Posted on 03/12/2007 11:54:51 AM PDT by Smogger
What's the statute of limitation on speeding? In America we have the right not to incriminate ourselves :-p
Then there are the ones who get on the expressway and sit in the passing lane alongside a truck going about the speed limit and take about 5 miles to pass the truck.
Heck yeah with the New Jersey drivers comment. I live at the south end of I-91, the route a lot of NY'ers and Jersey-ites take to go skiing. The new yorkers will aggressively hold the left lane, but the NJ drivers will come flying by on the far right shoulder at around 120-130 mph in heavy traffic.
Connecticut drivers typically run 60 mph in the left lane.
Mass drivers are easiest to deal with, you know they are always going to be agressive, so let them go, and laugh as they go by.
I live near Chicago, and, last Nov., when I went to Boston, for the first time, I heard that Massachusetts has terrible drivers. When I rented a car, I paid for insurance, although I usually don't do that. I noticed that the Mass. drivers are a lot better than Chicago-area drivers. In this area, I think that I've seen a higher percentage of people who speed, tailgate, change lanes without signaling, and turn into the wrong lane. The Illinois government has a budget deficit, and they could decrease that if the highway patrol did its job better by ticketing more people.
If they don't catch you in the act, you are good. Usually.
My statute of limitations to exceeding 150 mph ran out a looooooong time ago.
I love that joke! :)
I'm definitely an AutoBahner, but I don't drink and drive.
I go fast and I hate being stuck in traffic. Two of my three vehicles has over 300 hp to the rear wheels. Gas mileage is my lowest priority.
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LOL! That's not what most call us!
And then there's the opposite problem, which isn't an annoyance so much as a curiosity - the drivers who continually pass you, then fall behind you, then pass you again, etc. This past weekend on the freeway I was cruising in the right lane and in the span of ten miles one car passed me and fell back behind me a half-dozen times. And I had the cruise control set the whole time!
Nope, we're in Michigan. 80 is average freeway speed and quite safe.
If he was doing 75 during the day on a dry road then no, that's really too bad that happened to him.
My point was that teaching a (presumably) 16 year old kid that it's okay to do 80mph in a full-size van is idiotic. If someone wants to kill their kid then fine, that's a perfect example of Natural Selection in action. Just don't put the rest of us at risk.
I have a Ford F-150, I may bitch about gas prices -- but have no intention of scaling down my vehicle. I drive right around 10 MPH over the speed limit when on the highway (last speeding ticket was in 1979), but have little patience for morons and idiots. I guess my driving style would be considered aggressive by some as I believe in being at the speed of the highway when I reach the bottom of the ramp, will merge where I have room, will make sure I am pass the dipsticks so I am in front of the wreck they are about to cause, and am always looking and preparing 3-5 cars ahead of me instead of waiting for the moron in front of me to react way to late.
Well it was a two lane road, but it was a friends car and my first time in it.
He later got chased by the cops doing about 160 but he was far enough ahead that they never caught him. He mentioned something about a helicopter too.
150 on dirt would be a blast though. I think I've only done about 80 on dirt
Auto-bahner here - now get the heck out of my way! ;-)
Ah, that reminds me of another behavioral trait, most commonly seen with drivers of expensive "Euro" cars: You pass them because of their slow pace (usually yapping on a cell phone) and when past, they suddenly decide to drive 10-20 mph faster and sit on your bumper, if not to try and pass you back. An ego thing most likely.........
I'm a *ticking time bomb* and everybody should just stay out of my way for their own safety.
See # 31. And there is no need to maniacally press the "post" button. Duplicate posings are just as meaningful as the single ones.
As for New Jersey Drivers, all New Jersey Drivers become auto-morons once the sun goes down no matter how they drive during the day. I never seen a whole state where all the drivers just totally fall apart at night, considering there's you are never more than a ½ mile away from a mall or mini-mall and with all the streetlights it's never really that dark. I like daylight savings because normally it takes me 15 minutes to get home from work, but during the winter when it's dark it takes 30-45 minutes because nobody here has the ability to drive at night
Also, not one moron here can grasp the simple concept that when going up a hill, in order to maintain the same speed you have to step on the gas just a little harder. Drivers here will be doing 70-75 as they approch the bottom of a hill and by the time they get to the top the will be down to 45, even in the left lane. See Rte 3 in Clifton, 46 in Totawa, 80 in Patterson, 287 North from Edison, all of 280, the bridge over the Hackensack river near where it splits into Truck& Car lanes on the turnpike for examples
Not so! I have 5 kids and a Corvette! (And a very understanding and accommodating wife!)
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