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In article , Jolly Roger
wrote:
> > If you drive 55mph where the flow of traffic is 70mph then *you* are a
> > hazard. Many of those idiots you see are trying to avoid an
> > un-anticipated impediment.
>
> Depends very much on the circumstance. What if the speed limit is 55?
then the road is underposted.
the safest speed is the prevailing traffic flow, not the number on the
sign.
> What if there are multiple flows of traffic - some obeying the speed
> limit, and others not?
there aren't multiple flows. there may be a few people who want to go
significantly faster and occasionally some who want to go slower. most
of the traffic will be around the 85th percentile speed.
> Very often, I'll be driving with cruise control
> set to 55-60 in the middle lane of a 3-lane highway where the posted
> speed limit is 55, where most of the cars around me are doing similar
> speeds (again, around 55-60), and a group of cars (usually anywhere from
> 2 to 6 cars) will come up from behind driving significantly faster than
> 55 (sometimes 15-25 miles faster (yes: 75-85 mph in a 55), speeding much
> faster than the traffic around me), usually with one or two idiots
> leading the pack in some sort of apparent race to see who can get
> wherever faster.
if you're going to be going 55-60 in a 55mph zone when there's faster
traffic, you should be in the rightmost lane. if not, you're the
problem, not the others.
it's also rare that people go 85 in a 55, particularly on an urban
highway which has too many curves for that to be realistic.
and how are you measuring speed anyway?
> Inevitably one or more drivers in the speeding group
> gets upset that the drivers in my group are "in their way", usually in
> various lanes (almost never just the left lane), and start tailgating
> and using aggressive and fast lane switching maneuvers in all three
> lanes, often making double-lane-switches without signalling within a few
> feet of other cars and pulling other dangerous stunts to get past these
> "slow" drivers that are imposing such an inconvenience on their little
> racing game as quickly as possible, safety be damned.
not the norm.
> In such a
> situation, I'd typically like to gradually decrease my speed, and make
> safe lane changes to the right to get as far away from the idiots as
> possible, if and when such opportunities safely become available.
wrong solution.
decreasing your speed when you're already below the prevailing speed
increases the chance of a crash, more so than speeding up.
> Unfortunately, very often, due to the tailgating aggressive behavior of
> the speeding group, there isn't a good opportunity to do that until
> *after* they've finished making their dangerous maneuvers and sped on
> past. I'm probably one of the last people who will just gleefully
> increase my speed to match the speed of the idiot group when I see them
> coming in my rear view mirror - especially if I'm not in the passing
> lane and I'm already at or exceeding the posted limit, and the cars
> around me are doing the same speed as me.
they're only tailgating because other drivers are going to slow for the
road.
> Nor am I going to quickly or
> dangerously make lane changes just to get out of their way to make their
> dangerous behavior easier for them to continue. Safety comes first, and
> I naturally value the safety of the well-behaved drivers around me more
> than speeding jackasses. BTW, this isn't a cherry-picked example
> situation - it happens *all* *the* *time* on American highways.
if safety comes first, then you'd be traveling at the prevailing
traffic flow.
the fact that you insist to go at the posted speed limit, forcing
others to go around you means *you* are part of the problem.
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