That's the thing, its like fish and schooling. It gives the cops decision fatigue, if everyone is speeding they have a harder time selecting a target.
If everyone is going 90 it is probably unsafe to go at the speed limit
I think it's just a common understanding that if you normally can only go 20 mph bumper to bumper on the highway, when it's wide open you have an open pass to just floor it
my professor who commuted from northern california to seatle wasn’t used to it and got pulled over instantly, they are hella strict in oregon and washington apparently
There's places in the world where they aren't? I mean, i come from a place where it's a popular sport to tailgate people who dare to only go 150km/h in the fast lane, so i might be biased here, but it was always my impression that traffic is the main socially approved outlet for aggression.
Drivers tend to follow the fairly low speed limits in the Pacific Northwest
Have you seen how much trouble people have just wearing masks? If you think you can train 227 million Americans to drive safely you're smoking something
Im north California but im a slowpoke going like 70 maybe 75 sitting in the slow lane bc im neurotic
Meanwhile in Indiana, the fucking "crossroads of america" your lucky to get more than 2 lanes on a freeway and better hope to shit there's no accident cause that shit aint getting cleared at any speed thay would be considered reasonable.
12 lanes wide because traffic engineers still haven't figured out induced demand after adding more lanes for half a century