Happy Monday

I drive like an old bitch.

I ain't got ticket money. You'll find me in the right lane. Running the speed limit. Like an old bitch.

Same
I mean, I could afford the ticket, but I'd rather spend that money on LEGO
- Friend of mine just told me about a new 9000 piece death star. Gonna cost like $1000.
  He's already planning for it around his yearly bonus at work.
- This should be a bumper sticker
- Hmmm, sitting quietly, assembling a child's toy from an instruction sheet and spending $1000 for the privilege, or driving a fast car...
  Wow that's a tough one!
  Edit: oh yummy down votes, they taste so good, tears of the manchild!
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.
- Ok? 🙃

Driving the speed limit at all times regardless of mood. Because I value my safety as well as the one of others.

But what about the "I'm late for work" mood 😥
- the few minutes speeding saves you wont do any meaningful difference
- Don't leave late. Lobby your politicians for sensible transport infrastructure (i.e. not just cars)
  There is no excuse, but people normalise the hell out of it

normalize avoiding vehicular homicide

It's disturbing how normalized speeding is. It goes beyond normalization. I've had people get furious with me, flip me off, tailgate me aggressively and literally try to run me off the road for driving the speed limit.

It's especially stupid in the city. People get all pissed at me for driving the speed limit and maneuver recklessly around me before speeding off, only to get stuck at the red light a block ahead. I could feel smug as I pulled up beside them a moment later, that is if it weren't for the disappointment and frustration I feel with how stupid people are behind the wheel of these speeding death machines.

I can't think of any other law we have where a significant proportion of society seems to be actively hostile towards those who care to abide. Why do we accept this as a society?

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.
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'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.
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.
- 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?!
Yeah we are not a culture that can have cars safely.
cant think of another
Say 'genocide bad' in public. I dare you.
- Say 'genocide bad' in public. I dare you.
  They will agree with you but say that what’s happening in Palestine isn’t a genocide
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.

Me using my phone on the bus after a hard day, knowing I don’t have to pay attention to shit on the road: 😌

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.

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 dunno man, 80+ mph on the highway doesn't seem particularly necessary.
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.
- Yes I'm lucky to live in a rural area. I can't always use it as there are hills on some of the roads, and the cruise control will downshift and cane it up the hills which feels mean, but the main highway is mostly fine.
  I've never had a car with adaptive cruise control though, which it sounds like you would need. (Follow the speed of the car in front.)
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.
- I just pull off and let them go, but here in the New England they seem to be speed limited and rarely get above 105 so generally it's only speed limited roadwork zones that they get hyper.
  I prefer to sit on about 85 as I'm a bit older, and it saves a fair bit on fuel, but will do 100 if someone comes up behind and I can't duck off. Just have to be a little more alert at that speed, watching for potholes etc. Watched too many avch videos hehe.

it’s been a hard day making TikTok posts so I’m gonna drive around in my luxury car ~~without my seatbelt on~~ and film with my left hand and maybe probably not hit anyone while I check if the angle looks good

Very obviously wearing their seatbelt
- Good call, I missed the grey on grey seatbelt. Edited my comment
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.
They are filming/photographing with their right hand. The image is flipped. Or they are in the most American-looking town in England.
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
- I don’t care what anybody does to make money unless it puts someone else at risk. A car is a method of transportation, but more importantly, a weapon. Focusing on getting the right angle or right clip or whatever for your meme puts other people at risk as you control a 5500 pound piece of metal. My criticism is on the choice of using a moving vehicle as a recording studio.

Me with a 30 second commute from my desk to my bed:

:( -> :)

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

"when things are so bad you start obeying traffic laws as if you give a shit whether or not you'd kill some kid today."

Broke: driving the speed limit because you are tired.

Woke: driving the speed limit because you are a responsible citizen who wants to make the roads safer.

Bespoke: going the speed of traffic so the irresponsible citizens are also safe
- Coke: Running the speed limit.

One crime at a time, save that crime for something good

I've been driving Uber for awhile and I adopted grandma driving for my own sanity/safety.

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.

At least where I'm at, I think it's more dangerous to drive the speed limit on the highway than to go 10 over, just because of other drivers. Driving the speed limit makes many other drivers lose their goddamn minds and drive insanely unsafely just to get around me. It's wild the things people will do just to get to their destination a minute or two faster.

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.
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 wish people wouldn’t do this. Even in the pouring rain with low visibility you’ll have some absolute bellend think it’s appropriate to be less than a car length behind you when you have nowhere to go and I’m sure as shit not going to drive unsafely just so they can get home 2 mins sooner. Wankers.
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.

No idea what this is supposed to represent

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

On one hand, I think speeding is wrong, but on the other am I happy that these people help finance police operations.

(If you drive over the limit in Switzerland, you will get caught and you will pay and also the police are not evil (at least from what I've heard))

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.

And on the wrong side of the car.

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

I had such a rough day at work one day I drove across three states only to eat at a waffle house then turn around to drive back home.

Sometimes calm driving can lead to a calm mind.

And open all the windows sometimes!

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
- Yeah I wanted to say something specific about not doing it in the city center, or do it when you're driving past fields and trees. But I kept thinking of bumming out all the folks that probably don't have such a resource available.
  It's just one of those things I am lucky to have available, so I intentionally make use of it. I don't even have to work in the office every day, but it's a nice office and my very short commute has the option of being about 2/3 on a twisty country road. So it helps get me out of the house and/or awake sometimes.
  Oh and back to your PSA: if you are in heavy traffic and exhaust is an even bigger issue than debris particles, remember the air recirculate function on your AC.
And open all the windows sometimes!
^ This ... it lets all the pot smoke out, too.

It's not possible in BMW

Many days lately have been like this.

Speed limit of the street or speed limit of the car?

What's the hurry? I left early, and sometimes I just like the quiet. These are signs of success not defeat.

me even in school zones :P

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.

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?

So you mean m-f then? Music is a luxury best reserved for weekends, that way I know work won't interrupt my jam sesh

Oh yeah, otherwise don't hesitate to go faster than the speed limit and male a bit of noise with your sports car, cuz it impresses everyone.

I also drive home at the speed limit after getting some a$$.

It do be like that sometimes

Me when I'm unwilling to lane change once on the freeway.

Hey some of us sold cars and just drive the speed limit because we forgot how to speed.

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.

Drive the speed limit at all times.

Else you'll get a very hands-on introduction to the concepts of centrifugal force and static friction.

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