This is why I'm in favor of public transit. So many people should not be on the road. This goes for the granny under the speed limit drivers and the insane road ragers.

[–] LoreleiSankTheShip@lemmy.ml 9 points 1 day ago (3 children)

I've never understood why people pick on drivers under the speed limit. It's called a limit, why do we expect people to be over it?

[–] darklamer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

There are speed limits in both directions, in every jurisdiction I'm familiar with it's illegal to drive both too fast and too slow, to exceed the posted speed limit or to drive so slowly that it impedes other traffic.

[–] LoreleiSankTheShip@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Oh, that's very interesting. Where I live there are only upper speed limits on most roads except highways. On other roads you can drive as slowly as you want, though everyone will overtake you if they can or honk at you if you don't.

[–] darklamer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Where I live there are only upper speed limits on most roads except highways. On other roads you can drive as slowly as you want,

Are you sure that you really don't have any traffic rules against causing a hazard or impeding traffic flow by being too slow? That seems both unusual and unsafe to me.

[–] colforge@lemmy.world 1 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

Where I’m from an officer can always pull you over for “reckless driving” or “impeding traffic”. The argument can literally be made that you’re driving dangerously no matter how fast you go. These days I just stick to the literal posted speed (as long as road conditions and traffic allow) and I’ll let a lawyer defend me from any citations. I stay in the slow lane and am constantly getting passed but I’ll be damned before I get another ticket for going 6 over.

[–] darklamer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

The argument can literally be made that you’re driving dangerously no matter how fast you go.

Well, that's certainly true also in every jurisdiction I'm familiar with, as it should be, common sense, really.

[–] colforge@lemmy.world 1 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago) (1 children)

Idk I don’t think an officer should have the right to pull over a person driving the posted speed limit in clear weather with no other proximate reason but maybe I’m insane.

[–] darklamer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

That all depends on what you actually mean by "no other proximate reason".

I think we all agree that the police should take immediate action if someone is driving the wrong direction against traffic, even if they're doing nothing else wrong and are driving the posted speed limit, to take an absolutely obvious example.

[–] colforge@lemmy.world 1 points 7 hours ago

That’s being a little purposely obtuse as that is obviously putting other drivers in danger. I mean that I shouldn’t have to worry about being pulled over if the radar gun says I’m driving the speed limit, obeying traffic laws, and driving a vehicle that is road legal and well maintained.

Yet an officer absolutely can pull me over and ruin my day and waste my time and money making me go to court over absolutely nothing and the absolute worst that can happen to them is a slap on the wrist if anything.

[–] CoolMatt@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 day ago

Depending where it is, a figure of speech up to a certain point of where they actual enforce it, most cops don't even go the speed limit on some roads and highways.

They're low and out dated as fuck, and mostly just a money grab, again, depending on the street and the limit, for example excluding in front of schools and parks

[–] TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.world 0 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

because they are assholes who think anyone going slower than them is stupid and they are very smart and the speed limit should not apply to such very smart people.

[–] LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago

Once she gets to work she finds a sign taped to the back of the car saying "honk it's my birthday"

[–] Apytele@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 day ago

I say this to every coworker who asks why I have a car I rarely drive. It's honestly just less stressful to commute that way. Idgaf about the weirdos at the bus stop for the most part. 90% of them are high or drunk af passed out cleanly. Every once in a while I have to nudge them out of the way to sit but that's not usually an issue they just grunt and shift and they're usually too shitfaced to move in their sleep once they're out again. One is a lady who is always drunk af but awake and basically just uses the bus stop as a people watching spot and tells me neighborhood drama. There's a pair of northerners who are polite in a northerner way. There were a brother and sister who were sleeping there for a month but last I heard she found a job and I wished them luck and haven't seen them since. I've had a few really good philosophical conversations. One was a guy who had gotten his phone stolen and we chatted about the positive effects of increased mindfulness of the day to day and not being constantly observed and reachable by both your personal contacts and the faceless corporations. I got bothered by one guy but groundskeepers were hanging kinda close and the admins pass me on their way from their cars into the building I haven't seen him since so either the facility took care of it or the other inhabitants did. Sometimes I talk, sometimes I just eat my Bacon and biscuit from the cafeteria and drink some tea. I'm trying to listen my way through the Bible just to know what's in it. Right now I'm listening to the long long list of shit you're not allowed to do while living in an aggressive war tribe in tents the desert like shitting too close to camp or having sex that doesn't make more babies to keep fighting the other tribes. The cadence is weirdly chill almost seussian.