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• skulblaka@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  You ever tried to pull over an entire freeway full of cars at once?

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  • AreaKode@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    A single cop car on the side of the road can get everybody to magically follow the speed limit.

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    • Einstein@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      That’s really dependant on location. I have had plenty of road trips up and down the I5 where groups of cars pass cops on the side of the road going 80, and no one slows down and the cops do nothing. Source: I’m one of those drivers.

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      • HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        same on I10

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    • Confused_Emus@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      For a minute, maybe. Foot goes back down when the cop’s out of view in the mirrors.

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    • HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      nah, it just gets them to slow to 20 over the limit here

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  • fakeman_pretendname@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Not personally, no - but the police would only need to catch a handful each day to get things moving a little more safely in the area.

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• kameecoding@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Because the road design at fault, not people.

  Make roads narrower, and people will drive slower

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• klemptor@startrek.website ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Throw people in jail for driving too fast? That seems pretty extreme.

  It’s hard to police speeding on a highway. Typically if you do get pulled over for speeding, it’s because you’re going way faster than those around you. So even in a 55, if everyone’s doing 80, you’ve gotta be doing 95 or more for a cop to single you out and arrest you. (Or maybe the cop has a quota to meet.) And where I live, local cops can’t use radar, so it’s hard to prove how fast you were going.

  And then if you do get arrested, you’re most likely to get a ticket and points on your license. Get enough points and they’ll take away your license, but that means you’ve been caught repeatedly. And points expire eventually, plus if you go to your court date and plead not guilty, a lot of the time the judge will just remove the points. So a speeding ticket from years ago generally won’t have any bearing on your life except for the cost of the ticket.

  So within reason, you can pretty much speed all the time consequence-free ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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  • fakeman_pretendname@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    All fair points for a motorway/highway/freeway/whatever. I’d mistakenly thought the previous post was referring to a smaller local road with a 55mph limit.

    I don’t really care so much about what speed people do on motorways, but I have a massive problem with people doing 40-60mph in a 20-30mph limit residential area. Bear in mind where I live in the UK, the cars are driving 2 metres from the front door of everyone’s houses.

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• CileTheSane@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  If everyone is driving that fast and there aren’t accidents happening consistently then the posted limit does not reflect the reality of the road.

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  • teuniac_@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Or the road design doesn’t facilitate compliance with the speed limit. This is how policy and guidance on road infrastructure talks about these issues.

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