For those that are curious, this dude is not joking.If you were doing 100 in a posted 75 zone on the interstate your fine would be $40 in North Dakota.
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Do not tailgate. some bridges will have white lines on the road so they can check the distance between cars, it can be costly.
There is usually no beating the tickets, you are on camera and your face is clear.
I got a lowly Peugeot 308 up to about 200 kph (120ish mph) and I was truly frightened that it was going to disintegrate. It was absolutely a white knuckle event.
The fleets of Mercedes were passing me like I was standing still.
And oh, by the way, ALWAYS stay in the right lane unless you're passing. You will cause an accident.
The fleets of Mercedes were passing me like I was standing still.
And oh, by the way, ALWAYS stay in the right lane unless you're passing. You will cause an accident.
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Don't worry, soon we'll all be "driving" fully electric, fully autonomous vehicles.
Seems like the latest group of new drivers think the speed limit is the minimum speed.
Hasn't the standard always been 10 over?
Here in Colorado the posted speed limit is taken as a suggestion.
Parts of I25 and I70 90 MPH+ is not uncommon.
Parts of I25 and I70 90 MPH+ is not uncommon.
Ha. Almost two decades ago I read an interview of a guy in the US who was trying to get BMW to understand how Americans drive. The issue had something to do with speed but I don't remember exactly what it was. It might have been engines being offered in the US since the max speed limit at the time was 55 mph. In any case this individual took the BMW execs for some drives out on the highway and needless to say even in the 1980's people weren't adhering to the speed limits.
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I regularly drive 100mph+ on 95 and 93 when traffic allows for it, many others go 80-90+ as well. Here in eastern Massachusetts most highways are 55-65mph posted speeds, but nobody does that, and the police generally leave you alone if you're going 75-80 and not driving like a **** head.
I was in Germany for a couple weeks last fall and I can confirm that you MUST have lane discipline. And you MUST be paying attention. Trucks and vehicles with trailers are limited to 80-90km/h, and everyone else can drive as fast as they want. This means you have to constantly be dealing with moving to the left lane to pass slow trucks, and then IMMEDIATELY get back in the right lane to clear the way for the Mercedes S-class doing 200+ who will be on your ass before you even know it. It's a unique experience being flat out foot to the floor with a 1.0T at about 185km/h and a BMW or Mercedes is on you like white on rice before you can even blink.
Of course it's not always like that. I drove from Niedersachsen back to Frankfurt to fly home (because after the nightmare I had when we got there I didn't trust Deutsche Bahn to get us back to the airport on time) and it was a pretty relaxing 3 1/2 hour drive. Set the cruise at 130km/h. The biggest issue was constant construction zones. As different as things can be between the US and Germany some things are the same everywhere.
Actually one thing I did like was the car had sign recognition so it would show you the current speed limit (or no speed limit as shown in this picture at the top center of the display)
Depends , my wife got clocked so 102 in a 55MPH during Covid shutdown. The state trooper saw her hospital badge and scrubs and some of gear and said have a good day at work. My mum is there .
How does the accent fair with triple digits
We drove from Zurich to Rome and back in an Alfa Romeo a couple years ago. I kept it under 150 kph since it had snow tires on. Was passed by little white service vans all the time going top speed. The lane discipline was amazing. All the trucks stayed right. It was so peaceful.
Sure is.
Much of Interstate 95 in Florida moves quite fast. Just did the drive again today and 90 seems to be daytime left lane normal for a significant group of motorists. Those that go slower in the left lane sometimes get harassed, despite the fact that they are already going 10 over. I saw one older man who refused to move over, get an entire case of water bottles thrown at his car. Of course, not one of them hit. Both drivers kept moving right along! How strange.
I'm a courteous fast driver. When the opportunity arises, I like to get movin.
I'm a courteous fast driver. When the opportunity arises, I like to get movin.
C-470 is the same way.
Ohio? Wasn't there used to be a running joke about Ohio speed traps in Car&Driver and/or Road&Track? The letter section always used to have few of the choice ones from Officer Bob Speed of Ohio State Polic.
Which is totally bogus because I got that ticket in Ohio for going the speed limit in the rain. I was coming into a town in a rain storm. I saw the speed limit sign, and I saw the officer attempting to hide. I did the speed limit on the highway to within feet of the lowered speed limit sign at the town limit, where I promptly brought my car down to the proper speed. The cop must have been drooling at the idea of giving me a ticket and must have peed in his cheerios when I was right at the limit at the sign, so he gave me the bogus ticket. It didn't help I was out of state, in a Nissan Spec-V, and just out of college at the time. He must have been super happy to stand in the pouring rain to give me that ticket.
It makes me sad to hear that. I was hoping European drivers were more disciplined about "drive on the right, pass on the left".
Although we have no clever nickname for it, we have the same problem, of everyone driving in the middle lane, so they can avoid having to change lanes to pass the trucks. This practice effectively reduces the capacity of the highway, by making the right lane a very limited use lane.
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