Posted on 04/04/2005 11:07:55 AM PDT by KidGlock
Regarding your #102, please read #65. It seems that it was also written for you.
Left laners are who the HP are looking for. To make the best time, drive in the right, promptly pass, then return to the right lane. Cops these days rarely run radar continuously (except in small towns) and can't really tell how fast you're going if you are in a string of cars in the right lane and they are coming toward you. If you are by yourself in the left lane, plan on getting bliped.
So you just sort of change lanes and go the same speed as them for a while and then floor it past them?
Driving an S across the highway would sure get your attention! I guess that would be the best way to slow traffic with only one cruiser. I live in IN and I have never seen them do it here, not in any form. Why they don't is beyond me.
Here in GA, it is *illegal* for a cop who is not a GA Highway Patrol, to pull someone over for speeding, for less than 10 over, except in school zones, construction zones, and a few similar exceptions.
I think this law was passed in response to all the bad publicity Georgia got from speed trap towns like Ludowici, some years ago.
Needless to say, your chances of getting pulled by a GA Highway Patrol for less than 10 over, are pretty much nil. So effectively, speed limits are 10mph over what's posted.
That is how I see all speed limits. Just over a year ago I was pulled over by a state trooper on a stretch of four lane highway called the Maple valley Hiway. It is a 50 MPH zone and I set my cruise to 57. I know my speedometer is very accurate at that speed (using those roadside radar speed signs the cities put up from time to time). He tried to tell my I was doing 61. I told him in no uncertain terms that it was bs. I told him exactly what I was doing, including where I had the cruise set.
His response was to not set my cruise control over the speed limit and he sent me on my way, free an clear.
Left lane nannies haven't got a clue how things actually work.
LOL. Gawd...don't even get me started on that.
Yes, I noticed in the UK that the fast lane was only used for passing as well - I wasn't sure if it was the law or only a simple common courtesy - well now you've cleared that up. Another interesting thing I noticed - back in the mid 90s I remember there being many speed cameras and posted limits along some of the motorways but by '99 it appeared they'd been reduced. Was there in fact a relaxation of speed limits on the better motorways?
That's been my experience as well. I've never gotten popped for speeding except once. I was at least 15 over. Usually, I'll hang between the limit and 10 over, driving as far to the right as I can (sort of resembling my political life, LOL...).
Wisconsin still is for FIBS (aka driving w/ Illinois plates) the worst. Add 150 $ to the ticket automatically if there is an Illinois address. Fines get higher the further north you go , with an additional 50$ tacked on for having a Bears sticker on the car.
Made it to Lake County IN from Mpls in 6 hours 30 minutes recently.
I remember hitting a couple of web sites last year that showed pictures where people had draped old tires over them and lit them. Lots of them...
The left lane is for DPS cruisers to drive 50 mph getting ready to hit the brakes and do a u-turn in the median.
More accidents take place daily on entrance ramps because of tail-gating than other form of accident. 2 feet off the bumper ahead of them they look back over their shoulder to check traffic and wham!, run right into the guy's trunk because unbeknownst to them, he stopped!!!
It makes me crazy when (and I've seen a lot of this), the driver in front of you on a curvy, hilly TWO-LANE plods along at 50mph, until you finally reach a straightaway with no oncoming traffic.
Then he'll jack it up to 70 as you try to get around him (or her).
Once, many years ago (I was young and brave), I simply hit my right turn signal and started pulling back into the right lane, even though we were side-by-side, since there was an oncoming semi.
At that point, I didn't care if he swerved off the road and sailed over a cliff.
Oooh, I like the civil disobedience implicit in that. Maybe there's hope for our brothers across the pond, yet.
I'm writing a letter to the Utah State Legislature tomorrow!
It's called polite roadway behavior. Please catch a clue. If you are slower than the guy coming up behind you, GET OUT OF THE F%^&ING WAY.
In the meantime, enjoy the drive :)
I call that "zoning"
I can remember many long trips where I would "snap" out of it and be 50 miles down the road. I wasn't unconcious and would have stopped if needed but definitely would not have responded quickly in an emergency.
I don't drive like this anymore.
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