Icono Clast wrote:
> It is stupid, inconsiderate, selfish assholes like who who cause traffic
> tie-ups and accidents. Not moving with the traffic is the most dangerous
> act you can commit on a highway.
>
> I don't care a whit how much faster someone chooses to drive than I.
> That person isn't bothering me at all. I care a great deal about someone
> driving so much slower than the traffic as to be a hazard. If the
> traffic's moving at 85 and you at 70, that hazard is you!
So you feel it's OK to **force** me to choose between a risk of an
expensive ticket (and increased insurance rates, not to mention wasting
expensive gas), or wasting my time stuck behind slow-moving semis and
merging traffic? May I repeat: where do I send my bill when I get
stopped by police?
What I read between the lines here is either "My time is more important
than yours" or "I enjoy going fast and anyone who tries to slow me down
is an a*****e".
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At least around here, we have hills and onramps. There is a ceiling on
the speed at which people can merge, and at which semis are able to
climb the hills. It doesn't matter how these drivers feel about
speeding; their vehicles are mechanically incapable of reaching 85mph by
the end of the onramp/going up the hill. They *will* be going 70
regardless of their driver's beliefs on speeding.
Now, if the rest of traffic is going 70 then it doesn't really matter.
The vehicle merging onto I-24 that can't reach more than 70 by the end
of the onramp is in fact moving with traffic.
As the rest of traffic speeds up, a speed differential builds up. Which
is, as you say, dangerous. But again, the slow, merging vehicles can do
nothing about it. They *CAN'T* go any faster than 70. The fast cars,
on the other hand, can easily eliminate this speed differential.
Through the incredibly simple method of simply reducing pressure on the
gas pedal.
Unless we're prepared to build much longer onramps (or exclude trucks
and something like 90% of passenger cars from our freeways), speeding
causes increased speed differential. And you, the speeder, are the only
one who can do anything about it.
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Doug Smith W9WI
Pleasant View (Nashville), TN EM66
http://www.w9wi.com
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