If I catch up to someone who does that to me, they get a very loud and stern talking to at the next stoplight. No swearing, Just a Parent/child correction. That pass blocking move equates to "you are trying to kill me". A passenger of the offending car video'd me on their phone confronting the driver . I am sure I am on YouTube somewhere.
Do you "flash" to warn of police patrol ahead? Speeding content and rant.
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It isn't worth interacting with people like that, too much risk of them being a psycho and running you over or shooting you.
I don't speed too much, usually 5-10 over in areas where appropriate, and to keep up with traffic. If I come up behind someone doing the speed limit then whatever, not worth stressing over. My biggest issue seems to be the people who are not paying attention. Erratically hitting the brakes, can't decide if they want to do 25 or 55 on a 45 mph limit road, weaving over the line, etc. They are usually texting, or holding their phone and yelling into it while driving (never heard of bluetooth or headphones maybe?). These people I will pass as soon as safe to do so and distance myself as far from them as possible.
My old State Drivers manual instructs to 'move with and do not impede traffic flow. ' It also states to "pass quickly and get back into your lane as soon as you are clear the vehicle you are passing.'
Then there is the unwritten law of the "Rush Hour." Our major Interstate south into the city of Boston has a posted speed of 65MPH. The two Thru Traffic lanes typically move at 80 >85MPH during rush hour. I have not seen enforcement of the limit at this time of day. Plus the multiple crashes occurring these days seem to keep the State cops occupied. The highway is greatly inadequate and undersized for the traffic volume in this new century. You have to increase speed to get the "gallonage" of vehicles through to destination.
Population DOUBLED in the U.S. since I was born and increased 50% since High School.
Worked more than one case like this where guns came out.
Happening more and more each day. Luckily it was only a phone pointed at me. If you don't correct bad behavior it continues. I have a 1911 Commander, but I try not to bring it with me; Constitutional, permitless carry State.
I am also 6'1' - 240lbs. No swearing, no demeaning. I Just tell them firmly what they did is dangerous and Illegal, and if they do it again they will be arrested.
Yep.
In Texas, one has to assume that the other guy has a gun in their vehicle. I do. If the other guy pulls their gun on me I will be forced to shoot him. I am not about to get involved in a road rage incident. If someone in the right lane speeds-up to prevent me from passing I will just slow down and move over behind him.
Im not discussing traffic lines. Im simply stating states regulate the sale of products in their state. BTW any state can pain any line they want on their roadways but they will forfeit any and all federal funding.
Doesnt matter a 1967 law they were already doing it or going to do it. It was a procedure and the fact is simply, they do it.
California and other states regulate what they see fit. As long as it does not conflict with federal law, meaning they can imprrove on federal law such as in CA emission limits on automobiles, lawnmowers, motorcycles, string trimmers, blowers and not only emissions but noise. They just cant removed the limits imposed by the Feds if they want federal funding.
CA requires special warnings on every cancer and possible cancer causing substance in the world and why almost everything you buy is listed as a known possible cancer causing agent as required by the state of CA
All states regulate whether seat belts need to be worn and also regulate child seats.
Even more recently CA banned the sale of Plasma TVs over a decade ago
https://washingtoncitypaper.com/article/477576/california-bans-plasma-tvs-could-it-happen-to-us/
You do know CA has banned the sale of gasoline vehicles starting in 2035 not the Feds.
CA just again tightened up boat emission rules
https://www.northbaybusinessjournal...-impose-wave-of-boat-emissions-rules-in-2022/
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Ok, let's say that Virginia decided to mandate an 85MPH speed limiter on all vehicles sold in the state. And it somehow didn't violate any Federal regulations.
What sort of problems might that cause?
1)The auto manufacturer now has to make a special version just for Virginia.
2)Unsold vehicles can't be transferred from, say, a Maryland dealer to a Virginia dealer..
3)These vehicles that can't go over 85MPH are worth less in the used market when sold in other states. (Isn't there an 80MPH speed limit in Texas?)
4)What about people who buy a vehicle from out of state? How would that work?
The reason it isn't done, aside from any Federal regulations it might violate, is that it's a stupid idea with a lot of drawbacks. It might prompt some lawsuits too (I think it might be a violation of the Interstate Commerce Clause, for example--see problem #2).
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It's causes no different problems that the state of CA causes on a multitude of products. Including automobile emissions for the last 5 decades. Im not advocating anything.
Just put it in context. People like to rant and rave about enforcement, as long as it's not them. The public response to speed cameras and stop light cameras was extremely negative, now in some places slowly being accepted.
If people wanted to actually enforce any law, the technology is available. Plan and simple, EVEN from the Feds and certainly on a state level. It's easy as heck to limit the speed of automobiles. Maybe some already are but at insane speeds, motorcycle makers limit speeds too, at much higher than posted speed limits though.
It's nothing more than software, in CA case of auto emissions of the last 5 decades is was 1000 times more complicated as it was physical/mechanical items that had to be built into vechicles. Limiting speed is nothing more than a vehicles computer firmware. Changeable in literally minutes by plugging into the vehicle data port and in Tesla case, over the air update.
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That is mainly because the state of CA was given the power to create their own environmental regulations.
Notice the trend of states losing residents to southern states? No politics allowed its just fact, 10 of thousands of regulations smothering business, families in excessive costs.
"Besides New York, other states that follow California’s rule include Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont and Washington. Several other states are moving to adopt the California standard."
https://www.ttnews.com/articles/californias-power-set-auto-emissions-rules-restored-0
Plus what I want to go to the track with my car?
Virginia is losing population.
Virginia has adopted some of California's regulations, including the phase-out of ICE vehicles.
Fill out Form VA-1320, submit it with your $500 application fee to the Virginia DMV via postal mail at least 6 months before your scheduled track day, give the date, time, duration and track location, and, if permission is granted, your speed limiter will be electronically re-programmed to deactivate on the given date and time for the given duration as long as you are within 1 mile of the track location.
I did learn some things I forgot about CA emissions that the past President struck down. You were correct on the Fed approval.
Still no emissions testing except for NOVA here which is good.
Richmond politicians would *never* adopt the part of California regulations that mandates statewide emissions testing.
If it worked the way I suspected, emissions testing in Northern Virginia was implemented to avoid having to implement any regulations elsewhere in the state.
I really hope using the term *never* when talking about something a politician would or wouldn't do was just sarcasm?!?!?
No, it wasn't sarcasm.
all the idiot foreign google engineers that have moved to the Austin area would have no idea why they're flashing them. I gave up on this a while back.
