Do you drive above the speed limit?

Mr. Ed

Mr. Ed

Be what you is not what you what you ain’t
Location
Central NY
I usually adhere to the speed limit in towns, congested areas and school zones. Driving on highways and interstates I drive up to 9 mph above speed limit. If the speed limit is 65 mph and I can safely drive at higher speeds I try not to exceed 10 mph above speed limit so I might drive up to 74 mph.
 

Not anymore.

I find it annoying when I’m out for a leisurely drive on a secondary road and the driver behind me insists on riding my bumper instead of passing me.

I usually have to put on my turning signal, slow down, and pull over before they get the message.
 

Do you drive above the speed limit?​


On the freeway, yes

Somewhere around 5-7 mph above the limit

Unless I'm impeding traffic
then I match what everybody else is doing
 
Usually 5 miles over in certain areas of town that have a ridiculously low speed limit. I watch my step around schools and hospitals though. I learned my lesson a few years back trying to get our dog to the vet on a Saturday.
I got pulled over in front of a school for going over the speed limit. Seems there was a football game going on so the law was being strictly enforced.
It didn't seem to matter that I had a sick dog with me and the game was far from being over.
I must add that he didn't give me a ticket but my dog suffered longer because of the delay.
I suppose he was just doing his job but at the time all I thought about was my poor dog.
 
When I was young I drove the speed limit, but I got harassed a lot with people behind me flashing their lights and tailgating. In my first job out of college, my coworkers spent years lecturing me on how it was normal to go 5 mph above the speed limit and that I was impeding traffic. So finally I caved and went 5 mph above the posted speed limit.
Then I moved to Colorado where the speed limit was 75 mph and there were lots of curves and drop-offs. It took me a couple years before I could even drive the speed limit there, it felt too scary.
When I moved to Nebraska the speed limit was 65 and that was nice, but since then they upped it to 70 mph. I try to drive the speed limit but I slow down on a few of the sharper curves (I don't think the highway was designed for the newer faster speed limit).
In town I either drive the limit or +5 depending on the traffic. I am not fond of passing people, I wish there was an old people slow lane.
 
At my age, I stay about 2 mph above the speed limit. I don't do interstates anymore. I gave up driving at night about 3 years ago. The Macular Degeneration of my right eye messes up my night driving. Course here I take the back roads where I go so most of the time the speed limit is 45 mph as it's so crooked.
 
I have never felt the "need for speed" like a lot of others do. I normally drive the speed limit in the right lane on the interstate and let the others drive fast in the left. However, if a really good song comes on the radio, my foot has been known to push on the gas, sometimes without me knowing it. :p

What does bother me though is when I am in a residential neighborhood with a posted speed limit and cars are tailgating me for going the speed limit. This is not a freeway, children are playing in these places. Slow down people!
 
I don't pay attention to posted speed signs. I go as fast as the situation allows, and that's usually about the same as the speed limit.. Some days, I'm more aggressive than others. ( Come on, cops and car insurance companies can read, too.)
 
Rarely. I know speeding is the #1 cause of accidents.
I'm not talking about 5-10 miles over the speed limit; I'm talking about the idiots speeding & cutting in & out of traffic, making driving dangerous for everyone.
When I have a tailgaters, I'll give them a few seconds to change lanes. If they don't, I gradually slow down, which always works. No need to make a driver angry by brake checking.
 
Not me because I use something that no one else around here has even heard of. It's called a "Cruise Control." The speed on the highway is 100 km and that is what I set my cruise control. Everyone else passes me like mad due to the fact that police on the highways are as scarce as "hen's teeth." Many pass me on solid double lines others just pass me at 130 km in a 100 km zone. I suspect that many are high on something but I have no proof!
 
Almost always. Sometimes creeps up a couple of miles. But keep an eye on it. The only time i gun it on purpose is the once or twice a caution light i could have stopped for came on wirh a semi behind me who was clearly making no effort to stop.

Current car doesn't have cruise control but i always had mixed feelings about that anyway, loved it on long interstate drives but can't use it year round the places i've been living.

It is not wise/safe to use Cruise control on twisty mountain roads unless the road is totally dry and clear of ice patches that linger in shadows weeks after last storm. Because the CC will apply brakes if you gain momentum, say going downhill, your vehicle could skid due to even a small patch of black ice.
 
I go up to about 5 mph higher than the limit and that's ok with the police here usually. It really is annoying when people insist on being very close to the back of my car. The other day I was looking at a guy in my rear view mirror as he was on my bumper. He started saying things with his hand cupped next to his mouth. It made me wonder if something was awry with the back of my car. I still need to check that out. Thankfully the guy turned off to go another direction.
 
I'll admit it, I'm a speed demon. I do stay within the limit in town and I highly respect school zones, but get me out on the highway and Katy-bar-the-door.

I was born and raised within sound of the Indy 500 and something must have rubbed off. I just got sent to the wrong place....I should have been a Foyt or an Unser or an Andretti, or God forbid, an Earnhardt.....
 

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