Punch wrote:
> oh I understand what speed your talking about, but everyone refers to the
> highway lanes as the slow lane the middle lanes and the fast lane, yet there
> is only one speed limit for the highway! if everyone was obeying the law,
> and not racing nobody would need to pass, and the only cars in the slow
> lanes would be trucks ascending hills!
How do you figure? The speed limit is just that - the *limit*. Which
implies that you are allowed to go slower. In New York, it's perfect
legal to go 55 in a zone posted for 65 - as long as you're less than 15
MPH under the limit you don't even have to put on your hazard flashers.
In fact, it's even *technically* illegal to pass someone who's doing
65 in a 65 zone, because you're then doing more than 65. Slower traffic
must stay to the right.
Which means that yes, 99.99999% of all drivers have broken the speed
laws and yes we're all "criminals". Fortunately most officers don't go
by the letter but rather the spirit of the speed limits.
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