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Anonymous wrote:I don't honk at people going exactly the speed limit but I do think they are either anxious, sanctimonious, or fixated so much on their speedometer that they're failing to pay adequate attention to other things, and therefore not any safer than me and the rest of traffic going 5-10 over. I amuse myself by imagining that they might be trying to avoid police attention because they have no license or insurance, or have open warrants, or something. It also means they may be incapable of "reading the room" (I mean, the police here drive 10-15 over routinely), which isn't a good quality in a driver needing situational awareness, or aren't local and are thus unpredictable. So it makes sense to get away from them.

I did have a funny one recently in this vein, though, with a driver behind me who started honking furiously for me to go when a light turned green. I was stopped because there was an MCPS bus that had just pulled up with its lights flashing unloading kids on the other side of the street, and the median was only a painted stripe so everyone had to stop in both directions. I actually thought I was possibly sitting just past the point where the bus camera would have caught me (it pulled up and stopped while we were all at a red light) and could maybe have gone, but it was too expensive of a gamble to take. This guy one car length behind me would absolutely have been nailed. He didn't even realize that if I had moved he would definitely have gotten a $250 automated ticket. You're welcome, dipstick!

Obeying the law is sanctimonious? Wow this thread is crazy

+1 this thread is insane

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Anonymous wrote:No, it’s probably the speed. Although you might think you’re being a good citizen by driving at exactly the posted speed limit, the reality is that most of the roads can be safely driven on 10-15 mph above the posted limit.
I also bet you’re the type of driver that takes much longer to get up to the posted speed limit, and I’m also betting you are the kind of driver that probably sit’s at green lights for 5 seconds before moving. Driving in the area is bad enough as it is but it’s drivers like you that make the situation worse.

I'm not risking a ticket. And speeding and reckless driving is unsafe, not me. And I doubt you're an ER surgeon on call needed to go save a life. Your speeding doesn't even get you anywhere any faster. You're just raging and need to relax. And sadly, the streets are full of crazies like you who think law abiding drivers are the issue. YOU are the issue.

You sound a wee bit, er a lot unhinged… maybe you should try speeding up a bit. Stay in the far right lane if you insist on not adjusting your behavior to actual road conditions. You aren’t getting a ticket for going 5-10 over. Have some fun. It might help.

I have gotten a ticket for driving 10 over (80 in a 70)

Isn’t 80 reckless in VA? And the speed limit isn’t 70 anywhere within the DC area.

You wouldn’t get pulled over for 65 in a 55.

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Anonymous wrote:I don't honk at people going exactly the speed limit but I do think they are either anxious, sanctimonious, or fixated so much on their speedometer that they're failing to pay adequate attention to other things, and therefore not any safer than me and the rest of traffic going 5-10 over. I amuse myself by imagining that they might be trying to avoid police attention because they have no license or insurance, or have open warrants, or something. It also means they may be incapable of "reading the room" (I mean, the police here drive 10-15 over routinely), which isn't a good quality in a driver needing situational awareness, or aren't local and are thus unpredictable. So it makes sense to get away from them.

I did have a funny one recently in this vein, though, with a driver behind me who started honking furiously for me to go when a light turned green. I was stopped because there was an MCPS bus that had just pulled up with its lights flashing unloading kids on the other side of the street, and the median was only a painted stripe so everyone had to stop in both directions. I actually thought I was possibly sitting just past the point where the bus camera would have caught me (it pulled up and stopped while we were all at a red light) and could maybe have gone, but it was too expensive of a gamble to take. This guy one car length behind me would absolutely have been nailed. He didn't even realize that if I had moved he would definitely have gotten a $250 automated ticket. You're welcome, dipstick!

Obeying the law is sanctimonious? Wow this thread is crazy

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Anonymous wrote:I go the speed limit now or 5mph over. The police in my area have been cracking down due to the insane reckless driving. I now see them pulling people over often. I’ve gotten pulled over twice myself. The speed limit is what they want you to go. Not above, not below.

If I get tailgated, I don’t care. They can drive around me.

Where is this?

Anonymous wrote:OP and her stupid POS plastic car are infuriating. I hope someone runs you into a ditch.

Obliviously “driving the speed limit” is annoying and unsafe. And I’ll pretty much guarantee you do it regardless of lane or circumstance, you sanctimonious twit. The fact that you’re so frequently on the receiving end of other people’s ire is proof enough.

You’re supposed to drive with awareness of your surroundings. Every normal human being in the country understands that speed limits do not function as actual “limits”.

You’re just yet another self-righteous loser pretending to be stupider than you are.

Anonymous wrote:Funny. Just yesterday, I was wondering why VA drivers are so fking slow.

I assume they are slow in general.

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.