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can't comment in the poll. You left off the "stay with traffic" option.

The speed limit is whatever the masses are travelling at.

Tough one to answer for me...

Carparks(no limit) = 10-15mph regardless of how open visibility is. too easy to find gravel, or oil. Pedestrians too
30-40mph limit = The limit or less all the damned time
50mph limit = I may go up to 10mph over depending on conditions and the road visibility
60 limit = I usually do 5, sometimes 10 over
70 limit(motorways) = Usually cruise at 80mph, sometimes stretch to 90mph

DivideOverflow wrote:can't comment in the poll. You left off the "stay with traffic" option.

The speed limit is whatever the masses are travelling at.

I can add that, but before I do, I'd like to say that option is there - it is the "Limited only by the safety of the act of going fast". Because if the traffic is going 90 in a 65, which I have seen here in Ohio, you are certainly going fast, and breaking the law, but doing it to be safe. Yes or no?

Nibblet99 wrote:Tough one to answer for me...

Carparks(no limit) = 10-15mph regardless of how open visibility is. too easy to find gravel, or oil. Pedestrians too
30-40mph limit = The limit or less all the damned time
50mph limit = I may go up to 10mph over depending on conditions and the road visibility
60 limit = I usually do 5, sometimes 10 over
70 limit(motorways) = Usually cruise at 80mph, sometimes stretch to 90mph

Your answer is clearly "10 or more over is not unheard of". At your outside limit you are willing to do more than 10 over.

You see the poll is not about how you drive under all conditions really, but what is the most speeding you do. I think there is are these groups I've created in the poll - the "no speeding" group, the "5 over group", the "10 over group", the more than 10 from time to time" group, the "speeding is fine based on conditions" group, and finally the "psl, I don't need no psl" group. I think everyone falls into one of the groups rather squarley.

10 or more is not un herd of...

i usually drive within the speed limit... traffic is important obviously. On the open roads though... i love to cruise around 80 or more regardless of the speed limit.

Candy750 wrote:Good topic! I have a question!

WHERE does the speed limit "increase"? Before the sign, at the sign, after the sign?

Depends on the state. California the law is 100 feet after the sign the speed limit is effective. This was from a cop friend that happened to be running radar.

If I were by myself on a highway, probably 10 or so over. Most of the time traffic is going more than 15/20 over around here and I keep up. In town I try to stick to the limits, more for pedestrians than myself..the little boogers like to hop out without looking too much.

WHERE does the speed limit "increase"? Before the sign, at the sign, after the sign?

I recall that slowing down is a 2sec rule after the sign. YMMV. As for speeding up, I would imagine if an LEO wanted to be a herk about it, the sign itself would be the technical line. I start speeding up 2sec before passing it.


As for here in JPN, posted speed limits are more like guidelines

You need to be travelling AT the speed limit when you pass the sign if you're required to slow down.

If the speed limit increases you are allowed to start accelerating after you cross "the line."

Around here at least.