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My rule of thumb is to make sure that I'm going slower than average, or less than five miles over, whichever is faster.
Anuvver fing - when they do sumfing, they try to make it look like somfink else to confuse everybody. When one of them wants to lord it over the uvvers, 'e says "I'm very speshul so'z you gotta worship me", or "I know summink wot you lot don't know, so yer better lissen good". Da funny fing is, arf of 'em believe it and da over arf don't, so 'e 'as to hit 'em all anyway or run fer it.
Assuming you speedsters can afford any tickets you can get, have you also figured out what insurance cost increases will cost you over the rest of the time you intend to drive? I'm not poor but I don't have that kind of cash to throw away...
Every time a terrorist dies a Paratrooper gets his wings.
Depends really on the conditions and traffic. Most of the time I am driving to the limit because that is what everyone else is doing. If I have a clear bit of road then I might put my foot down.
It depends upon a number of factors including weather, time of day, number and type of other road users, the state of repair the road is in etc.
Mostly in 30-40mph area's I try and stick to the limits especialy around schools and shopping centres. Single carriage roads of 50mph to national limit I tend to go about 10-15 mph faster (as long as it appears safe to do so) then on the motorway I tend to cruise at between 85-90mph.
Where the motor way is concerned I think that it is the slower drivers 60mph and below who are the bigger danger. There really should be an ideal minimum limit enforced.
Gailbraithe wrote:My speedometer is broken, has been for the last four years*, so I rarely know how fast I'm going. But whenever I go past those speed-checking signs I'm always within 1 mile of the posted limit, and I never get pulled over for speeding (despite multiple speed traps in my neighborhood), so I must drive the speed limit.
*Not just the speedometer either. Gas, oil, rpm gauge, battery, odometer, all of it is nonfunctional. Completely dead dash. Every mechanic I've taken it to has tried to completely rip me off, wanting me to spend $1000+ to replace all of the dash instruments, which are all out, when I know for a fact that the problem is a bad ground somewhere behind the dash. So until I can find a good Jeep electrician who won't try to scam me, it's staying unfixed. Besides, dash instruments are for pussies. If you can't tell how much gas is in your tank by feel, you don't deserve to drive.
If you know what is wrong, why don't you fix it?
I don't have the tools or the space to take apart my Jeep's dash, and I don't know enough about auto electronics to do the job. And like I said, the mechanics I've taken it to have all tried to sell me on replacing all of the dash instruments, which is $1000+ and won't fix anything.
And nobody I know has been able to recommend a good auto electrician in Seattle. So if any of you know of one, speak up.
youll need screw drivers. Goto a local junk yard and pop out the same dash panel set as your jeep. Pay them the cheap fee for th part. Go home and replace the old one with your newer junk yard dash panel. Not knowing how to do it, itll take you about 20 mins to replace. Flat head screwdriver for pulling off the snap on panels and usually its a phillups for the rest. Sometimes they are crazy star patterns, but if youur really nice, the junk yard people will loan you the right tools. Usually its a couple screws and then detaching the wiring harness. Seriously its much more simple then it sounds.
Then you pick up a bunch of bits and it's perfect. It has an amazing amount of power for such a small screwdriver. I picked it up when I used to work at a freightliner. It was perfect for pulling the hundreds of screws out of the dash.
I'd also wager that if a person knew what type of jeep they could find pretty good instructions on google.
CptJake wrote:Assuming you speedsters can afford any tickets you can get, have you also figured out what insurance cost increases will cost you over the rest of the time you intend to drive? I'm not poor but I don't have that kind of cash to throw away...
Given that I've generally carried at least 1 speeding ticket on my license for most of my adult life, it's a cost of not wasting time sitting in the car. I'm not so poor that I can't afford to buy some time.
Let me put it this way: if you're "rich" enough to afford lawn service, car wash, pool service, etc., then you can afford to drive faster and pick up the occasional ticket. You can always earn more money, but you can never get back time.
