Cedarhill
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There are roads on which I have to travel such that if you try to merge or change lanes slower than 70 mph you are creating a dangerous situation and you are very likely to cause an accident. I think most major cities have at least one highway like that. The idea that 70 mph is too fast or is dangerous under many common situations is just silly. If it were true, then many of the nation's highways would be strewn with demolished vehicles and rotting human carcasses as emergency vehicles and morgues couldn't keep up. Worrying about going 70 mph is like worrying about lightning striking your house and burning you to death - yes it happens but is not probable enough to change your behavior.
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D & M
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Come drive the DC Beltway. And when you do, buckle up. 80 is the new 55. (Except at rush hour when is is 15 mph). If you are one of the 55 mph-ilers, just stay in the right hand lane and hang on.
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Fear of larger numbers? Canadians live in fear of the road because it takes a lot of kilometers for 55 mph.
Safe and prudent means different numbers to different folks and different vehicles.
So long as we observe rules, of the road and don't become obstacles everyone has a better than average chance.
I feel some are confusing reckless driving with safe and prudent speeds. 85 mph means little if everyone else is running in the same range and not playing leap frog at 67 mph or trying to run 160 in traffic weaving etc.
We try to keep a sufficient distance between us and traffic in front, rear, and besides us. Never run right next to anyone. Saw one today almost pull into the right lane on top of a Mustang. It's hard to do many times as everyone seems to want to cut in front and fill in the space.
It might sound strange but I find a few miles per hour faster than others keeps me out, of their region, of conflict or some other expression. Not sharp enough to get the language right.
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Here in CA, the towing speed limit is 55. I try not to go over 60, but usually stay at 55 (or less) My Honda has a towing speed limit of 65 anyhow, so I fee safe doing less than 60.
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tempforce
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in areas of heavy truck use. i am a firm believer of truck only lanes. where the trucks are restricted to one lane only... like the commuter lane in l.a. you pay your fee and you can pass all of the people in the free lanes.... a truck lane should be built just like the rail/bus lanes in the medium between opposing lanes of traffic... with exits only at each end of town... so local deliveries must use surface streets.... the truck lanes would of course have a passing lane every so often and have double the pavement bed depth of light traffic roadway...
they pay the extra fuel taxes/ mileage fees, they should get their own lanes....
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JJBIRISH
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In the perfect world, but we don’t live in the perfect world or drive on the perfect roads,, or operate the perfect vehicles, nor are we prefect drivers…
These idealistic arguments are always made by the proponents of higher speed limits… while they sound good they are bogus arguments…
The trouble is the speed differential increases with high limits making even bigger differences in closing times and distances, and even if the differential remained the same the same closing times and distances would change dramatically because of the added velocity…
You will never see the day when everyone goes with the flow… there will always be at any limit the darters and the weavers, and there will always be those that drive more conservative…
There will always be vehicles that can’t do the upper limit, and some that shouldn’t even though they could…
drivers of every age and every physical and mental capacity
While most new vehicle mfg’s claim stopping distances of less that 150 feet at 60 MPH and it may be achievable is unrealistic in the real world and doesn’t include reaction time… there are a lot of tables for these things and randomly picking one it list at 65 MPR the stopping distance of 202 feet plus 145 feet reaction time distance for a total stopping distance of 345 feet… at 85 Mph the stopping distance goes to 345 feet, reaction distance of 187 feet for a total of 532 feet… but these numbers still don’t include the perception time and distance… the time it takes to see and process the emergency before reacting… that can double the reaction time making the total distance from seeing a emergency to stopping 720 feet…
That is a long distance and a lot can happen in that span…
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rockportrocket
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Stay in Pa and let Texas worry about speed limits.
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jetboater454
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Even at 85mph,it will still be a 2 day drive across the state.
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nevadanick
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In my mind an 85 mph limit with multiple lanes is far safer than a 2 lane road with 2 different speed limits like they have in Ca.
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JJBIRISH
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rockportrocket wrote:Stay in Pa and let Texas worry about speed limits.
what a intelligent contribution, its just not as creative as Cedarhills…
I will take you recommendation under advisement and give it the consideration it TRULY DESERVESS…
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