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Originally Posted by Sylvanfan
No truck nuts.
Where did I say going slightly below the limit in some places is the issue? It's erratic behavior of people blocking traffic and than gunning it full out when someone attempts to pass that is offside. If you want to drive 10 below the limit and suggested speeds and are consistent in that no problem. It's the guy who gets a line of 10 cars going 70 outside Revelstoke than floors it to 135 in the passing lane that's 500 meters who's being dangerous in my view. That's where you get 2 cars at 150 trying to merge back after the lane has ended with oncoming traffic than see that car hammer the brakes back to 75.
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Absurd hyperbole. Nobody's going 70-135-75. It's more like 85-110-90. Which certainly feels annoying, but its costing you WAAAAAAY less time than your brain perceives in the moment.
I suspect a lot of it is also derived from tailgating by following drivers. When being tailgated it is good practice to slow down a bit, to reduce your risk from the jackhole behind you. Now once the passing lane comes there are three possibilities:
1. the lead driver speeds up because now the road feels safer to them
2. the lead driver speeds up because they want to get away from the tailgater
(the non-analytical people who have like a semester and half at Seton Hall and understand highway driving, as a concept)
3. the lead driver speeds up because #### that tailgater
Its ####ing embarrassing that most people accept the tailgater as the lesser of the evils compared to somebody driving a bit under the MAXIMUM speed limit (and yes 99% of the time its just a bit under...y'all have just ####ed your brains for perceived speeds).
Lastly, its not hard to pass these people. You're just as big of a struggler as Gerald up there in his Ford Taurus who likes to spin it up to 110 when the road gets straight. You must be tailgating and losing out to the concertina effect. If you instead back off to a reasonable following distance you get a better view of the road and can build up speed relative to Gerald before you pull out of his slipstream.