You laugh but this is not a joke. Oregon drivers are too fucking courteous and drive slowly. It's like they are so happy to live in such a beautiful place that they can't be bothered to rush about.
Ok, so hear me out, what if instead of treating it as a race, fight or other expression of competition, we would just treat driving as a way to get from point A to point B? Speeding on a highway is a great example of diminishing returns coupled with high risk, so why not just enjoy the ride and sit back for a moment?
The average commute is 24 miles a day. If you're doing a 3 hour commute like it's a NASCAR event then you need to reevaluate something. Not put everyone's lives at risk with reckless driving.
Yes and no. But if you're commuting 3 hours a day at an average 65 mph your burning 500 dollars a month in gas. More if you're going faster.
At that point eating 250 more a month in rent to live closer in isn't the world's worst idea.
And you're still putting other people in a lot of danger just for your convenience. If an accident does happen then survivability drops off sharply after 65-70 mph.
I drive with traffic, sometimes 90, sometimes 30, sometimes 70... And no, with 40mpg I spend 200 a month in gas. I can assure you driving 97 North/south, driving the posted speed limit will get you killed.
I'm not sure why I'm even arguing with you about this, you're West Coast, correct?
The east and west coast have the same popular myth. And it's bullshit. The stats don't lie. Fatality increases with accident speed. If you want to survive an accident then stay 70 or below.
Neat. Maryland has traffic codes for hindering traffic. If you are impeding traffic you will get a ticket.
Regardless of physics. You going into this so deeply tells me that you're either Californian or Washington state. I'd go with Californian on the premise you haven't let this go yet.
Also I haven't downvoted you a single time. That's not me doing that.
I grew up in Maryland actually. And you have to go very slow, like 40 on the controlled access roads, before they issue that ticket. Going the speed limit or near it isn't a crime, no matter how much you want it to be. And every cop I've talked to wants us all to slow down, especially when the 95 gets fogged out. The Southwest has the same problem with people yeeting themselves into sandstorms and getting into accidents on mountain highways where they roll right off the mountain.
Thinking about it I'm pretty sure any cop that tried to bring a ticket for doing 60 in a 65 would get laughed out of the courtroom.
I commute 5 hours a day for work, and have to go in 3 times a week. I take the train now, but still have to drive 25 min to the train station. Taking the train takes exactly the same time as driving to my job. Which by itself is ridiculous. Up until recently, the option of taking the train in was not available. So I spent 5 hours in my car. The price difference between moving closer to work Vs living where I am right now is almost 2.5k a month. I don't get paid enough to pay 48 to 52k a year in rent. I work in cancer research. The jobs are in the city, not outside. So I don't have a choice, because every company that does what I do is in the city, and doesn't do remote work.
I have a feeling you don't really understand how things work for people sometimes
If you have a train then you're not the one concerned with the speed of traffic. Unless you're trying to shave seconds off that drive to the Park and Ride?
At any rate the answer to the housing crisis is not turning our highways into a racetrack. Your edge case in no way justifies that.
I assume that's the law pretty much everywhere. That said, most of my troubles have been with people who speed by a lot and weave through traffic. Slower cars are less of a problem because while it might be the same speed difference, I see them much better and they usually don't switch lanes erratically.
That said, I like traffic where I live now, because speeding 15% will get your license suspended, 30% will get you into jail. Traffic tends to be speedy, but coherent, everyone drives around the limit.
Weaving is not moving properly though either. Speeding and weaving through traffic is public endangerment where I live. We have a very good road safety record as well.
Even better would be taking the train, because it gives you time to study nature, read a book or take a short walk if you feel like it without delaying your arrival.
Because you are not important. I am very important. I have places I need to be yesterday. And, yes, it IS a truck. I have never used the bed of my truck or it would get dirty. /dont drive //dont have a car ///but I DO have a DL! Has my picture and everything
I will admit to being new to Oregon after getting here from DFW about 10 days ago. And I have been trying to balance driving safely while admiring the views with being mindful of other drivers and allowing them to pass on the left when a turn-out area (or whatever they're called) presents itself on mostly-one-lane-each-direction roads.
But sometimes, man, these people wanna go 25 miles over the limit on winding mountain roads. I'll go 10, maybe 15 mph over when it's safe to do so and I'm going with the flow of traffic. But I'm new to the state, new to mountain driving, and have no idea the prominence of cops and staties and their speeding ticket quotas in this place. Basically, if you see my Texas plate, please don't ride my ass...I'll move over as soon as I can!
Among us bicyclists, they're called niceholes. They're just trying to be nice to the bicyclist, but we would rather they just follow the traffic law so that they're predictable.