EVERYTHING'S BIGGER IN TEXAS - 85 mph (140 km/h) Limits up for consideration to be posted on Highway
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[QUOTE=Broseph_;36295522]It's because police in Louisiana are corrupt as shit[/QUOTE]
Corrupt because he gave someone a speeding ticket for speeding?
I generally ao about 10% faster then the limit only because any slower and I'm a hazard to traffic. The only time I gut pulled over was when I was going 87 on a 70, and that's because I was speeding up to avoid getting rear ended by some jackass going 90. Sadly, the cop pulled over the first one in the group.
And as far as Louisiana roads go, it just depends on the area. There are stretches of road that you have to watch your ass for, and others are like a no holds bar. In general, the state cops are going 90, so if you try to outrun them (without noticing it's a cop car), you'll get a ticket. Otherwise, they don't bother. The reason why they go so fast is because if they go any slower, the whole interstate starts to jam up with people obeying the speed limit and then the angry speeders stuck 8 or 10 car lengths behind them.
I tried going 81mph once on the highway coming back from work on a beautiful friday morning, happy to finally come back home after 5 days, but the cops told me to slow down, gave me a 128$ ticket and told me that if I got another ticket I would lose my paper.
Speed limits are really just guidelines here. All the driving instructors I knew of repeatedly said to go with the flow of traffic; doing anything else increases your risk of an accident. Hell it was on my written drivers test, which was followed by a question that said you should always go the speed limit on the freeway and not "as fast as other people". Stupid people can't even make up their mind on their own damn tests.
In anycase I go whatever speed I am comfortable with, which is typically never above the speed limit unless the occasion requires it.
[QUOTE=Edthefirst;36295054]Try 20 over. While driving into Atlanta the speed limit shifts from 65 to 55, and everyone is always going between 70 and 80. Cops don't do anything about it unless you're the only person on the road or if you are going significantly faster than the rest of traffic.
Georgia also doesn't book you for going 5 over. It's legal to drive 5mph over the posted limit unless it's a special zone (schools, construction, etc.).[/QUOTE]
Correction, Atlanta police doesn't. in the metro area the cops are fucking assholes and will pull you over for ANYTHING.
Joy, now we can have even more fatal wrecks. IH-35 between San Antonio and Austin is one of the most dangerous stretches of freeway in the entire country, and I drive it every day. It's scary to read most people in here have a flagrant disregard for posted speed limits. They aren't guidelines, they're set that way for a reason.
It's pretty amazing to me people are willing to disregard the lives of people around them, and their own just to make a trip 5-10 minutes shorter. My dad was nearly killed by some idiot that thought it was alright to do 80 mph on the freeway. he subsequently lost control of his car, slammed into the concrete divider and bounced. His trajectory slammed him right into the rear drivers side door on my dads van, snapped the axel clean off and spun him 180 degrees around to face oncoming vehicles going 70+ mph.
I've also had brushes with death by fucking idiots that shouldn't be allowed to drive (most people in this thread) because they were going too fast. Things ranging from almost being rammed to being run off the road by cunts that can't be bothered to change lanes.
There's multiple injury accidents on IH-35 (and elsewhere) every day of the week due to excessive speed. And back in the early 2000s, there was a span of a few years where there was a fatal wreck nearly every day (the kind with dismembered burning corpses in crushed cars) all because people want to get somewhere 5-10 minutes quicker.
If you want to endanger us by speeding, do us a favor and crash into a bridge piling and take yourself out before you kill someone else.
WELL HERE IN NEW JERSEY 65 is like the highest speed limit here, people usually do like 70-80 regardless.
140km/h on a highway doesn't seem anything special really. We've "only" got 130 but it works fairly well. And germans next door don't have a limit at all.
As long as the road is good enough there shouldn't be an issue.
[QUOTE=bohb;36311583]Joy, now we can have even more fatal wrecks. IH-35 between San Antonio and Austin is one of the most dangerous stretches of freeway in the entire country, and I drive it every day. It's scary to read most people in here have a flagrant disregard for posted speed limits. They aren't guidelines, they're set that way for a reason.
It's pretty amazing to me people are willing to disregard the lives of people around them, and their own just to make a trip 5-10 minutes shorter. My dad was nearly killed by some idiot that thought it was alright to do 80 mph on the freeway. he subsequently lost control of his car, slammed into the concrete divider and bounced. His trajectory slammed him right into the rear drivers side door on my dads van, snapped the axel clean off and spun him 180 degrees around to face oncoming vehicles going 70+ mph.
I've also had brushes with death by fucking idiots that shouldn't be allowed to drive (most people in this thread) because they were going too fast. Things ranging from almost being rammed to being run off the road by cunts that can't be bothered to change lanes.
There's multiple injury accidents on IH-35 (and elsewhere) every day of the week due to excessive speed. And back in the early 2000s, there was a span of a few years where there was a fatal wreck nearly every day (the kind with dismembered burning corpses in crushed cars) all because people want to get somewhere 5-10 minutes quicker.
If you want to endanger us by speeding, do us a favor and crash into a bridge piling and take yourself out before you kill someone else.[/QUOTE]
If there's so many accidents in the area, then speeding is definitely not the only problem. The road is probably a much bigger contribution to those accidents than anything else. Were people not stupid for keeping the speed limit or even below the speed limit in those areas? yes. But the road is probably hellishly messed up to cause so much.
