Same here in most parts of Florida. They usually want you to drive with the
flow of traffic. If that means speeding that's OK as long as it's not a
ridiculas speed, you aren't weaving in and out of traffic, and tailgating.
The ones who cause the wrecks are almost always the ones doing these things.
Jeff Durling
----- Original Message -----
From: "Bill Pitz" <dakota@billpitz.com>
To: <dakota-truck@dakota-truck.net>
Sent: Sunday, January 05, 2003 1:38 PM
Subject: Re: DML: Re: RE: Re: RE: Street racing & Common sense or lack there
of.
>
> At 12:10 PM 1/5/2003 -0500, you wrote:
>
> >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.
>
> You also need to be going noticeably faster than the speed limit due to
the
> potential for inaccuracy in speed measurement (your speedo vs. the cop's
> speedo/radar, etc.) The California Highway Patrol will generally not stop
> you on the freeway unless you are going way faster than the traffic around
> you or constantly weaving in and out of lanes. They rarely use radar on
> the freeway (except in more rural areas and on smaller highways), so they
> are basically stopping people who do things to make themselves stand out.
>
> FWIW, I've been going 80+ on certain stretches of freeway and still been
> passed by dozens of other cars going at least 10-15mph faster than me.
>
> -Bill
>
>
This archive was generated by hypermail 2b29 : Fri Feb 06 2004 - 11:45:41 EST