Same

I mean, I could afford the ticket, but I'd rather spend that money on LEGO

Hell yes, fellow slow driver! It also saves fuel and car maintenance expenses.

I sold cars for a while. When you sell cars the company’s insurance typically requires the dealer to make sure everyone has a clean recent driving record. That means no speeding or bs of any kind.

Mind you, in Australia the speed limit is usually followed pretty well.

That's because Australia has realistic speed limits. The US doesn't, and thats why people drive over it all the time.

I envy that you have a life where you can use cruise control when you are in your vehicle.

If I am in my vehicle it is usually to go to work, which means crowded highways and people who cut me off or can't maintain their speed worth a damn so if I use cruise control it's only for like 5 seconds before I either have to hit the brakes move into another lane.

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.

But what about the "I'm late for work" mood 😥

I'm a bike commuter and it's this by a lot. I've had assholes swerve into the bike lane because they're salty I'm not traffic like they are, and punish passes are ridiculous. Dude, I'm doing 20 on my ebike, the speed limit is 20, you're an asshole.

I'm a school bus driver and I obey speed limits religiously (and somehow I'm almost alone in this among my coworkers despite the fact that our buses all have GPS monitors installed and our boss can see exactly how fast we're going at all times). Almost every day I have people behind me blasting their horns at me for this. Like, just imagine getting road rage at a fucking school bus driver.

My favorite thing is when they tailgate me, apparently oblivious to the fact that I can't see them at all when they do this, not even in my mirrors.

People react the same way when you don't make a right on red.

So many drivers don’t understand average speed. It’s ridiculous.

It's ridiculous how acceptable people think it is.

I have someone I work with that seems to think the faster he goes the more important and busy he is, therefore he can treat everyone else on the road that follows the rules like they are just retired old geezers with nothing better to do.

It's infuriating. There is nothing I hate more than people with no patience or ability to plan ahead and leave at appropriate times.

I have lived in places where the speed limit is very obviously around 10 mph too low for the road's engineering and surrounding environment, consistently. Consequently, there is truly no one during busy times doing the speed limit.

This gives police the ability to pull over anyone, at their discretion, with direct legal cause (not even the "immune from consequences in practice" kind). Even driving the speed limit creates a hazard and merits intervention according to the law.

The place I'm describing was very racist, driving while black was absolutely unofficially illegal, and this lets cops pick and choose in all the worst ways.

Be deeply suspicious of any law that is routinely broken by everyone for years with no change - it is to allow arbitrary, bigoted enforcement.

Yeah we are not a culture that can have cars safely.

cant think of another

Say 'genocide bad' in public. I dare you.

Had an interesting chat with a chill taxi driver about this. He’d been in the business almost 30 years and says he sees people who don’t adopt this philosophy actually have health issues, and quit.

It's literal rather than representative

It's already pretty self-explanatory, what specifically don't you get?

PSA: Don't open windows on busy roads. Let's in a bunch of pollutants like rubber and metal particles from tires

If it's a place you'd voluntarily have a picnic nearby, feel free to open windows

And open all the windows sometimes!

^ This ... it lets all the pot smoke out, too.

30s commute? You live in a mansion or what?

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.

Bespoke: going the speed of traffic so the irresponsible citizens are also safe

Very obviously wearing their seatbelt

You flubbed the seatbelt & cam hand, but didn't even mention the stupidly low seat that decreases visibility over their dash and, by extension, the hood & front of the vehicle.

Just sayin'. We should all be more aware of this too-often lethal geometry born of "cool" laziness. 🥲

Also no way could they be filming with their left hand, the angle is way off unless they're holding a stick or tripod. It looks like someone in the passenger seat is filming.

Is there a point to all this judgment or..?

Oh no! The economic reality for young people requires them to sell themselves as influencers to make a living because we don't have actual, useful employment any more. Better make sure I cast my judgment on those who found some modicum of success doing so, so that the world and I know that I'm better than them! /s

They are filming/photographing with their right hand. The image is flipped. Or they are in the most American-looking town in England.

How to scroll way too far down to find this comment. ITT everyone is British

I'm always afraid of getting rear ended if I get stuck behind someone. All it takes is two people late on the brakes to ruin my life. But of course I'll try to plan ahead and pass safely instead of losing my mind.

I'm not responsible for other people's anger issues. As long as people take this stance we will remain in the endless shitty cycle of people feeling like they have a good given right to drive 10+ over on any road, be it an interstate highway or a residential road where kids are playing.

Just keep right and you can drive as slow as you want. People start doing crazy shit when they have to weave in and out of slower drivers who are in the left lanes but not passing.

Others moved pounds across many miles, and did nothing at all to stand out.

Still others drove school busses, and it was beaten into them while under cacophonous duress.

A few did both.

good luck doing that on British roads

edit: also, there isn't a single road I can think of within hours of me where you cannot drive above the speed limit in regular conditions, excepting intersections. it's just bad road design