It’s not just a matter of others getting butthurt. It’s actively dangerous to be driving at a different speed from the rest of traffic, regardless of whether you’re going faster or slower.
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dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 17 hours agoPractically no one actually drives at or below the speed limit in the US, especially on freeways. Whether or not you personally like this doesn’t matter – it’s just how it is.
You’re welcome to try it, but speeding is so pervasive in our culture that this will single you out and Ruggedly Individualistic Americans will get frothingly butthurt at you over it. Prepare to get tailgated, cut off, bullied out of your lane, stuff thrown at your car, etc.
howrar@lemmy.ca 11 hours ago
SwingingTheLamp@midwest.social 9 hours ago
If that’s true, then it would be a good idea to have everybody converge on a particular speed. It doesn’t seem practical to negotiate that speed amongst a constantly-changing set of drivers, it probably needs to be chosen in advance. That seems like a natural function of government, to choose the consensus speed through a process designed to represent everybody in the community.
To communicate to drivers entering the roadway this consensus speed which everybody must travel at—for safety—the government could, say, post it on signs located along the roadside.
But that’s probably just a ridiculous fantasy. How then should all drivers negotiate the consensus speed to ensure safety?
howrar@lemmy.ca 2 hours ago
No negotiation is needed. As long as everyone agrees to follow everyone else (i.e. no one tries to overtake and you keep a constant gap with the car in front of you), then everything will naturally fall into place.
cley_faye@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
It sounds like you’re proud of your culture of not giving a crap about rules set to improve safety for everyone. On that account, I agree that we’ll never see eye to eye about this.
dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
What part of what I wrote expressed that I agreed with it?
I’m just telling you how people behave. I don’t have any control over anybody but myself. For what it’s worth, I’m probably one of the six people in this damn country who doesn’t drive like a nut.
GrumpyDuckling@sh.itjust.works 8 hours ago
I remember a young college aged guy got shot in the head for beeping his horn at someone. Happened a few years sgo.
Kit@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 hours ago
I haven’t driven over the speed limit in a decade in the US and have anecdotally never experienced the behavior you’re describing.