How fast should I be going on 95?

[Anonymous]

Most new highways in this area are built for speeds up to 100mph. Newer cars can easily go that speed. Speed limits are set arbitrarily low. We work to raise them in many areas axter consideration and study. and had in virginia raised the speed limit to 70 in many places. I am a traffic engineer. I think we should hire more behavior scientists to aid in designing roads and traffic features.

[Anonymous]

Nobody is doing what you are describing in the far right lane. Nobody. I drove i 95 up and down the eastern seaboard and never saw that. Now if you are not in the righest lane....
The expetion are a few younger drivers on I 95 in MD. But, they are just lunaticcs weaving in and out at over 90 miles an hour. Common sense when next to such a person is to speed up so they can pass you and keep on their suidice run, lest you end up road kill.

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Anonymous wrote:8-10 miles over or with the flow of traffic.

If I went with the flow of traffic, I’d be going 70+, I swear. I wish they’d just up the speed limit and be done with it.

Speed limits on major highways should be higher than they are.

People say that, but highways are engineered for maximum speeds, and cars are engineered for certain speeds. Cars going over faster, on roads not designed for those speeds = more accidents, and deadlier ones.

Only if you don't know how to drive. Which you clearly don't. What's a difference in engineering a U.S. high way and a German Authobahn? How are they engineered differently?!

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Anonymous wrote:8-10 miles over or with the flow of traffic.

If I went with the flow of traffic, I’d be going 70+, I swear. I wish they’d just up the speed limit and be done with it.

Speed limits on major highways should be higher than they are.

People say that, but highways are engineered for maximum speeds, and cars are engineered for certain speeds. Cars going over faster, on roads not designed for those speeds = more accidents, and deadlier ones.

Only if you don't know how to drive. Which you clearly don't. What's a difference in engineering a U.S. high way and a German Authobahn? How are they engineered differently?!

You sound like someone who makes rationalizations for your aggressive driving.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:8-10 miles over or with the flow of traffic.

If I went with the flow of traffic, I’d be going 70+, I swear. I wish they’d just up the speed limit and be done with it.

Speed limits on major highways should be higher than they are.

People say that, but highways are engineered for maximum speeds, and cars are engineered for certain speeds. Cars going over faster, on roads not designed for those speeds = more accidents, and deadlier ones.

Only if you don't know how to drive. Which you clearly don't. What's a difference in engineering a U.S. high way and a German Authobahn? How are they engineered differently?!

You sound like someone who makes rationalizations for your aggressive driving.

Sure, whatever. Yet, what is the difference in engeniiering the highway here and in Germany? Pray tell? Last time I drove a saw many mercedeses, BMW, Toyotas here, are they putting some speed controls in cars and highways here, they don't put in Germany? People know how fast their car can go. You sound like an incompetence driver, a slow poke and a worse danger to all on the road.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I have a reverse commute. Every day I get on the highway, situate myself in the slow lane, and chuck my cruise control onto 5 miles over the speed limit. Naturally, everyone on my left is going much faster than five miles over the limit. Whatever, not my circus, not my monkeys.

What irks me is the constant stream of people getting up my backside in the slow lane. It never ends, day after day, right up the bumper. How flipping fast do they want me to be going? Is there some unwritten speeding etiquette I didn’t get taught in Podunk, Ohio?

OP, first, I would not speed, but I would also not use cruise control.

Second, after a fender bender, I took a defensive driving course and it was eye opening. Most people drive unsafely. Speeding is the #1 cause of accidents. There is a mentality that leads to speeding and aggressive driving. What people do not realize is that you have to have the mindset that all it takes is one second to change your life and/or the life of someone else forever. It is not worth to be at your destination a few second earlier. As a relatively youngish man and now a father I used to enjoy driving but don't so much anymore because of the way others drive, particularly with my two young children in the care. You have to be super vigilant.

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Anonymous wrote:8-10 miles over or with the flow of traffic.

If I went with the flow of traffic, I’d be going 70+, I swear. I wish they’d just up the speed limit and be done with it.

Speed limits on major highways should be higher than they are.

People say that, but highways are engineered for maximum speeds, and cars are engineered for certain speeds. Cars going over faster, on roads not designed for those speeds = more accidents, and deadlier ones.

