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Same

I mean, I could afford the ticket, but I'd rather spend that money on LEGO

Hell yes, fellow slow driver! It also saves fuel and car maintenance expenses.

I sold cars for a while. When you sell cars the company’s insurance typically requires the dealer to make sure everyone has a clean recent driving record. That means no speeding or bs of any kind.

But what about the "I'm late for work" mood 😥

I'm a bike commuter and it's this by a lot. I've had assholes swerve into the bike lane because they're salty I'm not traffic like they are, and punish passes are ridiculous. Dude, I'm doing 20 on my ebike, the speed limit is 20, you're an asshole.

It's ridiculous how acceptable people think it is.

I have someone I work with that seems to think the faster he goes the more important and busy he is, therefore he can treat everyone else on the road that follows the rules like they are just retired old geezers with nothing better to do.

It's infuriating. There is nothing I hate more than people with no patience or ability to plan ahead and leave at appropriate times.

I'm a school bus driver and I obey speed limits religiously (and somehow I'm almost alone in this among my coworkers despite the fact that our buses all have GPS monitors installed and our boss can see exactly how fast we're going at all times). Almost every day I have people behind me blasting their horns at me for this. Like, just imagine getting road rage at a fucking school bus driver.

My favorite thing is when they tailgate me, apparently oblivious to the fact that I can't see them at all when they do this, not even in my mirrors.

I have lived in places where the speed limit is very obviously around 10 mph too low for the road's engineering and surrounding environment, consistently. Consequently, there is truly no one during busy times doing the speed limit.

This gives police the ability to pull over anyone, at their discretion, with direct legal cause (not even the "immune from consequences in practice" kind). Even driving the speed limit creates a hazard and merits intervention according to the law.

The place I'm describing was very racist, driving while black was absolutely unofficially illegal, and this lets cops pick and choose in all the worst ways.

Be deeply suspicious of any law that is routinely broken by everyone for years with no change - it is to allow arbitrary, bigoted enforcement.

Yeah we are not a culture that can have cars safely.

cant think of another

Say 'genocide bad' in public. I dare you.

People react the same way when you don't make a right on red.

So many drivers don’t understand average speed. It’s ridiculous.

Mind you, in Australia the speed limit is usually followed pretty well.

That's because Australia has realistic speed limits. The US doesn't, and thats why people drive over it all the time.

I envy that you have a life where you can use cruise control when you are in your vehicle.

If I am in my vehicle it is usually to go to work, which means crowded highways and people who cut me off or can't maintain their speed worth a damn so if I use cruise control it's only for like 5 seconds before I either have to hit the brakes move into another lane.

Very obviously wearing their seatbelt

Bespoke: going the speed of traffic so the irresponsible citizens are also safe

Had an interesting chat with a chill taxi driver about this. He’d been in the business almost 30 years and says he sees people who don’t adopt this philosophy actually have health issues, and quit.

I'm not responsible for other people's anger issues. As long as people take this stance we will remain in the endless shitty cycle of people feeling like they have a good given right to drive 10+ over on any road, be it an interstate highway or a residential road where kids are playing.

I'm always afraid of getting rear ended if I get stuck behind someone. All it takes is two people late on the brakes to ruin my life. But of course I'll try to plan ahead and pass safely instead of losing my mind.

PSA: Don't open windows on busy roads. Let's in a bunch of pollutants like rubber and metal particles from tires

If it's a place you'd voluntarily have a picnic nearby, feel free to open windows