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How Fast Do You Drive?

Depends on my mood. Normally with in 5 of the limit. For around the city that bettween 35-45 mph. off stop light I normally pick up speed faster than everyone else because I like the extra room to move around if I have 2. Plus the car I drive pick up is a lot better than normal cars. It has a fairly larger enginee for it size and geared to match.

For interstate driving I normally set my cruise at 75 mph and go with it (other wise 5 over the limit). Like people above I hate left lane campus because it is not safe. The left lane is for PASSING ONLY come on people understand that.

As for a even larger pet peiev of min is when I driving though houston or other major city and there always some idoit not going the speed of traffic. I dont care what the speed limit says match the speed of traffic because other wise you the guy going slower than everyone else is a huge danager on the road. Also the last place your eyes should be going in that type of traffic is to you speedo or you gages. That means you have to take your eyes off the road and you are forcing you speed to match. Really not safe at all. In going thoug houston (speed limit 60mph) I have had the highway speed ranging from 50-80mph. That not me passing cars left and right or being passed left and right that is the flow of traffic and everyone should match it (plus as I said before you shouldnt be watching you speedo any ways.) A huge reason is when you releize how heavy the traffic is. I used ot having 1.5-2 car lenths in frount of me and behind me. Cars move in and out of that distance. I have to chance lane into spots that are about that big. Have cars changing around me like that. So at the speed we are going and how close we are there not much room for some idoited who can not match the flow of traffic. We can not move around you. You may not be in the wreck but you the slow driver was the one who caused it to happen. And like I said in stuff like that you should not really be watching you gages at all. On a normal drive though houston I see my speedo the last time just north and I dont see it again until I get to the south side of town (A good 40-60mins)

If you can not handle that stress or that speed DONT DRIVE ON THE FREEWAYS though major cities that simple. It danagers if you can not match the flow of traffic.
 
The freeway speed limit here is 65 mph. With that said I normally range between 70-82 mph. Sometimes when I'm not paying attention to my speedometer it has creeped up to 90-94 mph. Don't really care about left lane campers since normally there are 4-5 lanes to choose from on our freeways in town, though on two lane highways they can get annoying.

Surface streets are different I normally go slightly over the speed limit but not much. If the light is red I'll coast to it so hopefully when I get there it will be green.

MacsomJRR said:
I usually always obey the speed limit unless I'm driving to Vegas:cool:
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Does your car fall apart on the crappy I-15 between Baker, Ca and the border with Nevada?
 
In Chicago the highway speed limit is 55 MPH. If traffic is loose enough to allow for it I usually go about 80-85. A few weeks ago I just got my first speeding ticket in 7 years - going 67 in a 45 MPH zone. The cop was nice enough to knock it down to 65 on the write-up for me though.
 
speed limit-3mph over usually, which means about 35-38 most of the time. i figure no cop'll pull me over for that and if they do i can just say my speedometer said i was going the limit. on highways i rarely go over the limit, but thats not my choice. i dont wanna see what happens to my car over 70. :eek:

my dad's crazy though. he'll easily go 10-20mph over the speed limit and hes never gotten a ticket. 65 in a 40 is scary from the passenger seat though.
 
Normally about 10% above the posted limit since that's the magic number for the police here. ;) :D I make an exception for school zones though, as I obey those to the letter (or number, as it were...)

Yeah, I know it's wrong, so sue me. :cool:
 
~Shard~ said:
Normally about 10% above the posted limit since that's the magic number for the police here. ;) :D I make an exception for school zones though, as I obey those to the letter (or number, as it were...)

Yeah, I know it's wrong, so sue me. :cool:
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Magic # for highway, 10 mi, magic # for major road (San Jose Blvd is one), 15 mi.
 
yg17 said:
You know how everytime someone flys past you, whether its on the highway or a city road, and you say "Look at that jackass!"

I'm that jackass.
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Sometimes I do it, too. :)
but you didn't hear it from me. :p

BUT I don't do it in an unsafe manner. I won't do 60 in a 35. I usually just keep up with the flow of traffic.

There's one street near me that I don't like.. People do 60-70 down it, and it's a 35. Eventually the residents of the neighborhood called in the Police to give tickets... 90% of the people they pulled over for speeding LIVED IN THAT NEIGHBORHOOD.
I keep up there, just because if I go 35 on that street, I'll get rear-ended by a giant SUV that gets 3 MPG while the driver is talking on their cell, putting on make up, and doing their hair.

Oh yeah, and left lane campers suck. :mad:
 
120-130 km/h on the highway (speed limit is 100 but no one respects it)
In town, 70-75 on boulevards and 60-65 on residential streets, unless its a school zone or the speed limit is lower then 50 for some reasons

Sometimes I go way faster then that, but its not the kinda things I like to brag about.
 
75 (MPH) on the highway, 80 if no one is around...

