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Originally Posted by powderjunkie
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.
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I get where you’re coming from but I have been behind people going a legitimate 25-30 below the speed limit.
To add to that, in searching for some stats on impeding traffic, I came across article out of Regina where police were talking about impeding traffic, and noted instances where someone was going 73 in a 100 and 20 in a 50.
These things can and do happen, and they are illegal.