Why do people become unhinged when you drive exactly the speed limit?

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Anonymous wrote:Exhibit A of why Teslas are widely known to now be the worst drivers.

OP you're not driving on an empty country road. Do NOT use cruise control in the DC area.

I did the same in my prior non-EV car and I do the same when I'm driving my husband's gasoline Chevrolet Tahoe. The Tesla just makes it super easy to set the cruise to the exact limit everywhere you go. I haven't had a traffic ticket or been in an accident in 15 years.

I drive 5-10 over regularly and have never gotten a traffic ticket or had an accident. It’s not difficult.

5-10 over is reasonable. Just stay in the right lane.

I’m from Jersey. It’s been ingrained since birth.

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Anonymous wrote:If frustrated traffic is building up behind you, you are creating unsafe driving conditions for all and putting yourself at huge risk to be rear ended even if you are smugly adhering to the letter of the law. Part of being a good, safe driver is knowing when breaking the rules is actually the safer choice. Sure, those other jabronies could calm down and back off, and they’ll be at fault, but you can’t control them.

Nah. It’s the bad drivers’ responsibility to follow the law (and control their emotions, too!).

Drive with the flow of traffic. If literally all of the other drivers are going 5-10 over it’s unsafe to drive the speed limit. If you must drive the speed limit or below put on your blinkers and pull over periodically to let everyone pass.

You are such an idiot.

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Anonymous wrote:If frustrated traffic is building up behind you, you are creating unsafe driving conditions for all and putting yourself at huge risk to be rear ended even if you are smugly adhering to the letter of the law. Part of being a good, safe driver is knowing when breaking the rules is actually the safer choice. Sure, those other jabronies could calm down and back off, and they’ll be at fault, but you can’t control them.

How is any driver supposed to know the difference between normal traffic behind them and frustrated traffic behind them?

Also, if you are back there frustrated -- resist the urge to fly past everyone illegally because often the reason is something you can't see ahead of the "slow" driver who is going the speed limit.

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What? Did someone say driving the speed limit is unsafe?

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Anonymous wrote:I don’t care as long as you stay to the right and get out of my way. Most people feel the same, AFAIK.

I'm nearly always in the right lane, unless passing a super slow driver, then I'm right back in the right lane. And I'm never on my phone or distracted. Two hands at 10 and 2 and always doing the exact speed limit. Don't understand why it enrages so many drivers.

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Anonymous wrote:If frustrated traffic is building up behind you, you are creating unsafe driving conditions for all and putting yourself at huge risk to be rear ended even if you are smugly adhering to the letter of the law. Part of being a good, safe driver is knowing when breaking the rules is actually the safer choice. Sure, those other jabronies could calm down and back off, and they’ll be at fault, but you can’t control them.

Nah. It’s the bad drivers’ responsibility to follow the law (and control their emotions, too!).

Drive with the flow of traffic. If literally all of the other drivers are going 5-10 over it’s unsafe to drive the speed limit. If you must drive the speed limit or below put on your blinkers and pull over periodically to let everyone pass.

That’s not what the law states. Follow the law. You can do it!
And as you pass me, screaming and flipping me the bird, I’ll give you a smile and a wink.

This week I was doing the exact speed limit and had a new model SUV reckless pass me super aggressively. It was an impatient cop!

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Anonymous wrote:If frustrated traffic is building up behind you, you are creating unsafe driving conditions for all and putting yourself at huge risk to be rear ended even if you are smugly adhering to the letter of the law. Part of being a good, safe driver is knowing when breaking the rules is actually the safer choice. Sure, those other jabronies could calm down and back off, and they’ll be at fault, but you can’t control them.

Nah. It’s the bad drivers’ responsibility to follow the law (and control their emotions, too!).

Drive with the flow of traffic. If literally all of the other drivers are going 5-10 over it’s unsafe to drive the speed limit. If you must drive the speed limit or below put on your blinkers and pull over periodically to let everyone pass.

What? Put on your blinkers if you drive the speed limit? This is utter nonsense.

Not just nonsense, the act of routinely pulling over to the shoulder and back on again is 10000x more prone to causing an accident than safely carrying on at the exact speed limit.

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You do realize that even the speed cameras only give you a ticket if you are more than 12 mph over the speed limit right? (“Risking a ticket….”)

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Speed limits are suggestions.

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Are you in the right lane? Just be in the right and you’re fine.0

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If one person is tailgating you, they are a jerk. If 5 people are tailgating you, you are the jerk. It’s not that hard to understand.

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Anonymous wrote:Whether it's 25 35 55 or 70 mph, I set my Tesla cruise at precisely the speed limit. Without fail drivers behind me become unglued and pass me super aggressively, sometimes illegally so across a double line, and then flip me the bird or scream out their window. I think some may suspect I am on my cell phone and distracted? But I never am. I just drive exactly the speed limit everywhere I go.

That's fine, BUT you should be staying in the lane where the speed of other traffic matches yours the best. It's not just how fast, it's also how fast you are relative to other vehicles. If you're swimming along at 70 in a lane functioning as a passing lane, you're a hazard. But it's insane to set cruise at 25, 35, or even 55. Those are going to be roads/streets with the greater probability of hazards--kids, bikes, pedestrians, low-visibility cross streets, delivery vehicles stopped with their flashers on, elderly drivers, and so on. Cruise makes no sense at those speeds.

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Anonymous wrote:If one person is tailgating you, they are a jerk. If 5 people are tailgating you, you are the jerk. It’s not that hard to understand.

Nope.

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Anonymous wrote:If one person is tailgating you, they are a jerk. If 5 people are tailgating you, you are the jerk. It’s not that hard to understand.

Nope.

Ohh. Good one.