonymous 2 years ago

also if everyone would leave 3 to 5 car lengths (good breaking distance) between each other we could nearly eliminate traffic. its always that ass hole who has to be up everybody's bumper that's causing the traffic.

by Anonymous 2 years ago

Also when all the lanes are not moving, and the one next to you moves before yours, you changing lanes just makes more traffic for the rest of us. But hey, you enjoy every bit of that one extra car length!

by Anonymous 2 years ago

You have a good point. When there is extreme congestion, I wouldn't think everyone should speed.

by Anonymous 2 years ago

Then realtime meters should be added telling you there are too many cars to speed anyway

by Anonymous 2 years ago

On open roads or highways, I get it... I go 5-10 mph over the speed limit... on roads I know and ones that I know are littered with cops. In-town driving... I will not speed... those limits are set for the safety of everyone in that area including pedestrians and children. I know when it's safe to speed and when I need to follow the traffic laws to a T.

by Anonymous 2 years ago

I am mostly referring to open roads, highways, and freeways. You got it!

by Anonymous 2 years ago

That is not nearly what you said. You literally said people should only drive the speed limit during unusual circumstances... completely incorrect and unsafe.

by Anonymous 2 years ago

I always go 100MPH and run over every family I see in order to demonstrate superiority

by Anonymous 2 years ago

Nvm wrong person

by Anonymous 2 years ago

Same

by Anonymous 2 years ago

Yet you will always be at the same red light as me 95% of the time

by Anonymous 2 years ago

Who's having more fun tho?

by Anonymous 2 years ago

I am with my low insurance rates

by Anonymous 2 years ago

I've done this enough to consistently make it past people at lights. 5mph makes a huge differences when approaching a yellow.

by Anonymous 2 years ago

Anywhere that has lights is somewhere you should drive the speed limit. Highways are a different matter.

by Anonymous 2 years ago

Be honest, it works like 10% of the time. Keep track of all the people you pass/cutoff and how far they are from you at the next red

by Anonymous 2 years ago

I do, and I usually never see them again, to be honest.

by Anonymous 2 years ago

Wow how do you have a license? You're a horrible driver who dangerously speeds

by Anonymous 2 years ago

Haha I am not at all actually. Passed my drivers test with a perfect score. Never been pulled over. Never been in an accident. Never had a close call.

by Anonymous 2 years ago

How long have you been driving? If you don't mind aging yourself. Also ever consider that slick lane change at the last second so you could smoke em through the yellow, and lets be honest, probably more then a few reds, caused someone to brake hard in front of one of these other assholes watching tiktok driving down the road, and caused an accident. Yea, you weren't in the accident, and the actual fault was the distracted guy, but you did initiate it, and may have done so dozens of times and you know, since you never see them again, have no idea it happened. Eventually a dash cam is gonna catch up with you.

by Anonymous 2 years ago

About 7 years. And you've raised an important point! I am not telling people to execute slick lane changes. I have only spoken of not going below or strictly at the speed limit, preferably 5mph above. I do not change lanes hazardously, I am careful in maneuvering my vehicle. I am a defensive driver and I am always scanning my surroundings. I do not drive recklessly and without concern for the people around me, and I would argue that those who refuse to approach or pass the speed limit are being the most inconsiderate of other drivers. I don't mind people driving slowly until I get stuck behind them and they make me miss a light that has a long cycle, which then causes me to barely miss the next light, and the next light, and so on. Frustrating when a person driving 40/45 in a 50 makes you miss the next ten lights.

by Anonymous 2 years ago

mmm, 7 years of probably 30-60 minutes of driving \~365 days a year is maybe 15k miles a year on average. I've been doing that by about 20x for as long as you have been driving, almost exactly! Before then I've spent years doing delivery driving, driving various sorts of work trucks to job sites, hell I probably got 50k miles on a motorcycle, and probably 20k of them in the dirt. I can tell you with a lot of wisdom, that you are not actually saving that much time. You will in the long run save much more time by leaving 5 minutes earlier, then rushing through these lights. It will catch you up eventually.

