There’s a difference between driving fast and being ready to move when an opportunity appears. It mainly comes down to watching traffic far enough down the road so you anticipate where the gap will be. That then allows you to smoothly merge into it.
Yea but my dad telling me to drive out on main street from a stop sign on a cold engine the moment he sees a space that is more than 5 meters really doesn’t help me focus on the far-away gaps lol
If you’d spent less time talking, you could have gone like three times already!
It’s so dangerous when the passenger tries to pressure the driver to go. If they thought it was safe they would have gone. If they decide to listen to the passenger instead of their own judgement, they are way more likely to get into an accident. Even if the advice itself is good they might take too long to process it or misunderstand. Like “Take a right, now!” then they drive up onto the curb ten feet before the turn.
Also, if the driver is making mistakes out of nervousness, yelling at them makes it worse every time. My passenger yells anything they can walk the rest of the way.
Especially when the driver is a cartoon Martian
If you hesitate, wait.
Only the worst drivers never miss the turn.
A good driver misses their exit sometimes. A bad driver NEVER misses their exit.
Never heard it put like that before.
This is why I just let my wife drive. She’ll run the light at the last second if she can while I never will, and it’s less frustrating for both of us to just let her handle it.
There’s a nice little app on F-Droid called Speedr.
Edit: Not seeing it there anymore, but found the github for it: https://github.com/jakehilborn/speedr
It checks your speed against what open street map has set as the speed limit for the road. It will record how often, how long, how much you drove over the speed limit during your drive.
It will then use that data to estimate the amount of time you actually saved.
I regularly drive ~15 mph over the speed limit to keep up with traffic. Do a long drive of more than eight hours at a time around every other month. In a year I saved under 20 minutes.
Maybe a more aggressive driver could get more savings, but as far as I’m concerned I’ll just leave a little earlier.
Edit: Also, not sure that math adds up. Going off of my memory from a few years ago.
That math ain’t mathing.
Assuming a “long drive” is at least 200 miles and most of the trip is on a highway without a lot of slow spots, you should save much more than 20 minutes a year regularly going 15 mph over.
With a lower highway speed limit of 60 mph, going 15 over will put you at 75 mph. In an hour, you’re 15 miles further down the road going 75 than 60 and it will take you 15 more minutes going 60 to get to that same spot.
Specific conditions will change the numbers, obviously. I’d consider both a few hundred mile drive and driving through NYC during rush hour to be long drives and they’ll have vastly different stats. By all means leave earlier but that Speedr app seems like it’s mathing wrong.
The math might be correct it just doesn’t reflect what it says. Its 20min saved compared to going all of the roads at the speed limit all the time.
So every time you slow down (because of trafic, a red light, a crossroads or for any other reason) the app will calculate you as going slower and “loosing” time. Of course you couldn’t actually have gone the speed limit in those situations but the app can’t know that. It actually can’t calculate the time you saved.
But I can’t find the app on fdrois so I can’t check.
Not sure if it was taken off FDroid for lack of updates or something, but I’ve found the github here. https://github.com/jakehilborn/speedr
The math doesn’t add up right. All I can go off of is my memory of the results after a year of driving in a way where I thought I was speeding often.
I tried to find the app but couldn’t. Are you sure it’s the right name ?
Not sure if it was taken off FDroid for lack of updates or something, but I’ve found the github here. https://github.com/jakehilborn/speedr
Thank you !
This how I be shouting at other drivers lol
Don’t think I should go before you just because I have the right of way at a four way uncontrolled intersection.
Seize the gap, you fool!
Anyways, it’s more of a rotary thing
Bro people I drive with SLAM on the breaks to obey traffic lights as they’re changing sometimes like, you’re gonna get rear ended doing that just go through the yellow. The green light is delayed ffs.
They aren’t all delayed, there are a few lights in my city that go green as soon as the other one goes red.
That’s what happens when you have massive wealth inequality and fixed-price fines. You have to set the fine high enough to deter most people from misbehaving, but that amount of fine could saddle some people with literal years of debt for running a red light and they act irrationally as a result.
I know my vehicle’s limits, other drivers do not.
The second I stopped to think about that for a second when I got my license, I realized that goes for other people too.
Just because the combination of my vehicle and driving could have gotten through that gap, doesn’t mean yours can.
So I’ll wait, just please actually go when the light changes and you’re 3 car lengths into the intersection…
Everybody just wants to get where they’re going safely. If you’re always behind slow drivers you need to leave a little earlier because if your schedule is that tight any little thing is going to make you late.
