Especially when that old lady with the big floppy hat, and the never-ending turn signal is driving slow in the fast lane.
When you lower them too much, you increase the disparity between those who obey the speed limits and those who don’t give a sh!t. The former end up getting run over by the latter.
If you drive twice as fast you will spend half as much time on the road. Less time spent running the risk of having an accident.
HELLOOOOO! Of COURSE they do. Not to mention the ROAD RAGE THEY CAUSE. I call them Hubbites. They have their heads up their butts when they’re driving.
I also think they all wear Depends. Hell, they’re wearing their Depends, they don’t care if they EVER get where they’re going
The only why you can rear end someone, is if they are going slower than you.
Not just DUI
Most accidents occur because people are driving HUA
(Head Up Arse)
This standard doesn’t universally apply. There was an infamous S-Curve on Lake Shore Drive near downtown Chicago that had a 15 MPH speed limit ... and it MEANT IT. That really was the engineered speed. Every weekend some car with out of state plates would find itself stuck halfway over a Jersey barrier.
Only drive as fast as I can see - Ol’ Jack Burton ...
“Did you ever notice that anyone who drives slower than you is an ‘idiot’, and anyone who drives faster than you is a ‘maniac’?”
-George Carlin
The biggest problem in terms of crashes is WIDE deviations between fasted drivers and slowest drivers... Far safer to be on a road where EVERYONE is going 65, than a rode where folks are going anywhere from 40-65 MPH all at the same time.
Who drives the speed limit? Most people go 9 miles per hour over the limit.
Differential speed causes most crashes below design speed. When speed limits are significantly below design speed some will drive design speed and some at limit speed, leading to higher differential speed and crashes.
Most of the Texas roads (highways) around Dallas got bumped up to 70 a couple years ago. Idiots still go 55 on them half the time :/
In the olden days they would open a stretch of road and not post any speed limit, then monitor the speed of traffic. Figuring that the all but the fastest 15% are driving at a sensible speed, they’d post the limit at the 85th percentile.
Then along came a thing called the speed gun and the world opted for revenue collection over public safety.