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Originally Posted by Enoch Root
Why do people think that slower is more relaxing?
I find it more stressful to drive slowly and have cars pass me or tail me than it is to drive a little faster and approach traffic myself.
I have had this conversation with my mother in law a thousand times - she finds driving stressful so she slows down more, causing more vehicles to pass her and pressure her. If she would just go a little faster, driving would be easier and less stressful.
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God, people like your mother in law need to lose their licence. If you get nervous driving in anything but terrible road conditions (where nerves are a good thing) then you shouldn't be driving. If you feel "pressured" and get anxious while simply crusing the speed limit then simply don't drive.
I'll take the guy going 140 over the scared driver going 90 and driving erratically any day of the week. At least the guy going 140 is predictable. You know hes going to weave through gaps in traffic to get ahead of whatever idiot is clogging up the left lane. You have no idea what the spooked driver is going to do. I've seen some ridiculous things happen when bad drivers get scared.
Also not all speed limits are equal. Most confident drivers drive what ever they feel is safe or whatever their acceptable speeding ticket risk is, which ever is lower. 100 on the windy bits on Deerfoot? Yeah I can buy it. Probably won't see me going much faster than 120 if its wide open and no issue doing the speed limit in traffic. 100 on Stony? Go #### Yourself. That road should have no speed limit damn it. Put a barrier in the median and get rid of all speed limits on that road. Its completely straight, exits are sparse and there's nothing around it. I'd go 300 km/h if i had a car capable of it. If the Germans can do it, why are the drivers in this country so incapable of doing it? The unrestricted parts of the Autobahn are a lot more windy and narrow and busy then Stony, yet they can pull it off.