Most people die between 40-60.
Speeding isn’t dangerous. The ability to make smart decisions about when to speed is.
I think you mean, the inability.
No, plenty of people have the ability. It’s a mix.
I think they meant disability.
Most people die between 40-60
According to what study?
Self driving cars will be so much fun if they become the norm
No, we’ll be forced to work in them, too.
It’ll be just like doing homework on the school bus!!!
You don’t really hear about accidents for going slow… just saying.
you don’t hear about the dude who was pulling an insurance scam doing 15 in the lane next to the fast lane on a 12 lane interstate who got plowed into and nearly died because you gotta do at least 30 to get out of that scam with minor injuries? do you live in a cave?
Well damn, alright. I didn’t know that. You happy now?
if cars drove under the speed limit and not over all the time. there would have been plenty of time to go. speeding is inconsiderate to other users and makes everyones travel worse
There’s a lady that goes 30km under the speed limit on the highway during rush hour. In front of her clear traffic, behind her, grid lock.
Not going the speed limit creates the traffic and makes travel worse.
That is illegal where I live.
What’s the range allowed? There are plenty of places with minimums, but many have such a wide window that they may as well not bother.
Driving to the conditions is also vague. Some people feel safe driving near the limit in snow, some think you have to go 40 under. Now that also depends on if you have snow tires or not too. If you don’t, you shouldn’t be trying to reach the limit unless the road is clear and dry. But even traction is reduced once it gets near freezing regardless.
In the end, it’s a judgment call, and pulling the person over is only ever going to make the situation worse. They won’t suddenly start going faster or find a different route the next day.
Highway is 100-110, and slow moving I think is 40km/h under the limit. No slow moving or bikes allowed on the highway in the city.
It’s part of the Can-A-mex corridor, or used to be until the ring road was built.
Also, snow, plenty of reasons to only go 40km/h in some conditions, going under the limit is illegal only when you’re truly limiting traffic, and that’s always a judgment call.
found the carbrain. you also changed the subject. i said nothing sbout a highway.
if its rush hour on a highway, everyone is driving under the limit.
if its rush hour on a highway, everyone is driving under the limit.
This might be true in a lot of places, but let me introduce a counterpoint: Los Angeles.
We invented freeways, and I’m convinced we’ve perfected shitty traffic. Get on the 405 anytime between 6a and 10p? Gridlock, everyone is going below the speed limit. Get on basically any of our other freeways at rush hour? Yeah, that’s going to be us doing our best impression of NASCAR, driving bumper to bumper at least 10 over the speed limit.
It’s so well known that it’s a meme at this point. Every holiday season there’s a bunch of posts on social media about visitors needing to get with the program. My favorite this year was the “stay the fuck away from the left lane” guy.
Is it safe? Probably not. Is it reality in LA? Absolutely.
Maybe your local government could do proper planning so that convenient and timely public transit would offer her a viable alternative to driving? Let’s not blame individuals for systemic problems.
She could also take different roads where the speed limits suit her comfort.
The other drivers could also take those different roads, too, and avoid the slow driver, no?
You don’t think those roads are already congested by people trying to do exactly that…?
So there you have your answer as to why she’s on the highway to begin with! Anyway, good public transit would help with the traffic congestion, too.
Other way around dude, roads are Congested from people already ignoring the highway since it’s going to be bad. Pick your poison.
And there is okay public transport, some people just prefer the “freedom” of driving. Even the best public transport isn’t going to make it across town in the same amount of time as a non-lighted highway. Too many stops.
You seem to have such a narrow view and understanding of the complexities of transportation and just want to bloviate about being anti car.
I’m leaving this conversation now, there’s no good that will come from trying to educate you, since you wouldn’t want to be, to set in your ignorance.
"Under the speed limit’ is also 59 (assuming 60 is the limit)… Not just 30…
Speeding also means 1km/h over as well, you saying a 2km/h difference is what makes something safe vs unsafe…?
No it’s what makes it legal vs illegal
Plenty of people dangerously overtake to go just 5kmph faster. That was my point but it seems I should have stated it plainly.
Going under is just as illegal as going over.
It literally isn’t buddy
It Literally is you uneducated buffoon.
It’s a speed limit, as in “go no faster than this.” Speed minimums are a different law. On surface streets speeding doesn’t even save you any time because of traffic lights. You might get a cycle or two ahead, but you still end up waiting at a light with everyone else.
There’s also speed minimums in most country’s.
And my comment was specially about the highway if you cared to read instead of bloviating about an unrelated situation ;)