by Anonymous 2 years ago

It's not really the time aspect from start to finish of a trip. It's more like "damn I'm stuck at this light when I could have kept going, and now I have to idle for 3 minutes before wasting gas accelerating" etc. i am aware that when driving short distances, speeding does not make much of a difference. But my commute to work is nearly an hour one way, and to get stuck at lights the whole time because someone in front of me is driving under or exactly at the speed limit is infuriating. I also can't stand when people move slowly in congested places, such as amusement parks or grocery stores. I just hate being stuck behind slow people in general I suppose :)

by Anonymous 2 years ago

I'd find a better route. There is almost always back roads. If the lights affect your commute this drastically, a technically longer route might save you time.

by Anonymous 2 years ago

I live in a somewhat rural area and work in a very urban one (25 mile commute one way). Lights are unavoidable from any direction unfortunately, although as much as I can spend away from them I do! Good idea though :)

by Anonymous 2 years ago

my dad says this too… i hate to spoil it for you but it's closer to 5% than 95%

by Anonymous 2 years ago

Respectfully, I disagree OP. People are too distracted in today's society and have too much road rage to have a sense of urgency. There is a reason why insurance is so expensive -people today are incredibly reckless at any speed but especially high speed.

by Anonymous 2 years ago

I believe driving recklessly is a separate issue from speeding. If you are in a 40mph zone with winding roads and you speed to 65mph and crash, you were driving recklessly. You were speeding faster than your car could handle. If you are in a 55mph zone and you are driving 60-65mph, monitoring your surroundings, checking your blind spots, and driving aggressively, I think you would be driving safely.

by Anonymous 2 years ago

I found the person who yelled at me for going the speed limit past a police station

by Anonymous 2 years ago

Twas I!

by Anonymous 2 years ago

lol

by Anonymous 2 years ago

Who gets to decide if you're "speeding safely"? It'd be chaos.

by Anonymous 2 years ago

5mph is speeding safely.

by Anonymous 2 years ago

Prove it in a court of law

by Anonymous 2 years ago

>People should have more urgency when they drive, but should do so safely. Bit of an oxymoron there, eh?

by Anonymous 2 years ago

You can be safe and urgent. Many people who are driving too slow actually create less-than-safe driving conditions when they slow down the speed of traffic in their lane.

by Anonymous 2 years ago

Not according to the driving ed. Driving with a sense of urgency increases your risk of having an accident. And ironically, anything below 10mph is considered dangerous in proportional amounts to speeding lol Did you ever watch Mythbusters' experiment on speeding? The amount of time you're saving is negligible. Even aggressive speeders aren't able to shave 2 or 3 minutes off their commute. Your driving habits honestly just increase the risk of collisions for nothing more than to satisfy your lack of patience.

by Anonymous 2 years ago

I shave 5 minutes off my commute every day.

by Anonymous 2 years ago

Sure you do, buddy.

by Anonymous 2 years ago

I drive a large enough distance for the speeding to make a difference. It goes from a 45 minute drive to a 40 minute one. As long as I don't get stuck behind people going 5mph under the speed limit ;)

by Anonymous 2 years ago

Even if you did, for what purpose? At what risk? Just leave 5 minutes earlier

by Anonymous 2 years ago

Efficiency and despising sitting at lights that take 3 minutes to turn back to green.

by Anonymous 2 years ago

Sounds like the kind of driving that starts the road rage doesn't it?

by Anonymous 2 years ago

Yeah, people should get off the road and learn to drive if they don't know how to *at least* drive the speed limit.

by Anonymous 2 years ago

Car accidents are literally one of the leading causes of death in America (usa). Shocking isn't it.

by Anonymous 2 years ago

I doubt this is because of speeding by 5mph lol. Probably due to distracted drivers who look at their phones, run red lights, drive drunk or high, and don't check their blind spots when changing lanes.