Now, assuming you're a typical slowpoke Toyota driver, stop blocking traffic, keep the feth over to the right, and stay the feth out of the left lane!
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I usually try to go about the same as the people around me, be that at or above the speed limit.
People that go below piss me the hell off though. I'm sorry, but if you're going to go 35 in a 45, I am going to pass you, and I will probably give you an angry look/and or hand gesture as I go by.
One time I was stuck behind this guy talking on his phone and going about 15 mph in a 45 mph zone. I passed him the first chance I got, and my friend in the back mooned him as we roared past
CptJake wrote:Assuming you speedsters can afford any tickets you can get, have you also figured out what insurance cost increases will cost you over the rest of the time you intend to drive? I'm not poor but I don't have that kind of cash to throw away...
In my state, you are allowed to take a driver improvement course instead of taking the ticket every 18 months.
It does not show up on your driving record, and only costs $80 (including court fees).
CptJake wrote:Assuming you speedsters can afford any tickets you can get, have you also figured out what insurance cost increases will cost you over the rest of the time you intend to drive? I'm not poor but I don't have that kind of cash to throw away...
Given that I've generally carried at least 1 speeding ticket on my license for most of my adult life, it's a cost of not wasting time sitting in the car. I'm not so poor that I can't afford to buy some time.
Let me put it this way: if you're "rich" enough to afford lawn service, car wash, pool service, etc., then you can afford to drive faster and pick up the occasional ticket. You can always earn more money, but you can never get back time.
Now, assuming you're a typical slowpoke Toyota driver, stop blocking traffic, keep the feth over to the right, and stay the feth out of the left lane!
So, if you drive 60 MPH you go a mile a minute. At 75 MPH you cover that mile in 45 seconds. How many miles do you have to drive over the speed limit to REALLY make abig differencein time spent? IF you get pulled over and it is a 5 minute stop you already lose most of the time 'saved'. Alternatively you can always plan your time better so you don't have to speed.
I can't tell haw many times some schmuck HAULS ASS past me just to end up at a red light right in front of me. How much time is really saved by speeding?
My guess, not much.
Jake
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If, over the course of the year, I spend X hours behind the wheel, and speeding cuts that to 80% of X, then I've gained 20% of X hours back in my life. Totally worth it.
How come no 4th option:
On the norm I drive how I want. Most days it is with the flow of traffic, being in Southern California, seems the flow is 10mph over posted limit. Some days I will sit behind big rigs (at a safe distance, mind you) and draft at 10mph under posted limit, because no one wins when people are in a hurry.
Occasionally when it is very late at night and I am on the open road, I open up my truck. I have had it up to speeds of 135mph, on roads I know well, when there was virtually NO traffic.
I may not have been being safe in your eyes; however I trust my vehicle as I am the #1 mechanic on it, and as I said, when going such speeds I was on a well known road with no one else on it (and IF there was law enforcement, either they were napping, or thought the size of a full size diesel pickup truck doing nearly 140mph was too odd to bother pulling over).
Oh, and to whoever it was looking for a jeep mechanic/automotive electrician, I would recommend googling "jeep forums" and see if you cant post your question about your malfunctioning dash on there, or find someone who will help you out with your trouble there. I have made an abundance of friends as well as learned a lot more than I would have ever known about my truck(and others) by being on certain automotive forums.
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Chrysaor686 wrote:Impatient drivers and people who get severe road rage are the only things related to driving that genuinely piss me off. Nothing in your life is important enough to insult or accost people because they are observing mandated traffic laws. You'll get there eventually; chill the hell out.
I go the speed limit. If I'm late getting somewhere, then feth it. I get there when I get there.
It's still okay to cuss out idiots who don't use their turn signal, right? Because I really hate that.
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Depends on where I'm at. In my hometown I usually only drive at most five over. The cops there are pretty on top of things and for some reason everyone drives at or under the limit so more than a few miles over it draws attention and tickets.
Where I live now if you don't drive ten over the limit you're obstructing traffic and the cops will be passing you.
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