Most speedometer aren't exactly accurate. Still I just make sure there is someone going faster than me. Two speeders one cop they'll pull over the faster one.
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North Carolina to begin enforcing posted Speed Limits
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Most speedometer aren't exactly accurate. Still I just make sure there is someone going faster than me. Two speeders one cop they'll pull over the faster one.
While they radio in your plate # to the cop waiting on the side of the road a few miles down.
I was under the impression that the buffer zone was because speed measurements are inherently inaccurate so you wouldn't be able to prove in court if someone was going e.g. 2 mph over the speed limit anyway
so what's stopping people from receiving the ticket, contesting it and it just gets thrown out because the measuring instrument is 10% variable?
so what's stopping people from receiving the ticket, contesting it and it just gets thrown out because the measuring instrument is 10% variable?
The Faceless Master
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SHARP INCREASE IN TICKETS TO MINORITIES INCOMING IN NC!
we all know this won't be enforced in a fair and balanced manner.
we all know this won't be enforced in a fair and balanced manner.
Liu Kang Baking A Pie
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?? Highway speeds are already ridiculous and above decent percentage chances of survival.
I see this is a thread where no one knows people who've died on the roads for no good reason.
David Incorporated Esq.
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Yep. If they want this to be taken seriously they need to kick up the limit to the 85th percentile speed like every traffic engineer with sense already suggests.
shadowsdarknes
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I think paying attention to a speed limit and making you are at all times maintaining the exact speed limit is extremely distracting.
We curve, go up hills, down hills, switch lanes, etc. Traffic is often stop and go.
Constantly checking my odometer is awful.
We curve, go up hills, down hills, switch lanes, etc. Traffic is often stop and go.
Constantly checking my odometer is awful.
It's a psychological thing for sure. I don't feel like I'm moving going the speed limit. And I find drivers doing the limit to be frustrating to be behind. Never understood what made my granny so mad about people doing the limit till I started driving. It feels like my momentum is being sapped, despite me knowing full well an extra 5-10mph makes little difference in the grand scheme of things.
CassidyIzABeast
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Feel bad for the NC residents that aren't going to hear this news until its too late. They're gonna make BANK the week they roll this out.
Technosteve
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I am pro i-77 toll lanes, but i moved here from jersey so i'm used paying to go fast.
Bearjewpiter
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In Indiana I go 70-80 in 60 or 55 MPH zones on the highway and the cops go faster than me most of the time. But I'm weirdly okay with the law, it bugs me that people almost never do the speed limit with no consequence at all. Not that I'd be thrilled to be pulled over but it's the principle of it
NoblesseOblige
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People acting like hitting the speed limit and then turning on cruise control is a challenge.
nabe_shogun
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I think I remember the police here in AZ saying there were going to do that on the 101 freeway. They did it for like a weekend, and that was it, and people still go 10+ over.
Tallshortman
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I remember when I lived in Atlanta, some dudes tested what would happen by driving 55 across all lanes on 75 in the city.
If they start enforcing these stupid ass low speed limits then they need to pull people over for cruising in the left lane as well.
Texas seemingly the most progressive state on speed limits.
If they start enforcing these stupid ass low speed limits then they need to pull people over for cruising in the left lane as well.
Texas seemingly the most progressive state on speed limits.
Frozenprince
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Highway average speeds (it's 65 here) are dangerous and unsafe because they aren't high enough to compensate for traffic density.
Speed limits are long proven to be ineffective at best.
plagiarize
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I drive the speed limit, but think nothing of going over it if I'm coasting downhill and momentum speeds me up above it.
At least my car has regenerative breaks, so I'm not wearing down the break pads to prevent that from happening if they started camping out at the bottom of any hills I roll down.
Uhm, the faster you're going the *more* space you need to leave between you and the car in front. IE, the less cars on that road before it reaches capacity. I don't see how increasing the speed limit would compensate for traffic density at all.
At least my car has regenerative breaks, so I'm not wearing down the break pads to prevent that from happening if they started camping out at the bottom of any hills I roll down.
Uhm, the faster you're going the *more* space you need to leave between you and the car in front. IE, the less cars on that road before it reaches capacity. I don't see how increasing the speed limit would compensate for traffic density at all.
