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    Yeah, honking at me. And those flashing lights on the roof of their car are really annoying.

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      70 in a 50 zone. Doesn't matter if its km/h or mph, that's just idiotic.

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        Have you ever slipped and accidentally honked at someone?

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          70 in a 50 zone. Doesn't matter if its km/h or mph, that's just idiotic.

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          exactly, the engineers should never have made a road with that big of a discrepancy between safe speed and listed speed limit

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            Have you ever slipped and accidentally honked at someone?

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            How is that even possible?

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              exactly, the engineers should never have made a road with that big of a discrepancy between safe speed and listed speed limit

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              The engineers only make the designed safe speed. Government officials make the listed limit. It used to be EXTREMELY popular for government official to knock 20-25% off the design limit of the road, ironically so they can tell everyone how safe they were.

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                1. Escalates the angry driver situation.
                2. Takes photos while driving.

                Neither driver here is in the right.

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                  70 in a 50 zone. Doesn't matter if its km/h or mph, that's just idiotic.

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                  I disagree. There are two roads near me with a limit of 55 mph, and traffic on those roads regularly moves at 75-80. Driving 55 becomes dangerous when all of the other traffic is going so much faster, because nobody expects you to be that slow. You risk getting rear-ended, and if traffic is heavy, people who end up behind you now have to merge into a much faster lane of traffic to get around you.

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                    I disagree. There are two roads near me with a limit of 55 mph, and traffic on those roads regularly moves at 75-80. Driving 55 becomes dangerous when all of the other traffic is going so much faster, because nobody expects you to be that slow. You risk getting rear-ended, and if traffic is heavy, people who end up behind you now have to merge into a much faster lane of traffic to get around you.

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                    Why don't they confiscate driving licences and imprison all the criminals who are driving 20-25mph dangerously over the limit?

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                      Why don't they confiscate driving licences and imprison all the criminals who are driving 20-25mph dangerously over the limit?

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                      You ever tried to pull over an entire freeway full of cars at once?

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                        You ever tried to pull over an entire freeway full of cars at once?

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                        A single cop car on the side of the road can get everybody to magically follow the speed limit.

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                          A single cop car on the side of the road can get everybody to magically follow the speed limit.

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                          That's really dependant on location. I have had plenty of road trips up and down the I5 where groups of cars pass cops on the side of the road going 80, and no one slows down and the cops do nothing.
                          Source: I'm one of those drivers.

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                            The engineers only make the designed safe speed. Government officials make the listed limit. It used to be EXTREMELY popular for government official to knock 20-25% off the design limit of the road, ironically so they can tell everyone how safe they were.

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                            Everywhere in my town was 25mph until about 10 years ago.

                            A local politician got a few speeding tickets and went nuts over it, now it varies from 25-60mph. Engineers were brought in to advise on safe limits.

                            Him getting those tickets was one of the best things that ever happened to me. It was so miserable driving so slow on big open roads. I could probably sit down and figure up an insane amount of time I’ve saved over the last decade (if I weren’t an idiot).

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                              1. Escalates the angry driver situation.
                              2. Takes photos while driving.

                              Neither driver here is in the right.

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                              going 70 in a 50

                              Both drivers deserve to lose their license

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                                  Only time I've been close to road rage was when a Mercedes CL had a really bright LED strobe light installed inside it's front grill and he activating it, if somebody was in his way.

                                  It wasn't a cop or other emergency vehicle. Just an asshole.

                                  I was lucky to be in front of him for 15 minutes when traffic got compacted enough to prevent lane change.

                                  For a moment I considered hitting the brakes on that particular tailgater.

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                                    1000001705

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                                      Using phone while driving... Great.

                                      Fuck everyone who ever touches their phone while the vehicle is on. This shit is not okay, ever.

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                                        Using phone while driving... Great.

                                        Fuck everyone who ever touches their phone while the vehicle is on. This shit is not okay, ever.

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                                        1. The phone is clearly mounted on the dashboard.

                                        2. It's not uncommon for people to record their whole trip for social media, not just take to a picture.

                                        3. This caption could have been pasted over a completely unrelated screenshot of someone else's video for all we know.

                                        Don't touch your phone while driving, but also, don't believe everything you see on social media.

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                                          1. The phone is clearly mounted on the dashboard.

                                          2. It's not uncommon for people to record their whole trip for social media, not just take to a picture.

                                          3. This caption could have been pasted over a completely unrelated screenshot of someone else's video for all we know.

                                          Don't touch your phone while driving, but also, don't believe everything you see on social media.

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                                          On your last point... It's still damaging because it normalises it. UK has very harsh stance on this and you'd get in shit even for point 1. There should be zero tolerance on this. They're a dickhead driver regardless. Two dickheads don't make it right.

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