It’s so dangerous when the passenger tries to pressure the driver to go. If they thought it was safe they would have gone. If they decide to listen to the passenger instead of their own judgement, they are way more likely to get into an accident. Even if the advice itself is good they might take too long to process it or misunderstand. Like “Take a right, now!” then they drive up onto the curb ten feet before the turn.
Also, if the driver is making mistakes out of nervousness, yelling at them makes it worse every time. My passenger yells anything they can walk the rest of the way.
Especially when the driver is a cartoon Martian
There’s a nice little app on F-Droid called Speedr.
Edit: Not seeing it there anymore, but found the github for it: https://github.com/jakehilborn/speedr
It checks your speed against what open street map has set as the speed limit for the road. It will record how often, how long, how much you drove over the speed limit during your drive.
It will then use that data to estimate the amount of time you actually saved.
I regularly drive ~15 mph over the speed limit to keep up with traffic. Do a long drive of more than eight hours at a time around every other month. In a year I saved under 20 minutes.
Maybe a more aggressive driver could get more savings, but as far as I’m concerned I’ll just leave a little earlier.
Edit: Also, not sure that math adds up. Going off of my memory from a few years ago.
That math ain’t mathing.
Assuming a “long drive” is at least 200 miles and most of the trip is on a highway without a lot of slow spots, you should save much more than 20 minutes a year regularly going 15 mph over.
With a lower highway speed limit of 60 mph, going 15 over will put you at 75 mph. In an hour, you’re 15 miles further down the road going 75 than 60 and it will take you 15 more minutes going 60 to get to that same spot.
Specific conditions will change the numbers, obviously. I’d consider both a few hundred mile drive and driving through NYC during rush hour to be long drives and they’ll have vastly different stats. By all means leave earlier but that Speedr app seems like it’s mathing wrong.
If you hesitate, wait.
Everybody just wants to get where they’re going safely. If you’re always behind slow drivers you need to leave a little earlier because if your schedule is that tight any little thing is going to make you late.
This is why I just let my wife drive. She’ll run the light at the last second if she can while I never will, and it’s less frustrating for both of us to just let her handle it.
Most people die between 40-60.
Speeding isn’t dangerous. The ability to make smart decisions about when to speed is.
I think you mean, the inability.
No, plenty of people have the ability. It’s a mix.
I think they meant disability.
Most people die between 40-60
According to what study?
Self driving cars will be so much fun if they become the norm
if cars drove under the speed limit and not over all the time. there would have been plenty of time to go. speeding is inconsiderate to other users and makes everyones travel worse
There’s a lady that goes 30km under the speed limit on the highway during rush hour. In front of her clear traffic, behind her, grid lock.
Not going the speed limit creates the traffic and makes travel worse.
found the carbrain. you also changed the subject. i said nothing sbout a highway.
if its rush hour on a highway, everyone is driving under the limit.
if its rush hour on a highway, everyone is driving under the limit.
This might be true in a lot of places, but let me introduce a counterpoint: Los Angeles.
We invented freeways, and I’m convinced we’ve perfected shitty traffic. Get on the 405 anytime between 6a and 10p? Gridlock, everyone is going below the speed limit. Get on basically any of our other freeways at rush hour? Yeah, that’s going to be us doing our best impression of NASCAR, driving bumper to bumper at least 10 over the speed limit.
It’s so well known that it’s a meme at this point. Every holiday season there’s a bunch of posts on social media about visitors needing to get with the program. My favorite this year was the “stay the fuck away from the left lane” guy.
Is it safe? Probably not. Is it reality in LA? Absolutely.
You don’t really hear about accidents for going slow… just saying.
you don’t hear about the dude who was pulling an insurance scam doing 15 in the lane next to the fast lane on a 12 lane interstate who got plowed into and nearly died because you gotta do at least 30 to get out of that scam with minor injuries? do you live in a cave?
Well damn, alright. I didn’t know that. You happy now?
