timetokill
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SHOTEH FOCK OP said:
Stay in the far-right lane with the semis, you law-abiding asshole
GTFO of the fast lane
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Slow down USA gaf - Your speeding cushion might be gone
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Stay in the far-right lane with the semis, you law-abiding asshole
GTFO of the fast lane
Night_Trekker
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Subitai said:Anyone experienced this yet?
Yep. Got caught a few months ago in the most obvious speed trap I've ever seen. Got home afterward, mentioned it to my mom, and she said my sister's fiance had been caught in the exact same place a few days earlier.
I generally use cruise control without even thinking and avoid being pulled over that way, but this time I was going downhill. Guess I need to ride my brakes next time!
Assholes.
Lunchbox said:drove 80 on 55 in the rain today
let them try and catch me and my 96 toyota camry
i also know the jedi mind trick of slowing down when i see these campers
is that the old "speed/slam on the brakes like a moron when you see a cop" move or something a bit more subtle?
legend166 said:The tolerance for speeding in America seems so much different to Australia. If you all came here and drove like you are saying here, you'd lose your licence in a few months and be poor.
Yep. 3km/h tolerance on the cameras is insane.
SatelliteOfLove
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SHOTEH FOCK OP said:All I know is I drive the posted 65 mph speed limit here in CA, and everyone either rides my bumper or passes me. Pull those fuckers over and earn some money for this poor state. I never see anyone pulled over.
No, they think in terms of "quotas", not "best spots to fish for reckless driving/too fast for conditions" that will also keep motorists safer and more honest.
BlackSalad
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hermit7 said:At least they give you 11 mph before the lights flash though.
I dont think this is true... I got flashed and ticketed going 9 over on the 17 NB by thunderbird.
But I've also noticed those SUV police vehicles they park on the 101 for weeks dont ever seem to flash, I think they're there just for show.
Crazy ones yes! The rest of us do for safety or because it is something else to be fined for now.zoukka said:Is it true that many americans don't wear seatbelts?
I saw it in hollywood productions.
timetokill said:Stay in the far-right lane with the semis, you law-abiding asshole
GTFO of the fast lane
People will tailgate you in ANY lane. So one day I just said fuck it and decided to drive 55 in the slow lane. Now I don't get tailgated anymore.
Corran Horn
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But 99 can be so fun!Aristotlekh said:I regularly have to drive from LA to Bakersfield, Sacramento, and Redding. Except for places where I know there are bound to be speed traps, I go 80 to 90 the entire drive.
Been 6 years, not busted yet. Hope that never changes, because doing 65 during that horrible stretch of nothing between Bakersfield and Sacramento is maddening bullshit.
...Use to go to Fresno alot :lol
CA is fine, if you want to do the speed limit, stay in the right lanes and your fine with all the mom drivers/truckers. I always get pissed when people get pulled over because everyone rubbernecks and causes traffic :lol
Wellington said:Only time I was ever stopped was in Virginia. I think at 8 MPH over the limit. :|
did he ask you what business you had in Virginia? I love that question.
timetokill said:Stay in the far-right lane with the semis, you law-abiding asshole
GTFO of the fast lane
Why is everyone reading fast lane when it isn't in the post?
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Night_Trekker said:Yep. Got caught a few months ago in the most obvious speed trap I've ever seen. Got home afterward, mentioned it to my mom, and she said my sister's fiance had been caught in the exact same place a few days earlier.
I generally use cruise control without even thinking and avoid being pulled over that way, but this time I was going downhill. Guess I need to ride my brakes next time!
Assholes.
Speed traps right after a hill are such bullshit.
Flo_Evans said:I just drove from St. Louis to Chicago and back at 20mph over the limit. (GPS not the generous speedo...) no problems.
Chicago is pretty out of control, so that's nothing out of the ordinary.
In fact, if you don't go 20 over in that area you're pretty much going to cause an accident...
Colonel Mustard
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I have a couple friends that are state troopers who told me this rhyme to remember, "nine and you're mine."
Something to keep in mind.
Something to keep in mind.
Pankaks said:Speed traps right after a hill are such bullshit.
around where i grew up the police did this as well as the opposite... the hill was very steep so obviously people who came down it had picked up a bunch of speed.... but what they also did was nail the people that gunned it on the run up to the hill in order so they could make it up the hill (this was a much much bigger deal during winter)... there were no turns or anything just a hill. no community of houses nearby either... there was a single farmhouse....
most annoying/obvious speed trap ever.
bjork said:I've been seeing lots of people pulled over when I drive to work at night lately. I get in the middle lane and do the speed limit, if someone doesn't like it, they have two paths to get around me. It's not worth the $500 or whatever just to get someplace a few seconds earlier.
