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[–] lightnsfw@reddthat.com 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Again, the speed limits usually aren't appropriate for the highways they're applied to so they don't make sense unlike rules regarding lane usage. If they did I wouldn't be complaining. It's also not anyone besides law enforcement's job to enforce them. By doing so you are creating an unsafe situation by packing all the traffic together.

If you need to merge into the left lane you simply wait for the faster traffic to go by. Are you suggesting that it's dangerous to cut people off? Because yea, it should be.

[–] the_sisko@startrek.website 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think the core issue here is that you believe that it should be common and accepted for individuals to decide whether traffic rules "make sense" and ignore them based on their own individual assessment. I think that's absurd.

[–] lightnsfw@reddthat.com 1 points 1 year ago

It's not my individual assessment. It's a well known fact that highways are engineered for higher speeds than the speed limits are set for.