new way to enforce speed limits

[Chef]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2xnWYx8YK8&feature=player_embedded

[ziggy]

Lets get one of those on I-77

[SWedd523]

Lets get one of those on I-77

Anything under 77, on 77, and you're slow.

[teej]

Anything under 77, on 77, and you're slow.

Even 77 is questionable. And 85 on 85 is slow, too.

[SWedd523]

You got it!

[teej]

I've been going 90 and still been passed like a grandma.

[rsxnova]

LMAO at these cops talking about dangerous speeds. Speed limits were put in place to make money, nothing more.

[teej]

LMAO at these cops talking about dangerous speeds. Speed limits were put in place to make money, nothing more.

Not really. Most speed limits in use today (the standard 65 or 70 on interstates, 55 on highways, 35-45 on other roads, 20 on side streets) were determined back when Eisenhower was building the interstates. The government blindfolded people, put them in the backseat of an average car of the day, and drove them at varying speeds on roads. The speed limit was made off of when most people felt the car was going too fast for the road. Back then, a run-of-the-mill Chevy sedan going 65 would've felt like it was about to fall apart. So a speed limit of 65 was appropriate. Now it's just an excuse to meet the quotas, because the average Chevy could do 80 (and does) with no issue.

[dnbman]

Feel free to believe that speed doesn't matter all you want as long as you are keeping a safe distance between you and the next car and paying damn good attention to what you're doing.

[teej]

Feel free to believe that speed doesn't matter all you want as long as you are keeping a safe distance between you and the next car and paying damn good attention to what you're doing.

This.

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[BlockParty]

Feel free to believe that speed doesn't matter all you want as long as you are keeping a safe distance between you and the next car and paying damn good attention to what you're doing.

For the whipper snappers out there, do they still teach the 2 second rule in drivers education? Where you pick a stationary object like a road sign and count One Mississippi, Two Mississippi from the time the bumper on the car you are following passes it....the front of your car shouldn't reach the sign prior to getting through Two.

And then you add 1 for each additional condition, +1 for night, +1 for raining, +another 1 if snowing.

So if you are driving at night in the rain, you should allow 4 seconds.

What this adjusts for is the speed you are traveling (the faster you are going, the more distance you need to leave between you and the car in front of you).

[teej]

They actually teach 3 now, and when I did the driving part of driver's ed, my instructor fussed if I was within 5. But he was a cop, so that's why.

[SWedd523]

I didn't do Driver's Ed in school because I didn't want to wait until my sophomore year to drive. I took a Defensive driving class in Rock Hill that taught us 1 car length for every 10 mph.

[dnbman]

For the whipper snappers out there, do they still teach the 2 second rule in drivers education? Where you pick a stationary object like a road sign and count One Mississippi, Two Mississippi from the time the bumper on the car you are following passes it....the front of your car shouldn't reach the sign prior to getting through Two.

And then you add 1 for each additional condition, +1 for night, +1 for raining, +another 1 if snowing.

So if you are driving at night in the rain, you should allow 4 seconds.

What this adjusts for is the speed you are traveling (the faster you are going, the more distance you need to leave between you and the car in front of you).

That's pretty good. I've also heard that you should have at least a car link for every 10 mph you are going between you and the next person, though that's harder to judge than the 2 second bit.

[dnbman]

I didn't do Driver's Ed in school because I didn't want to wait until my sophomore year to drive. I took a Defensive driving class in Rock Hill that taught us 1 car length for every 10 mph.

Yeah. Didn't see this when I posted above!

[davcbow]

Just be careful out there guys .. some people drive pretty good some cant drive at all .. going down the road at 70 mph you cant tell the good ones from the bad ones that why defensive driving is the best idea... :)