So true. On a 20 minute commute like mine with only about 10 of it on the interstate going an extra 5-10 MPH faster is going to save me about 15-30 seconds, and that's provided I don't have to slow down from that speed at all, and there's always cops that people slow down for. I normally see 2 cops camping out on the way to work and about twice that on the way home.
Korey said:In California, 80 is like the unofficial speed limit, at least in the fast lane.
If you're going the speed limit, you're the one endangering everyone. I believe in traffic school they even tell you that the safest speed to go is with the flow of traffic. If you're gonna do 65 stay in the slow lane.
Indeed. It's rare to see people driving the speed limit in the left lane of a freeway/highway in the U.S. - it's certainly not just a Cali thing. If you don't enjoy driving fast, stay out of the left lane. That's the lane that people use to pass by slower drivers. Hell, it's something we actually learned when I took driver's ed at 15. :lol
timetokill
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spunibard said:Why is everyone reading fast lane when it isn't in the post?
Because we know.
If you're going the speed limit in the slow lane then nobody cares, and will go around you if they have to. Also nobody stays in that lane if they can help it because everybody there is going so slow.
If you're going the speed limit in the fast lane, then everybody wonders WTF you are doing there and why you're in the fast lane if you're going so slow
Assume != know. People tail and pass you even in the right.timetokill said:Because we know.
It does seem to fit tho.
BertramCooper
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My mother has a friend who is a state trooper, and apparently in Ohio, the rule of thumb among staties is "Five, you're fine. Nine, you're mine." So I typically drive roughly 5 MPH over the speed limit.
On the highway, I use cruise control whenever possible to make sure I'm not going too fast. Two of the three times I've gotten pulled over, I was driving a car that didn't have cruise control.
On the highway, I use cruise control whenever possible to make sure I'm not going too fast. Two of the three times I've gotten pulled over, I was driving a car that didn't have cruise control.
I always find it hilarious when sometimes two semis block both lanes on the highway going at the speed limit when one goes to pass the other (they always take their sweet time doing it too), because there's always gonna be some dumbass tailgating the left lane semi. Sometimes the right one too. :lol
layzie1989
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I'd say 75 is my preferred rate of speed here in socal
goldsoundz
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Fuck that. I drive at least 5 mph over the speed limit at all times, except for when I'm in residential areas.
How fucking retarded does one have to be to actually believe this shit?benita said:People who speed are no better than drink drivers.
Solideliquid
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BlackSalad said:I dont think this is true... I got flashed and ticketed going 9 over on the 17 NB by thunderbird.
But I've also noticed those SUV police vehicles they park on the 101 for weeks dont ever seem to flash, I think they're there just for show.
You were probably in a 55 mph construction zone?
Spider from Mars
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You and me both brother. Have yet to get a speeding ticket.goldsoundz said:Fuck that. I drive at least 5 mph over the speed limit at all times, except for when I'm in residential areas.
Panda Bear
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I was going 85 in a 70 and got caught and ticketed. A week later I was going 35 on a side street that unbeknownst to me was marked as a 25 and got another. The first one was my fault as I sped up to pass a line of cars in front of me, the other was bullshit since the road I was on was not a residential area. I thought I was going the limit considering that is the rate traffic almost always flows on that road and I've only ever seen 25 posted in a residential area.
I showed up to plead a lesser sentence on both of them. The first was in this little hick town outside of East Lansing and they didn't give me any lee-way at all. The second was in a fairly-populated town full of suburbs. A group of us who all got the ticket on the same road were taken into the courtroom and offered a deal to pay the fine but waive the points if we didn't challenge the ticket. Needless to say I took the deal. I guess I learned that you're not going to get out much if your ticket is in a small town that needs your money.
I showed up to plead a lesser sentence on both of them. The first was in this little hick town outside of East Lansing and they didn't give me any lee-way at all. The second was in a fairly-populated town full of suburbs. A group of us who all got the ticket on the same road were taken into the courtroom and offered a deal to pay the fine but waive the points if we didn't challenge the ticket. Needless to say I took the deal. I guess I learned that you're not going to get out much if your ticket is in a small town that needs your money.
liquidspeed
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I'm in Saint Louis and I generally drive about 75 mph, sometimes 80. Its weird because sometimes people just blow past me like Im doing nothing, and other times ( depending on teh day and time of day) im weaving around ppl who appearently have no where to go...
Then there there are the people who you occasionally see who blow past at like 140 mph, which is absoultely nuts.
The other day my mom was in the car with me because we had to go pick hers up from the mechanic, and I was doing 70 - 75, and she was getting totally freeked out... so i dont think i can drive with her very much lol.
edit: I have been driving for 5 years and I have 1 speeding ticket which I got about 4 years ago.