Only if you don't know how to drive. Which you clearly don't. What's a difference in engineering a U.S. high way and a German Authobahn? How are they engineered differently?!

You sound like someone who makes rationalizations for your aggressive driving.

Sure, whatever. Yet, what is the difference in engeniiering the highway here and in Germany? Pray tell? Last time I drove a saw many mercedeses, BMW, Toyotas here, are they putting some speed controls in cars and highways here, they don't put in Germany? People know how fast their car can go. You sound like an incompetence driver, a slow poke and a worse danger to all on the road.

I was right. We all know you who are. Your mentality is a dangerous one on the road.

[Anonymous]

+1 would not use cruise control. The differential is the dangerous part. You can't use your speed to control or police traffic around you.

Go with the flow of traffic, stay vigilant, and stay to the right if that's where you are comfortable.

[Anonymous]

Remember your speedometer is likely inaccurate. If you set it at 60 you're probably going about 56. The reason is that automakers are allowed some leeway in calibration as long as it shows you going faster vs slower than actual speed. If you want to see your real speed, it'll show it on Google Maps or Waze since it measures using the satellites.

Set it at 8+ or 10+ over and you'll be fine.

Also, cruise control is fine on highways -- that is what it's meant for. The cruise control on our car is adaptive and even slows the car down if there's a slower car in front, to maintain safe distance. If anything, it's better than driving manually because it always maintains a safe distance exactly since the computer controls it.

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Anonymous wrote:8-10 miles over or with the flow of traffic.

If I went with the flow of traffic, I’d be going 70+, I swear. I wish they’d just up the speed limit and be done with it.

Speed limits on major highways should be higher than they are.

People say that, but highways are engineered for maximum speeds, and cars are engineered for certain speeds. Cars going over faster, on roads not designed for those speeds = more accidents, and deadlier ones.

Only if you don't know how to drive. Which you clearly don't. What's a difference in engineering a U.S. high way and a German Authobahn? How are they engineered differently?!

You sound like someone who makes rationalizations for your aggressive driving.

Sure, whatever. Yet, what is the difference in engeniiering the highway here and in Germany? Pray tell? Last time I drove a saw many mercedeses, BMW, Toyotas here, are they putting some speed controls in cars and highways here, they don't put in Germany? People know how fast their car can go. You sound like an incompetence driver, a slow poke and a worse danger to all on the road.

I was right. We all know you who are. Your mentality is a dangerous one on the road.

Sure grandma.

[Anonymous]

88 mph! Saw this on a movie and it suggested interesting things happen at that speed

[Anonymous]

When I was at Yale, my drive from Bethesda to New Haven took me through many jurisdictions. In New Jersey, anything goes! People would drive without any regard for the posted limit, and nobody ever seemed to get stopped.

My home state of Maryland was the worst for people going under 55 MPH in the passing (far left) lane

[Anonymous]

95 is my nightmare, especially when my kids are in the car. I swear I can't go 20 miles on 95 without someone passing me at what has to be close to 85mph.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Remember your speedometer is likely inaccurate. If you set it at 60 you're probably going about 56. The reason is that automakers are allowed some leeway in calibration as long as it shows you going faster vs slower than actual speed. If you want to see your real speed, it'll show it on Google Maps or Waze since it measures using the satellites.

Set it at 8+ or 10+ over and you'll be fine.

Also, cruise control is fine on highways -- that is what it's meant for. The cruise control on our car is adaptive and even slows the car down if there's a slower car in front, to maintain safe distance. If anything, it's better than driving manually because it always maintains a safe distance exactly since the computer controls it.

I was the one who said not to use the cruise control because you are not staying with flow of traffic. I defer to this person, who suggests upping your cruise control level.

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Anonymous wrote:8-10 miles over or with the flow of traffic.

If I went with the flow of traffic, I’d be going 70+, I swear. I wish they’d just up the speed limit and be done with it.

Speed limits on major highways should be higher than they are.

People say that, but highways are engineered for maximum speeds, and cars are engineered for certain speeds. Cars going over faster, on roads not designed for those speeds = more accidents, and deadlier ones.

Modern cars - even non-luxury Japanese and American cars - can go really fast and maintain great control. It’s not 1980s Plymouth Reliants out there. Plus the roads often are engineered well.

Policy makers need to adjust speeds to take into account these factors - which means faster when safe and slower when required.