Why does Veeky Forums still think that speed LIMIT signs mean "minimum speed"?

Why is it than whenever I try to pass someone driving slow they always speed up?

maybe you kept driving into their glovebox like an ass beforehand

Because they can’t handle their ego. When people do that I cut in front of them and brake check them with my right signal on until they move over. Cars, trucks, buses, anything. Fuckers need to learn, and embarrassing them in front of other traffic is the perfect way to do it.

Since I don't live in a third world country like the US, I get signals for minimum/suggested/maximum speeds.

Don't be in my way fag.

And if I don't?

...on every single road?

there are quite a few states who have a 5 mph buffer above the speed limit. cops will not mess with you if you're going 4-5 over limit, but if you're caught going faster - the 5 goes towards the ticket.
I-95 has alot of 70 mph zones, and most people are going 74-75 mph. thus the speed "limit" is the "minimum speed"

Not every singles. When not specified you should already know the limits for the area you're in.
For example within city borders maximum is always 50 km/h and 30 km/h is usually the minimum, unless otherwise specified due to the road condition.

Freeways deploy many of those, like mountain roads.

There you go, straight out of traffic code

You know they have shit like that in the US too...

So?
Might be your business, but you can't do shit about it.

Traffic code of where?

This one is from Northern Ireland, might apply to GB too.

>limit
FUCK EM
>the law
FUCK EM
>but in europ...
NO, FUCK EM
>slow cruise
THIS IS AN INTERSTATE, FUCK EM
>traffic code
FUCK EM
>redlining isn't good for the engine
OIL CHEAP, FUCK EM
>drive for the conditions
FUCK EM

This is America, son. Leisure and comfort are for the back roads. The highway is for going to war, hard and fast.

not so fast kiddo

I like you.

>he doesn't live in bumfuck where the highways are ruled by no one

>Caring about people I don't know
Why would I do that? It's like those people who don't watch the news because bad things happen, it's like you don't know these fuckers why do you care?

sounds like a shit hole with straight flat roads that go on forever

Nobody thinks that.

>he doesn't know the joy of Appalachia

Because driving a car amongst other drivers requires a bit of care to ensure the safety of all.

That's not true at all.

you must be new here

because that's how everyone treats it, at least on freeways, most people will be going 5-10 mph faster.

>The highway is for going to war, hard and fast.
You guys think 85mph is fast.
We call that granny speed.

Why do normies think it doesn't?

Because we have a bunch of tiny little roads in the middle of fucking nowhere with the national speed limit.
That is 60MPH.
Would you do that on a single-track road where every corner is blind and you're likely to meet a tractor with something pointy on the front and a trailer full of fresh, steaming shit in the back?
I sure as fuck don't.

>all this implying

Nigga, I drive as fast as I fucking can. Usually around 95-100.

>the safety of all.

>hey, lets all be sheep

You mean normal speeds.

>6-lane interstate mountain roads
>unguarded 2-lane switchbacks with fresh tarmac
>park rangers in jeep compasses can't chase you, cops don't patrol federal land
>redneck:hipster ratio still very high

the downside is retirees from Florida not knowing how do drive and crossing the center lane in turns.

No, not at all.

>Hey let me hold up everyone for no good reason

In this case, being sheep is a good thing. Driving is a cooperative activity and not fucking up the flow of traffic should be at the forefront of your mind. More accidents are caused by the stupid fuck who's doing the speed limit in the passing lane and forcing everyone to go around him and make unsafe passes themselves.

>Allowed to go 30km/h on the same road people are allowed to go 130km/h
>not third world

youtube.com/watch?v=crKCJiOFF-k

FUCK EM

Fag, my cruise speed is around 120mph and I pass sheriffs and shit who usually don't even bother turning the lights on

...

this Cruise control in my car is limited to 101mph. Not that I tried it of course.

Why do you care, you fucking autist?

>Cruise control

lazy fuck can't keep speed with just your foot no wonder you're scared to go above 100 probably think your shit box will blow up

my shitbox just turned 1 yr old I don't think anything's going to explode in it for quite a while

You sound like you're 10 years old.

Because reduced travel times are always better and chassis, safety, and tire technology has improved to the point where higher speeds are not only possible, but recommended. Also, the proliferation of FWD cars has effectively turned the common man into a moderately talented race driver because they're so damn intuitive to control.

The US is stuck in the past where everyone is driving a piece of shit RWD economy car with a solid live rear axle, leaf springs in the back, and hockey pucks wrapped 'round every wheel, with driver protections like solid steering columns cars that preserved themselves by transferring all impact forces to the occupants, and any speed over 40mph was deadly territory.