$10 each way
Not to mention that adjacent roads can't expand or renovate for 50 years, which is against the NC State Constitution since it takes their control away to maintain said roads. Oh, and the company building said toll lanes just went bankrupt in Texas and has committed fraud in several states and countries doing this shit.
they have a habit of rejecting Federal funding if it comes with any strings attached that they don't like. I believe they were one of the states that rejected funding because it would go to Obamacare, so they (don't)pay for their own (lack) of a healthcare system.
So, how do you explain Germany having fewer car crash fatalities than America?
My aunt was run over by a drunk driver, but that was before I was born so technically I didn't know her.
I think this youtube video makes very good points.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2BKdbxX1pDw
plagiarize
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More stringent driving tests.
The test here in MA at least is an utter joke compared to the one I had to pass in the UK. It was less than ten minutes long and involved 4 rights turns, 2 left turns and a turn in the road. That was the whole test.
All I know is up here just north of the NC border in Hampton Roads you either have people driving 65-75(or faster) in the 55mph zone on the freeway(including people driving vehicles such as semi trucks and school buses!), or you have people driving 45-50, usually those in Priuses or minivans or SUVs like 4Runners.
Well guess if I can help it I won't drive through North Carolina because of that. Thanks Obama!
Liu Kang Baking A Pie
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I'm down for you explaining how having comparatively bad crash fatality statistics means we should be going faster.
NoblesseOblige
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Don't you have to be 18 to get a non-restrictive driver's license in Germany? They also have something like a quarter failure rate on tests.
Not...really...
Our gas tax is still pretty high, too. Gas is usually 30 cents cheaper per gallon in South Carolina, so I take advantage of it whenever I can.
Because
1) On the highway it is not a safety issue
2) People like getting where they're going faster
3) When going 5-10 over the limit is the norm, going the posted speed limit can actually be more dangerous.
Again, on the highway at least, the speed limits are typically based on several decades old ideas of what a safe speed limit is which does not apply to today's vehicles. Justifying a law with "it's the law" doesn't work.
LOL. Not everyone's commute is a nice stretch of open road. You can't just rely on cruise control. Plus not all cars have it.
How many people have you known who have died at the hands of someone driving with the flow of traffic 5-10mph over the limit? Don't be ridiculous. This is not dangerous driving. Weaving in and out of traffic at 30 over the limit, texting while driving, driving drunk, etc, is what kills people. Unless you have data to show that 65mph is safe while 75mph is dangerous....
Liu Kang Baking A Pie
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A link to this thread should be posted in the threads where everyone flips out about law-breaking bike riders who should "follow the rules of the road like the rest of us."
Technosteve
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Thats this backwards state's fault. I sit in traffic on rt 150 everyday and if i take i77 during rush hour i sit in traffic because people like to slow down to gwak at lake norman.
Thats what I immediately thought.
BlueTsunami
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Shooting fish in a barrel, they probably want to warn people about pumping this revenue stream some more
NoblesseOblige
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My piece of garbage 1991 Cherokee that struggled to even hit highway speed limits (70-75 here) had it so I'm going to say it's safe to assume the vast majority have cruise control. And in busy highway traffic I manage to use cruise control without a hitch, even if that means on occasion setting it 5 under the limit to tail the person ahead.
Goro Majima
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GoldenEye 007
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Ship these Dallas driver fucks that go 10 under in a 70mph zone for giggles. They'll be right at home in NC.
Liu Kang Baking A Pie
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http://freakonomics.com/2010/04/02/life-and-death-in-the-fast-lane/
https://www.cga.ct.gov/2013/rpt/2013-R-0074.htm
There's plenty of data. The second link is interesting though, because it points out going from 65 to 75 didn't move the total number of crashes up in the same proportion as 55 to 65, likely because people are more hyper-aware of their driving.
Colonel Nasty
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The photo enforced red light is the worst. In the busiest intersections yellow can't possibly last more than 3 seconds.
It would've gotten better if they just widened the road like people in the area wanted them to. But they opted for the toll roads instead, which not many are going to spring $10 each way for. Why? Because it's an absurd amount of money. And when it doesn't make the revenue they project it to, the people in the area are going to be fitting the bill for their corrupt bullshit.
Liu Kang Baking A Pie
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Widening the roads doesn't do jack shit. It also makes the roads along the popular exits even worse, and then what, are you going to widen those too?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Induced_demand
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