I recently got a tickt because one of my headlights was out. It was a seemingly harmless 2 mile drive to a Mcdonnelds for dinner and Bam. a 5 doller dinner ended up costing 70.
Then there there are the people who you occasionally see who blow past at like 140 mph, which is absoultely nuts.
The other day my mom was in the car with me because we had to go pick hers up from the mechanic, and I was doing 70 - 75, and she was getting totally freeked out... so i dont think i can drive with her very much lol.
edit: I have been driving for 5 years and I have 1 speeding ticket which I got about 4 years ago.
I recently got a tickt because one of my headlights was out. It was a seemingly harmless 2 mile drive to a Mcdonnelds for dinner and Bam. a 5 doller dinner ended up costing 70.
In Oklahoma, they only pull you over if you're 9 MPH over, at least that's what a friend of mine, who is a cop, told me.
I went out to San Diego for Spring Break, and goddamn. I got on Interstate 5 doing 65 MPH and had so many people honking at me and shit. Running with the flow of traffic, I was doing close to 80 MPH. Shit was crazy, but I actually got passed by CHP all the time.
I went out to San Diego for Spring Break, and goddamn. I got on Interstate 5 doing 65 MPH and had so many people honking at me and shit. Running with the flow of traffic, I was doing close to 80 MPH. Shit was crazy, but I actually got passed by CHP all the time.
The Shadow said:I freaking hate California. I frequently drive 5-7 miles above the speed limit but in CA people seem to go 10-15 mph faster than me. I'm the "slow" one. No other state seems to have such pushy obnoxious drivers as CA either. Fucking hate California drivers.
:lol I usually drive 80 mph tops when it isn't as congested. I'm with you though. Sometimes I don't need to be in a hurry and just wanna cruise to my destination while listening to music so I'll drive the speed limit. Drivers behind me will let me know by burning their gas pedal passing over me and giving me a dirty ass look as if to say what the fuck is wrong with you and I'm not even in the fast lane. City life. So stressful man.
JdFoX187 said:I went out to San Diego for Spring Break, and goddamn. I got on Interstate 5 doing 65 MPH and had so many people honking at me and shit. Running with the flow of traffic, I was doing close to 80 MPH. Shit was crazy, but I actually got passed by CHP all the time.
:lol
Ether_Snake
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This is what we are seeing everywhere: rob the citizens of their disposable income even further, make everything obligatory expenses.
On the short term, the state makes some money, on the longer term, the economy will crash because a healthy economy is one where people have money to spend freely on what they want. Higher fuel costs, higher food costs, higher rent costs, higher electricity costs, higher internet and phone costs, etc., all make it more difficult for the economy to run because money ends up flowing only into certain sectors.
We are not out of this mess any time soon. Until the cost of life plunges, as it should have as a result of the recession, we will head for another recession.
On the short term, the state makes some money, on the longer term, the economy will crash because a healthy economy is one where people have money to spend freely on what they want. Higher fuel costs, higher food costs, higher rent costs, higher electricity costs, higher internet and phone costs, etc., all make it more difficult for the economy to run because money ends up flowing only into certain sectors.
We are not out of this mess any time soon. Until the cost of life plunges, as it should have as a result of the recession, we will head for another recession.
How to speeds:
Code:
10: Speed
20: Get Caught?
30: GOTO 50
40: GOTO 10
50: Admit nothing
60: Trial by written declaration
70: Win?
80: GOTO 10
90: Trial de novo
100: Request rescheduling
110: Request granted?
120: GOTO 100
130: Argue in court
140: Win?
150: GOTO 10
160: Plea for reduction/no points/etc.
170: Accept punishment
180: GOTO 10:lolperfectchaos007 said:I almost got killed for driving the speedlimit. some guy behind me who I didn't notice got really pissed and when he finally got around me, he ran me off the road causing me to drive off in the grass at 65mph. So it's either my safety, or a speeding ticket. I guess a speeding ticket is better than being killed so I'll have to speed a little.
Panda Bear
Banned
I think you're vastly overestimating the impact traffic tickets have on the economic well-being of most people.Ether_Snake said:This is what we are seeing everywhere: rob the citizens of their disposable income even further, make everything obligatory expenses.
On the short term, the state makes some money, on the longer term, the economy will crash because a healthy economy is one where people have money to spend freely on what they want. Higher fuel costs, higher food costs, higher rent costs, higher electricity costs, higher internet and phone costs, etc., all make it more difficult for the economy to run because money ends up flowing only into certain sectors.
We are not out of this mess any time soon. Until the cost of life plunges, as it should have as a result of the recession, we will head for another recession.
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