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Originally Posted by calumniate
Nice, people defending going 40 over to save five minutes on a ten hour trip. Enjoy the bus!
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I understand your point, but when you use such flawed math it really takes away from what you are trying to say.
On a 10 hour trip; let's call it 900 km at 90km/h. That would be 10 hours. At 130 km/h, that same trip would take you just under 7 hours. So it wouldn't save you 5 minutes, it would save you 3 full hours.
However this story isn't about somebody trying to shave hours off their trip, it was about somebody trying to pass another vehicle. The roads department spend a lot of money to try and make passing safer, why are the police not doing something about the people creating the road hazzards that others are trying to pass?
And yes, somebody who is unable to maintain their speed due to limited driving ability is a hazzard on the road. I'm not talking about the guy pulling a trailer or a transport truck driver; most of those people will allow people to pass on a passing lane. I'm talking about the guy who was afraid to overtake another slow person on a 2 lane passing zone, or somebody who had to slow down to go around gentle curves. (Ones not marked with a speed reduction.) Those are the ones who try to "make up time" by speeding up in that nice long straight section.
And ironically it is those people who speed up during the 2 km passing zone are the ones worthy of your scorn, as speeding up during those 2 km will only shave seconds off their trip.