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Apart from the occasional overtaking which you might need the extra speed, the odds you get a ticket from a hidden camera are very low if you just respect the speed limits. Or am I missing some point?
No, I agree with you. Especially since aside from the driver's safety, a lot of times, speed limits aren't about the safety of those in the car but to reduce the amount of noise due to tires, engines, breaking, etc... for those living nearby as well as pedestrians, cyclists, buses, animals, etc...
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Apart from the occasional overtaking which you might need the extra speed, the odds you get a ticket from a hidden camera are very low if you just respect the speed limits. Or am I missing some point?
In the southwest, we have what's referred to as one-light towns. Maybe this translates to other parts of the world as well, but essentially a town so small that they only need one stop light to regulate traffic. These are the definition of a sleepy town. As a specific example I'm well traveled is a stretch of state highway in Texas between Ft Worth and Amarillo called Hwy 287. As you get away from Ft Worth, and even…
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I would argue that general population disagrees with this. +/- 20% tolerance is completely acceptable.
20% means you drive at 80 in a 65. That is in no way acceptable.
I don’t know what you really mean by acceptable, but there are plenty of roads with a 65 mph speed limit where 80 miles an hour is perfectly safe, and there are of course plenty of roads with a 65 mph speed limit where 70 mph is and unsafely fast. And there are road conditions in all of those roads where 45 mph would be on unsafe. It is difficult to make blanket statements about what a safe speed is knowing nothing other than the posted speed limit.
To put the same point in a different context, remember that it wasn’t really that long ago that there was a national 55 mph speed limit, and many of the same interstates that used to have a 55 mph speed limit now have an 80 mph speed limit.
Am I doing something wrong? The downloaded video mp4 seems highly broken. I see two side-by-side copies of the content within the frame, with artifacts that make it impossible to read anything.
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Your comment is an interesting reflection to me of the expectations people have for cheap or free software. You were willing to invest your time and schedule into seeing this talk live, which for many people is a much larger investment than $10. My default assumption of folks on this board is that they're well-off tech workers, which would make it seem even starker in comparison to $10. My comment isn't anything abou…
I like the feeling of hanging out with likeminded people or friends and showing each other the cool stuff we're working on. Asking for (or receiving!) even nominal amounts of money makes it a completely different kind of interaction and puts me in a completely different mindstate. In my experience, doing the math on monetary value of time spent on random activities or interactions just makes everybody sad and doesn't…
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I would argue that general population disagrees with this. +/- 20% tolerance is completely acceptable.
20% means you drive at 80 in a 65. That is in no way acceptable.
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I'd argue speeding is even worse, but to each their own.
Anecdata, but I regularly see people exceed the speed limit by 30mph in Houston without much intervention by police. The city has (imo) a psychotic driving culture, but is still roughly middle-of-the-road in us news and world report's ranking of most dangerous US cities to drive in. Large speed deltas are (conjecture I haven't bothered to research) probably unsafe under any conditions. Exceeding safe speeds for the c…
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