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[–] 9 points 1 month ago (7 children)

Anyone that doesnt agree is welcome to drive the I17/I10 and/or 202/101/60 any time. No one does the speed limit, 5-6 lane highways, wild lane changes and very bad decisions all around. It has made me a worse driver overall.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago (6 children)

    Speed limit is meaningless on freeways

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  • [–] 4 points 1 month ago (5 children)

    In practice sure, cause people just want or need to go faster. In all reality speeding doesnt really get you anywhere faster. 10-20 miles per hour faster on a 1 hour trip isnt netting a lot of time. Speed limits are set based actual science to keep people alive, sometimes they are completely arbitrary though.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 month ago (4 children)

    Freeways are also a lot safer. Just stay in the right couple of lanes and go the speed of traffic. The lifted trucks can go 90 in the carpool lanes.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago (3 children)

    Agree they are safer, technically, youre just more likely to die from a collision on the freeway than street level. Probably because there is no cross traffic.

    I wish staying to the right worked better. On Rt 60 there is a lot of on/off ramp traffic and some want to be in the left lane cut off by the midlane traffic where the right is actually where a lot more accidents happen.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    It's worth bringing up, you're much more likely to get in a collision on the freeway if you're going slower than traffic, compared to faster than traffic.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

    You probably said it correctly, but, collisions on surface streets are less fatal because of cross streets?

    Freeways have much fewer collisions per mile driven by a LOT

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