Happy Monday
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Cruise control so handy.
Set to the speed limit and chill.
If people want to pass that's their problem.
Mind you, in Australia the speed limit is usually followed pretty well.
Not sure about the Hume since I haven't driven it in years, but I regularly do the Western Highway, and WOW the fully loaded B-doubles are aggressive af. You could be going 20kmh about the limit and they're still riding your ass. The only time they slow down is in the towns. There are way too many deaths on that highway.
I have been pretty lucky with the roos not jumping out in front of me, but I've had birds and emus. They are not fun.
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the speed limit is very obviously around 10 mph too low for the road's engineering and surrounding environment
How does that work? Like, even on the broadest highway I could drive 5 mph without my car or the highway taking damage from it?!
It's more so psychology. There's a few videos floating around YouTube by creators like Not Just Bikes that explain the concept, but in short most people are going to drive a speed that is comfortable for them, and that is dependent on the size and design of the road, which means the best way to make people obey the speed limit is to use narrower roads and the best way to make people break it is to design wider straighter roads.
This is what they mean by the speed "speed limit being too low for the street". The speed limit may be an amount but the speed suggested by the street design itself pushes people to go faster -
It's more so psychology. There's a few videos floating around YouTube by creators like Not Just Bikes that explain the concept, but in short most people are going to drive a speed that is comfortable for them, and that is dependent on the size and design of the road, which means the best way to make people obey the speed limit is to use narrower roads and the best way to make people break it is to design wider straighter roads.
This is what they mean by the speed "speed limit being too low for the street". The speed limit may be an amount but the speed suggested by the street design itself pushes people to go fasterFair. Even though I feel like at least 4 out of 5 cars have cruise control (a lot even with distance control) and a speed limiter, so it would be easy to suppress one's psychology. At least that is what I do.
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the speed limit is very obviously around 10 mph too low for the road's engineering and surrounding environment
How does that work? Like, even on the broadest highway I could drive 5 mph without my car or the highway taking damage from it?!
wrote on last edited by [email protected]It's a real thing, road design has an inherent "natural speed" where most drivers feel comfortable, not too quick, not too slow. In the Netherlands if you get a speeding ticket there is a chance that you can successfully argue in court that the road design invited you to drive faster and get the fine annuled. When that happens the government will ask the company responsible for that bit of road to add traffic calming measures like bumps, or obstacles you have to go around that slow you down. Highways are an exception though.
As an addon, those private companies responsible for the roads have to abide by certain design philosophies made by the government, and they are legally responsible for the safety of the roads, if someone dies and it's found to be due to the road design, or its state of maintenance for example, they can be charged massive sums of money.
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the speed limit is very obviously around 10 mph too low for the road's engineering and surrounding environment
How does that work? Like, even on the broadest highway I could drive 5 mph without my car or the highway taking damage from it?!
wrote on last edited by [email protected]Most drivers with experience can tell by how a road is constructed (materials, bank angles on curves, etc.) roughly how fast they can safely go, and there's a subconscious mental tug to get up to that speed. Whether you personally are impacted by that or not, it's a well-known phenomena.
When everyone on the road, most far less thoughtful than yourself, are experiencing that mental tug, traffic moves naturally faster than the posted speed. And then that gives probable cause for our racist police to pick and choose who to fuck up.
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Fair. Even though I feel like at least 4 out of 5 cars have cruise control (a lot even with distance control) and a speed limiter, so it would be easy to suppress one's psychology. At least that is what I do.
In the scenario I described above, congrats, you now stick out like a sore thumb as traffic flows around you, and you need to hope or pray that everyone coming up behind you is alert. Police can pull you for causing a hazard, and plus you just radiate "I have something to hide" energy. Simply driving slower isn't some magic solution when no one else joins you.
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Switzerland is also roughly 238x smaller than the U.S. Closest state would be Maryland, which is small.
Just providing context.
The size doesn't matter when calculating per capita.
To provide even more context: the EU is about double the size of the US and still doesn't have evil police.
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What kind of fast car are you getting for 1000 dollars?
A very rare Hot Wheels
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If your option is tell the truth or be a "bummer" then your only being an ass by lying to save others from reality.
Shit sucks but it never gets better if we hide reality away and never speak of it.
It only takes one right person to be bummed out to start a cascade effect that might create meaningful change. Never murder hope before it has a chance to even be born. Even if that means being a "bummer".
I started reading your comment here and formulating a reply in my head about how I was just limiting the scope of my comment and not lying and telling people to cast off responsibility and let Jesus take the wheel, etc.
But then your third paragraph is SO on point that I withdraw any resistance to your message.
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The size doesn't matter when calculating per capita.
To provide even more context: the EU is about double the size of the US and still doesn't have evil police.
Coughs(bullshit)…
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(TikTok screencap)
Everyone in the comments talking about speeding and I'm here like.... Yeah, that be my day most days.
We've normalized the pain and suffering of modern working life so much that people see this shit and go "oh yeah, speeding is X, y and z" and completely skip over the part where life is a crushing, depressing, and neverending loop of torture.
Yay?
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me even in school zones
dude i am so burnt out
I had to scroll way too far to see a single fucking comment taking about how fucking shit everything is. You're the lucky commenter.
Everyone else talking about the merits (or lack thereof) of speeding, missing the whole point.
I'm with you my friend. This shit is fucking tiring.
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No idea what this is supposed to represent
It's literal rather than representative
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Me with a 30 second commute from my desk to my bed:
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30s commute? You live in a mansion or what?
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30s commute? You live in a mansion or what?
Apartment?
