Stay under the speed limit, guys. It's not worth it.

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• wewbull@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  There’s a difference between driving fast and being ready to move when an opportunity appears. It mainly comes down to watching traffic far enough down the road so you anticipate where the gap will be. That then allows you to smoothly merge into it.

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  • 87Six@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Yea but my dad telling me to drive out on main street from a stop sign on a cold engine the moment he sees a space that is more than 5 meters really doesn’t help me focus on the far-away gaps lol

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    • ivanafterall@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      If you’d spent less time talking, you could have gone like three times already!

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• wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  There’s a nice little app on F-Droid called 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.

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  • Cronization@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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    • groet@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      The math might be correct it just doesn’t reflect what it says. Its 20min saved compared to going all of the roads at the speed limit all the time.

      So every time you slow down (because of trafic, a red light, a crossroads or for any other reason) the app will calculate you as going slower and “loosing” time. Of course you couldn’t actually have gone the speed limit in those situations but the app can’t know that. It actually can’t calculate the time you saved.

      But I can’t find the app on fdrois so I can’t check.

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  • Beryl@jlai.lu ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I tried to find the app but couldn’t. Are you sure it’s the right name ?

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    • wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Not sure if it was taken off FDroid for lack of updates or something, but I’ve found the github here. github.com/jakehilborn/speedr

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• binarytobis@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  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 pong to process it or misunderstand. Like “Take a right, now!” then they drive up onto the curb ten feet before the turn.

  My passenger yells anything they can walk the rest of the way.

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  • Feedback17@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Especially when the driver is a cartoon Martian

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• VoodooAardvark@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Only the worst drivers never miss the turn.

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  • guynamedzero@piefed.zeromedia.vip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    A good driver misses their exit sometimes. A bad driver NEVER misses their exit.

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  • binarytobis@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Never heard it put like that before.

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• kurikai@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  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

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  • plantfanatic@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    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.

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    • PrimeMinisterKeyes@leminal.space ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      That is illegal where I live.

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    • 87Six@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      "Under the speed limit’ is also 59 (assuming 60 is the limit)… Not just 30…

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    • kurikai@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      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.

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    • SwingingTheLamp@piefed.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Maybe your local government could do proper planning so that convenient and timely public transit would offer her a viable alternative to driving? Let’s not blame individuals for systemic problems.

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• BanaramaClamcrotch@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  This how I be shouting at other drivers lol

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  • joyjoy@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Don’t think I should go before you just because I have the right of way at a four way uncontrolled intersection. 

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    • BanaramaClamcrotch@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Seize the gap, you fool!

      Anyways, it’s more of a rotary thing

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• CallMeAnAI@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Most people die between 40-60.

  Speeding isn’t dangerous. The ability to make smart decisions about when to speed is.

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  • nutbutter@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I think you mean, the inability.

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    • CallMeAnAI@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      No, plenty of people have the ability. It’s a mix.

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  • Jax@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Most people die between 40-60

    According to what study?

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• sol6_vi@lemmy.makearmy.io ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Bro people I drive with SLAM on the breaks to obey traffic lights as they’re changing sometimes like, you’re gonna get rear ended doing that just go through the yellow. The green light is delayed ffs.

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  • TheseusNow@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    They aren’t all delayed, there are a few lights in my city that go green as soon as the other one goes red.

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  • ayyy@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    That’s what happens when you have massive wealth inequality and fixed-price fines. You have to set the fine high enough to deter most people from misbehaving, but that amount of fine could saddle some people with literal years of debt for running a red light and they act irrationally as a result.

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• ebolapie@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  If you hesitate, wait.

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• SARGE@startrek.website ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I know my vehicle’s limits, other drivers do not.

  The second I stopped to think about that for a second when I got my license, I realized that goes for other people too.

  Just because the combination of my vehicle and driving could have gotten through that gap, doesn’t mean yours can.

  So I’ll wait, just please actually go when the light changes and you’re 3 car lengths into the intersection…

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• dan1101@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  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.

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• VinnyDaCat@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  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.

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• SuluBeddu@feddit.it ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Self driving cars will be so much fun if they become the norm

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  • SanctimoniousApe@lemmings.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    No, we’ll be forced to work in them, too.

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    • helpImTrappedOnline@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      It’ll be just like doing homework on the school bus!!!

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• thatradomguy@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  You don’t really hear about accidents for going slow… just saying.

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  • HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    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?

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    • thatradomguy@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Well damn, alright. I didn’t know that. You happy now?

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