Thread: Does anyone ever obey the speed limit

I do NOt agree with most of the current speed limits, but I ALWAYS obey them. Money is hard enough to come by without donating it to Govt revenue raising.
Pickles.

Originally Posted by digger

On the way up to your travelling speed......
and on the way down from it??

I always thought they were lower limits.

Actually, you'd like this one, travelling in SA recently there was an ambo ahead parked on the side of the road in a 110km/h with its lights on. I slowed down to thirty much to the irritation to those behind me. One passed me (I reeled him in later but that's another story).
I believe in those situations I am supposed to slow to 25km/h.

It is difficult to break the speed limit when most of the traffic seems to be doing 20-30kph below the posted limit, even in excellent conditions.
This bugs me a lot more than someone traveling a little above the posted limit on a major highway in excellent conditions, driving safely and aware of what is around them.

Originally Posted by mike123

I endeavour to keep to the speed limit - can't afford the fines. However, I'm finding more and more cars going slower than myself, especially the ones that like to slow down 100 mtrs before a red light and then crawl the last 30-40 mtrs to the last car in the queue.

The ones that generally overtake me have P plates on.

Why on earth would you want to use extra fuel, then having to use your brakes just to hurry up to the waiting line of cars?

Seems to me to be reasonable to glide slowly up to the line of cars, unless you just want to be stationary for longer.

Mike

I choose the speed depending on so many things. I have never broken a speed limit, or had a fine, even parking. I will do the exact speed on a single lane road when someone is behind me. Slow driving can cause frustration and accidents. But when not blocking traffic I've been know to sit behind a slow truck (so not my fault) and do 80km/h on the freeway. As I have a puma I can do fast and slow. What I have noticed though is that you more abuse driving slowly in a small car. I've had people in Sydney so irate behind me doing the limit in a fiesta. But in the defender I think people feel sorry for you, or you are too big too get close to.

When people tailgate me I drive very slow for a while then speed up to the limit, it can take some people a while to work out you don't sit 3m from my car.
I hate tailgating.

I do find though driving a defender people are always very polite and let you in. My theory is that they think you have an old car and go off road, not a turramurra tractor.
Any thoughts?
Peter

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Originally Posted by JDNSW

Month or so ago round here they held a widely advertised blitz on stop signs at railway crossings (a lot of these round here, with fairly infrequent trains).

I always stop at railway crossing stop signs including the one in the local village where almost no other light vehicle stops (trucks do) even though there's an old gate-house up against the road and line blocking the view. A few days ago at dusk before I had stopped I got a long blast from the driver of a train that was just starting to poke its nose out from behind the gate-house as it slowly picked-up speed from having hooked-up a string of container carriages.

At another local-ish crossing near Bribbaree on a 100kph back road the stop sign is obscured until very close to the crossing. Not being a regular user of this road in this direction I was caught by surprise so had to stop quite abruptly. However the truck recently overtaken and not far behind had no intention of even slowing ...time to test the 3.0's acceleration!

Originally Posted by Mick_Marsh

I always thought they were lower limits.

Actually, you'd like this one, travelling in SA recently there was an ambo ahead parked on the side of the road in a 110km/h with its lights on. I slowed down to thirty much to the irritation to those behind me. One passed me (I reeled him in later but that's another story).
I believe in those situations I am supposed to slow to 25km/h.

Didn't break the speed limit doing it?

I can't believe the posts from people that have never broken the speed limit

Must be the only drivers in the country.

Now many years ago,i changed the diff ratio in the HQ ute from 3.55 to 3.08,we worked out pretty quickly it would wind off the speedo(but thats another story)

And it was in the NT

Originally Posted by scarry

Didn't break the speed limit doing it?

Absolutely not!