It Has Taken Me A While...

[liralen]

... but I finally realize that there are those of us who believe that The Speed Limit is the fastest one should go and there are those of us who believe that the speed limit is the *minimum* one should start at and then think about just how much faster one should really be going in order to stay out of other people's way and still not trip any alarms on the radar gun aimed in my general direction.

I am, if you hadn't already guessed, of the latter sort. Having learned how to drive in LA, I was doomed from the start.

When we move from the plain states I am going to dearly miss the freeways with 75 mph (120 km/h) speed limits where the mean traffic speed is around 80 and there are enough folks going 90 (145 km/h) to be good state patrol bait for when I do want to make a real run for it...

Comments

autobahn

[anitar.livejournal.com]

Jack really enjoyed the part of our European trip where we were driving from Vienna to Graz and (five days later) back again. Fast!

Re: autobahn

[liralen.livejournal.com]

Wheeee!!!

[archangelbeth]

I'm sort of in the middle. The speed limit is the minimum in decent weather, but the maximum varies from 5mph above to 15 above, depending on area.

And how much someone is tailgating me.

[agrimony.livejournal.com]

My desire to be very strict about speed limits, I have found, hinges very much on how close the jerkhead behind me is riding my tail. The closer he is, the slower I want to go... just to be a pain. :)

[liralen.livejournal.com]

*laughter*

Hm... I'll admit I have the same feelings.

I don't like tailgating or tailgaters.

But sometimes I'll admit to the urge when I'm LATE and I know it's my fault but... damnit!!!

[jilara.livejournal.com]

You've hit on why I only like driving Highway 1 late at night. I just can't do it at under 35, and some stretches are definitely good for 70. But you have to make sure you don't have nervous passengers with problems with cliffs...

[liralen.livejournal.com]

Exactly.

*happy sigh* Carl let me drive a rental BMW on the 17 from Santa Cruz and it was definitely a wheeeeeeeee!! experience.

[outintexas.livejournal.com]

I started out driving life as the former.

I have ended up as the latter.

I'm not sure when or how the transition happened.

[liralen.livejournal.com]

You're in TEXAS, man.

It's those plain states. *grin*