You probably know that most freeways are designed to be driven at a speed about ten miles over the posted speed limit at any given location. That is, if the driver is wide awake, competent and in constant full control of his or her well-maintained vehicle — as I’m sure you are.
Good luck, and please don’t hurt anyone else in your quest for....whatever it is you are looking for by driving too fast.
“Speeders” is just your reason for clogging the highway is my guess. If everyone drove less than the speed limit the problem of not keeping the left lane open as much as possible for passing would still be there.
Actually the interstate highways are generally built to be safely driven at over 100 MPH, and you don’t have to be super awake for it either. They’re mostly straight with gentle curves and lots of visibility to the sides. It’s the people that can’t manage the relatively simple rules that make driving dangerous, if US driver’s licenses didn’t come out of cracker jack boxes we could jack the speed limit up to 100 for most of the highways in the country and not have a problem. But since the level of training we require to get a license is slightly higher than “you have a pulse” we get fatalities with speed limits of 25.
You probably know that most freeways are designed to be driven at a speed about ten miles over the posted speed limit at any given location. That is, if the driver is wide awake, competent and in constant full control of his or her well-maintained vehicle — as I’m sure you are.
Speed limits optimize safety when set at the 85th percentile of what drivers would naturally drive (which explains how the autobahn has the lowest fatality rate on the planet).
If drivers aren’t awake or competent, slowing down doesn’t improve safety (it creates dangerous speed differentials). These folks should get tickets for impaired driving. Not used as vague justification that limits might be too high, or I’m driving too fast.
Right there is the crux of the problem. YOU'VE decided that someone is driving "too fast." Who are you to make that determination? And don't start braying about the speed limits. Everyone knows they're set at least 10 mph too low for revenue collection reasons.