Some craic at night when you've the lights to warn you though

insurance companies and envrionmentalists lobby against speed limit increases

cars are safer but insurance claims are not cheaper and there's no satisfying greenies

-even if you can survive a crash now, a totaled car is a totaled car. the likelihood of a crash is less important than the cost of a crash according to insurance
-no matter what, higher speeds require more fuel than lower speeds in the same car, and greenies that are happy to go after the average man while ignoring the majority of pollution will never shut up about muh carbon dioxide as they ignorantly huff the noxious fumes of hundreds of million-gallon turbocharged two stroke diesel cargo ships

STAY OUT OF THE PASSING LANE UNLESS YOU'RE PASSING AND I WON'T HAVE TO KILL YOU

>asshole sits on my ass
>start flashing lights of his brand new audi
>gently tap brakes, just a small speed adjustment due to last second spotted pothole
>he bumps into you because of not keeping safe gap
>collect insurance payout + sue for personal injury
works every time

>German migrant signals to pass
>brake check him
>he gets out and flashes his blue eyes directly into your mud puddles
>his lawyer gets out of the passenger seat
>two more jews and his paki boyfriend climb out of the back seat
>try to beg "but im 1/64th german"
>it doesn't work
>hans sues you for all you're worth and uses the profits to import more high end arabian male escorts

Fun environment you have there in Germany my western neighbour

how I was taught, was to stay in the merging lane if I wanted to go the speed limit, and that the left lane was specifically for passing around 10-15 over the speed limit. Safety on the freeway isn't about going the limit, it's about not going slower than everyone and creating a dangerous situation.

Now imagine that here in Northern Ireland someone had that fucking great idea that while learning to drive you are not allowed to go on a motorway. Once you get your full driving licence you are, but cannot go faster than 45mph for the first year.

Or you could do what I did, get a driving licence, wait 2 years before getting first car, and go straight onto a motorway alone doing 70mph even thou you never drove that fast and had your first car for less than an hour. Shit's dangerous.

Well, on the freeway that I commute over, the speed limit is 55mph and if I stay that speed, most people blow by me. If i'm in a cruising lane, I usually go within 5mph of the speed limit, but sometimes I go faster.

>OIL CHEAP, FUCK EM

i dont know why but muh sides

>being cuck'd by a sign

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The fuck are you on about? redlining on a straight level road will barely get you to that speed. You'd being abusing any car to go that fast across distance. Not to mention just how much gas you'll suck down.

Germans too(130 limit doing 150), Russians too(110 limit doing 130, Polish dudes too(140 limit doing 170), Spanish dudes too(100 limit doing 110), Italian dudes too(the faster the better), Lithuanian dudes too(100 limit doing 130)

Its just you who sucks dicks

What kind of shitboxes do you drive that can't go over a hundred without sitting on the redline?

>Local Law allows going 10 over the limit
Ergo cruising speed is Limit+10.
What is so hard to understand for autists?

Because only cucks obey traffic laws.

Actually there is 10% speed limit tolerance in germany and 10kmh tolerance in poland, however they exceed it
You’re just being a stupid cunt not accepting that speed limits are hideous for modern cars and have been applied when cars had 4 drum brakes, crossply tires and no abs

Fuck off, Bobby.

Where I am in the US the speed limits are way too low for the road they're on.
Almost everywhere in my town you're on a straight line with corn fields on both sides for 5 miles that's almost 100% passing zone.
Speed limit is 35 on all of those roads.
I think the slowest I've seen someone doing outside of shit weather conditions is 50. Saw a state trooper doing like 60, and see local cops doing just as fast.

In North Texas, most roads are toll roads, I try to drive thru them fast as I can so the camera doesn't get my plate. 125mph and it still gets me

>when cars had 4 drum brakes, crossply tires and no abs

the problem is that people are still driving those pieces of shit

>tumblr picture

I think it's just an example of each, that's an insane range of speed if not

not just Veeky Forums everyone is speeding by 10 %

Didn't Montana get rid of the "reasonable & prudent" speed limit a couple months after trying it out? Pretty sure it's 75 there now.

What sort of hell car do you drive that can barely crack a hundred

Veeky Forumsur guy

It's 80 on interstates and 70 on state highways now

Speed limits were set in the 1950's. And again in the 1980's. Modern cars are more than capable of safely exceeding the limit. Thats why people drive over the limit.

It was "reasonable and prudent" for a long time. They set the limits in the early 2000's, and everyones average speed immediately increased .

I could ride my bike there with no issues.
That looks like a nice sprinting/drafting section for my roadbike.
Most of them are not for safety reasons alone, also modern drivers on average are worse than they used to be.
>texting while driving
>what are winter tires
>no maintainance

Only complete morons who also put nitrous on their 76 FERD because they saw it on street outlaws.

>I-I'M CRUISING

So am I

But I'm not a brainlet so I can relax while going fast instead of breaking down from information overload like some sort of woman
>I CANT EVEN
>*SLOWS DOWN*

I will over take anyone not going the speed limit where its perfectly safe to do so (most of the time i'll overtake anyway)
>Driving fast is safer because i'm concentrating more

Tell that to the guy with the Jeep Cherokee with 1k miles on it that exploded the other day

Bong here, I've been doing an experiment recently. I've been driving at exactly the speed limit on every road I go on, and pretty much half the time someone is """stuck""" behind me they'll speed up to ten over the limit and switch lanes to get around me. No-one obeys them. Hell, I've merged onto the motorway at ten over and then immediately been overtaken.

*blocks your path*

>mfw car can not exceed speed limit
>mfw exceeding the limit would most likely kill me

My car shakes and bounces at the limit, it's somewhere between terrifying and exhilarating.

My car maxes out and oversteers way before the limit, best I have done was 180 km/h.

My car won't do 180, but I get the feeling it's a lot newer than yours is.

Lol chrysler quality

Well said

Speed limit should be set at the speed of 90% of free flowing traffic, then we wouldn't have this problem.

They're set arbitrarily lower for "muh safety" and "muh children" who are for some reason playing on a highway.