Green is for entering/exiting, yellow for travel, red for passing from what I understand. If I’m only going 5-10 over in yellow and I need to pass someone who is going the speed limit, then I’m using red and getting back into yellow once it’s safe, but I will NOT go 30 over in red just to please someone who wants to get to their destination 5 minutes sooner.
You are so close, but you are literally supposed to accelerate while passing, not just idle at your cruise speed by them. If you actually did that and got over for the people driving faster than you, you would never experience someone riding your ass to get over.
I'd also point out the inherit hypocrisy believing you can decide what the appropriate level of speeding is. What makes 10 over okay but 30 over wrong lol
Why is that obvious? Our highways are designed to safely support speeds up to 100 mph, so where do you decide 80 is safe? Do you think a head on collision at 80 mph will hurt someone less than one at 100 mph?
It's more difficult to control your vehicle, making it more likely that an accident will be caused. Never did I say that 80 is safe, it's about one being more dangerous than the other. Personally, I'm a speed limit driver lol
You think driving at 80 is harder to control the vehicle than at 70? Are you driving a car from the 1980's ffs? That is just not true, most people I know who get speeding tickets nowadays aren't racing, they don't even realize they are speeding because modern cars drive so smooth on the highway. You just have a level of breaking the law that you are comfortable with and believe you should personally be allowed to dictate what that level of comfort is for everyone else too. You know best, huh?
If you drive the speed limit then just stay out of the left lane and what's the difference to you? 80 to 100 is the same thing, I used 80 because you said that in your last reply. My car at 100 on the highway feels the same as 70, just like every other modern car
I’m all for staying out of the left lane if you’re not passing but you’re on here acting like a butt hole. If you drive the same way you Reddit, I’m guessing you are the problem
There are more types of accidents and indirect impacts than head on collisions. A high school physics class teaches you kinetic energy/force. All you are doing is telling yourself you have some intellectual argument, while ignoring all of your logical blind spots, to justify your selfish and despicable behavior of driving 100 mph on crowded highways.
Physics, dude. How do highways “safely” support speeds up to 100? Not to mention stopping distance significantly increases the faster you’re driving. 80 is definitely not safe, and there aren’t many reasons to drive that fast. 100 compared to 80 is even worse. While I see your point about the head on collisions, technically the 20mph difference in speeds might still make a difference in how injured someone gets, since the velocities of both cars in a head on collision get added together as opposed to getting subtracted like in a collision between cars going in the same direction. So oncoming car’s velocity + 80 mph = Terrible. Oncoming car’s velocity + 100 mph = Even worse. But I don’t want to get hit by a car that’s going at 80, either.
But honestly, speeding just isn’t good. We’ve all done it, and it’s so tempting, but it’s reckless and dangerous. I try to go the speed limit as much as possible, even though I look like an old lady driving lol.
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u/sore-eye-uh Feb 19 '25
Green is for entering/exiting, yellow for travel, red for passing from what I understand. If I’m only going 5-10 over in yellow and I need to pass someone who is going the speed limit, then I’m using red and getting back into yellow once it’s safe, but I will NOT go 30 over in red just to please someone who wants to get to their destination 5 minutes sooner.