It seems our 75 mph highways are more in the 90 mph area in some cases. One time that was literally the slow lane.
[QUOTE=wraithcat;36319270]If there's so many accidents in the area, then speeding is definitely not the only problem. The road is probably a much bigger contribution to those accidents than anything else. Were people not stupid for keeping the speed limit or even below the speed limit in those areas? yes. But the road is probably hellishly messed up to cause so much.[/QUOTE]
A disproportionate amount of fatal accidents on IH-35 are due to speeding. IH-35 between SA and Austin is 3-4 lanes each way depending on where you are. The 70 mile+ stretch of road between the two cities is mostly straight and is maintained very well, there are no road hazards to speak of, other than insane drivers who flagrantly disregard posted speed limits.
There was a fatal wreck not more than 2 months ago where an 18 wheeler was screaming along at 85 mph in fog (in the slow lane), and subsequently smashed into an F150, which plowed into 5 cars in front of it. The F150 looked like it had been through a car compactor and the driver died instantly. All of the people in front of him had serious injuries and were rushed to the nearest hospital.
The second highest after speeding would be drunk driving accidents, but drunk accidents are usually far tamer due to the nature of the road. At least with these, you don't have corpses roasting over an open car fire.
Yeah, but you probably shouldn't even be matching the speed limit in thick fog. Exceeding it is just crazy.
People need to learn not to drive faster than they can see to react. No further in an instant than their lights illuminate or atmospheric conditions permit. Speed limits won't save them in this case.
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In fact, they can't even [i]enforce[/i] a speed limit when the atmosphere comes into play. A cop can't pull over a car they can't see, and I don't know how well a radar gun works in the fog/rain.
It's entirely on drivers to do the responsible thing.
[QUOTE=bohb;36311583]Joy, now we can have even more fatal wrecks. IH-35 between San Antonio and Austin is one of the most dangerous stretches of freeway in the entire country, and I drive it every day. It's scary to read most people in here have a flagrant disregard for posted speed limits. They aren't guidelines, they're set that way for a reason.
It's pretty amazing to me people are willing to disregard the lives of people around them, and their own just to make a trip 5-10 minutes shorter. My dad was nearly killed by some idiot that thought it was alright to do 80 mph on the freeway. he subsequently lost control of his car, slammed into the concrete divider and bounced. His trajectory slammed him right into the rear drivers side door on my dads van, snapped the axel clean off and spun him 180 degrees around to face oncoming vehicles going 70+ mph.
I've also had brushes with death by fucking idiots that shouldn't be allowed to drive (most people in this thread) because they were going too fast. Things ranging from almost being rammed to being run off the road by cunts that can't be bothered to change lanes.
There's multiple injury accidents on IH-35 (and elsewhere) every day of the week due to excessive speed. And back in the early 2000s, there was a span of a few years where there was a fatal wreck nearly every day (the kind with dismembered burning corpses in crushed cars) all because people want to get somewhere 5-10 minutes quicker.
Oh, and assuming most of the people in this thread = the idiots that nearly crash into you is a morsel of brilliance. Gotta hand it to ya, sweeping generalizations based on a load of bullshit are awesome!
If you want to endanger us by speeding, do us a favor and crash into a bridge piling and take yourself out before you kill someone else.[/QUOTE]
There's two things to note here. One: Going with the flow is safer than sticking to the speed limit like it's a hardcoded law of the universe. Going with the flow makes sure you don't get rear-ended by inattentive twats, and if they manage it anyway, it's not as bad since the closing speed is much lower. If the speed limit is double nicks, you're doing double nicks, and the twat rearends you from 80, you're six kinds of fucked. If you're doing 75 with the rest of the pack and the twat doing 80 hits you it's just a fender bender. If the flow is 75 you do 75, regardless of what the sign says.
Secondly, there's something wrong with that area if drivers can't handle 80MPH. Something to do with assholes that think they own the road, or maybe they just aren't taught to drive properly. People speed like that on the interstate here too but I40 isn't some magical black hole of death that rivals the mexican cartels in body count.
Either that or you're just against them for some sort of moral/philosophical reason and exaggerated the hell out of an otherwise normal stretch of interstate. I find it hard to believe local authorities would let it get that bad. Just one fatal crash here and THP is all over the place for weeks making sure it doesn't happen again.
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In fact, they can't even [i]enforce[/i] a speed limit when the atmosphere comes into play. A cop can't pull over a car they can't see, and I don't know how well a radar gun works in the fog/rain.
It's entirely on drivers to do the responsible thing.[/QUOTE]
Radar guns can see just fine. The cop just can't see which car just set the alarm off. Lidar may, however, be affected.
we need a trans-american autobahn
from boston, through new york, then almost straight across to like, san fransisco or LA
I'll take another Route 66, thanks.
[QUOTE=StackOfPoo;36295392]I'd say this just increases the speed difference between vehicles. I see no reason why the people who now drive 85 mph on an 80 mph road wouldn't go up to 90 with these 85 roads. Not everyone's car(older ones, big ones) will be able to go up to those speeds and some people probably won't want to due to uncomfort or being economic.
Then again, I'm not american so what do I know.[/QUOTE]
Here in the U.S. (at least in New England) most interstates are paralleled by older highways with speed limits around 40-50, so that's an alternative to those who don't want to go that fast.
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