by Anonymous 2 years ago

Yeah, this is a dukb and dangerous take tbh

by Anonymous 2 years ago

"People should drive in an unsafe way because I do."

by Anonymous 2 years ago

Yes officer, this guy right here. Just follow them around a bunch and you'll make bank!

by Anonymous 2 years ago

I have never seen a cop not speed. Not sure if there are regional differences, but every cop I drive near is speeding more than I am, by a good 10-25mph.

by Anonymous 2 years ago

Speed limits are not a suggestion and yeah 5 mph is also a big difference for the person you're hitting

by Anonymous 2 years ago

Hitting someone is usually from not giving yourself a large enough buffer, being distracted, not checking blind spots, etc., not from speeding by 5mph.

by Anonymous 2 years ago

I drive the speed limit always, it just helps that speeding morons get mad about it

by Anonymous 2 years ago

I drive on one of the least congested stretches of freeway in SoCal and invariably have to deal with the biggest idiots who feel they can't change over 3 lanes because "there's plenty of room". These are the people that make me speed. It happens daily and my reasons for going 10-15 miles over the speed limit is to avoid these people, get in that nice buffer between those people who are way ahead of me and those going slower.

by Anonymous 2 years ago

Employer monitors speed and I get paid by the hour so when I'm at work I'm doing speed limit

by Anonymous 2 years ago

How much value would that really offer?

by Anonymous 2 years ago

A lot. Less frustration. People who go 5-10mph under the speed limit make it even worse.

by Anonymous 2 years ago

Well this makes me nervous

by Anonymous 2 years ago

I'm not getting a $150-$300 ticket because you're impatient. Get mad.

by Anonymous 2 years ago

Boo never gotten pulled over for speeding, because cops pulling someone over for speeding by 5mph is likely rare. Cops in my area consistently speed 5-15mph depending on the area.

by Anonymous 2 years ago

So because you've never been pulled over for it, it never happens. Gotcha.

by Anonymous 2 years ago

Not what I said! :) I even used easy words like "likely" and "rarely" to denote uncertainty and outliers.

by Anonymous 2 years ago

Urgency and safety...somehow those two words just don't go with each other.

by Anonymous 2 years ago

But what's the point? If they raised the speedlimit by 5, would you be happy with it or insist on 5 over that?

by Anonymous 2 years ago

It depends. Freeway? Probably. Many people already speed by 20mph where I'm from. If the road is extremely curvy, no.

by Anonymous 2 years ago

Speeding does absolutely nothing. I drive the speed limit everywhere. And trust me i like to go fast, no speedlimit on highways and stuff. But theres no point in it. It burns more gas, its more dangerous to you and others (reaction time, breaking distance, impact force) and its not even much faster. Everyone who overtakes me just ends up next to me at the next red light, or at best saved 2 mins of their time. No point

by Anonymous 2 years ago

I completely agree with OP. Anyone who follows the exact speed limit makes me want to rip my head off out of frustration. Like, MOVE. Or at least drive in the right lane if you INSIST on going slow. Get out of the fast lane if you can't handle the pressure.

by Anonymous 2 years ago

Thank you! Don't get me started on when idiots stay side by side on a two lane road not allowing anyone to pass on either side. So annoying!

by Anonymous 2 years ago

Speed limit on open roads makes no sense. It just inconveniences people.

by Anonymous 2 years ago

5 over in town, 10 over on the highway, derigueur.

by Anonymous 2 years ago

Cue the assholes who think they're deputized to enforce the speed limit by cruising at the speed limit in the left lane.

by Anonymous 2 years ago

I drive the speed limit, under if no one is behind me, your risk of death increases exponentially the faster you go, your car runs optimal gas economy at 55, you should drive slower.

by Anonymous 2 years ago

ugh god just NO

by Anonymous 2 years ago

I agree with everything except the actual speed limit. I don't mind that, but please get into the right lane or middle lane. I think this is where aggressive driving is OK under the right weather conditions.

by Anonymous 2 years ago

I do

by Anonymous 2 years ago