Anonymous wrote:Especially on two-lane highways with a speed limit of 55+? Just curious.

A mechanical problem arose with the vehicle, not an ongoing or long-standing problem, but they need to take that route to get to home/dealer/service place.

*within ~5%

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP is a symptom of our national disease.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/10/magazine/dangerous-driving.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

I read this article, thanks for sharing. But it doesn't say that OP is the problem. People who are driving that far under the speed limit are a danger to the road. Can't drive with traffic on the highway? Find another way.

In my life I’ve only encountered “1/2 speed limit” when a bicyclist was at the head of a traffic line. And I’m from Gods waiting room (Florida) with tons of old drivers.

OPs perception of their “slow” speed is probably ~5% of speed limit where OP wants to go 15mph over.

OP means why do people drive like 55 is the upper max speed. Which is correct.. OP thinks that 55 mph means, 55 or above. Speeding.

Warrants.

Anonymous wrote:I'm an anxious driver (did not learn how until I was 27, grew up in Manhattan). I don't drive as slowly as in your example, but usually 5 miles below the speed limit in the slowest lane, which seems to infuriate some.

Please just get off the roads.

Anonymous wrote:OP is a symptom of our national disease.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/10/magazine/dangerous-driving.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

I read this article, thanks for sharing. But it doesn't say that OP is the problem. People who are driving that far under the speed limit are a danger to the road. Can't drive with traffic on the highway? Find another way.

I'm an anxious driver (did not learn how until I was 27, grew up in Manhattan). I don't drive as slowly as in your example, but usually 5 miles below the speed limit in the slowest lane, which seems to infuriate some.

Some little, old lady who rarely drives and is very nervous. She has to get somewhere and drives half the speed in trepidation.

Anonymous wrote:They’re on a bicycle. Except that’s more like 1/4 the speed limit

The worst!!

1/2 never, but there’s always one person going 55 in the left lane that backs up traffic for miles.

Anonymous wrote:Especially on two-lane highways with a speed limit of 55+? Just curious.

Weed and stupidity.

They’re on a bicycle. Except that’s more like 1/4 the speed limit

Anonymous wrote:Especially on two-lane highways with a speed limit of 55+? Just curious.

They're baked.

Anxiety/nervousness, being unfamiliar with the area, being in a rental car or driving someone else’s car. Old age or compromised health. Texting, eating, other “activities” that compromise concentration.

I recently started slowing down because for whatever reason, the reality of my aunt’s death hit me while I was driving, and it was the first time I cried. It only “hit me” for a few minutes, and I was able to get myself back together and go the speed limit. But it was a tough few minutes and if I had been near an exit, I would have taken it. But I was nowhere near an exit.

This isn’t really a mystery. There’s not a single thing on here that anyone has said that is shocking and no one has ever thought of before.