35 is plenty good for most city streets. Any faster you'll hit the crazy folks on bikes and the people who walk in front of you.
 
I'm with MACDRIVE only I usually do the exact speed limit.

I used to be like everyone else, speeding. But then something happened. I got several tickets and then the last straw was when I was the SLOWEST car on the road on I-95 going 80 and the cop pulled me over just because I have a sports car. My insurance shot up and I had to go to driving school to get it down a little.

Once I started going the speed limit I noticed how many people go at least 5 over. And then it hit me, everyone was stressing out to get where they are going and I wasn't anymore. I am more relaxed and generally enjoy the drive now. And guess what? most of the time the speeders get to where they want to go maybe 30 seconds faster than I do and sometimes not faster at all. Oh and here's a secret. City's time lights for the speed limit. When you go the speed limit you typically have to stop at less lights.

Sure people get pissed off when I am on a single lane road but you know what? I DONT CARE because they are the ones who want to break the law. Nothing makes me laugh more than someone who is trying to push me off the road, it just makes me turn the music up and smile. Driving is bliss now and fun! :D

The only time I go over the speed limit is on 95 because if I don't I will get killed. Everyone typically goes 75 in the middle lane and 80-90 in the left ... well that's when the daily traffic jam isn't in effect (rush hour).

And yes, even I think left lane campers SUCK, but only on the highway because technically the left lane isn't a passing lane on a regular road.
 
0-90 mph

Depends on the road and my mood. I have gone as fast as 110 in the states and about about 125 on the autobahn near Frankfurt.
Now that I drive my Jeep most of the time, I pretty much do the speed limit or 5-10 over.

On the highway, we usually take my wife's Passat wagon, and I rarely go more than 10 over the posted limit, because that seems to be a "safe" number where the LAW won't pull you over.

On the other hand, with my radar detector and a front door, I will go pretty fast.
I managed to follow some guy in a Porsche from just north of Providence, RI to the new hampshire border, roughly 100 miles,going 90-100 the whole time. I just followed him about 1/2 mile back in case he got busted. :D
 
Limit? What do you mean, "limit"? Those numbers on the little white signs aren't for decoration? :eek: I pass them so quick it's hard to discern what they mean. :D

Seriously, I drive so much w/ my dog (who loves to put her head out the window) that I max out @ 5 mph over the speed limit. And that's in realtively traffic-free conditions. Any faster and I just wouldn't feel in proper control of my car.
 
Here in Texas the highway speed limits are either 60 or 65. I'll usually drive at least 5 miles over (because honestly... what cop is going to pull me over for that?), but depending on my mood I can get up to 75 or 80. The fastest I've ever driven was 90, so I'm not that crazy of a driver.

On local roads I try to stay anywhere between the speed limit and 5 over.

This is highly dependent on what kind of music I listen to. Lately it's been depressing acoustic stuff, so I've been pretty chill and haven't sped much.
 
I'm finding I don't pay attention to speed as much as I do to timing. I read a few years ago that the worst offender to gas mileage was the brakes. Stop braking and you get great mileage. So, I try to vary my speeds so that I use them as little as possible. It's a challenge on the way in to work, but on the way home, much easier.
 
I drive quite fast -- usually 10mph above limit in city and around 85mph on freeway (and only to maintain my clean driving record -- otherwise I'd find it safe to drive 90-100mph). In Europe I drive around 140-150kph on the freeway.

I do find that I get to places quite a bit faster than other people.
 
Well considering I live in Washington State, the cops love busting people for speeding (8mph over), everyone goes the speed limit. I still go about 10 mph if it is the highway or a main road. I do the limit in neighborhoods.

Then it depends on what car I am driving. If I am taking the Suburban, I go about 5 over. If it is the New Beatle(turbo) or IS350 then its whatever I want to do. Just got to be smart about where cops are. Never used a radar detector.
 
I don't really like driving fast since I am not a very experienced driver. The fastest I've ever gone in was 45mph on a city street in a BMW. Boy, what an experience :cool: :p
 
SuperSnake2012 said:
I don't really like driving fast since I am not a very experienced driver. The fastest I've ever gone in was 45mph on a city street in a BMW. Boy, what an experience :cool: :p
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You would definitely have fun on Southern California freeways. When its not wall to wall traffic. People are going 80 mph and thats just in the slow lane.
 
~Shard~ said:
Normally about 10% above the posted limit since that's the magic number for the police here.
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Same here. It's also the degree of error that's allowed by Australian Design Rules when it comes to speedometer calibrations so technically if my speedo is accurate (and it is quite) I cannot legally be charged or fined for the 10% discrepancy.

Unfortunately there are other state-based laws that overrule this so it's a bit of a grey area but it doesn't really matter because only the mean policemen would ever pull someone over for such a small speed infraction.

My job is driving-based so IMO, the speed limits are pathetically low anyway. I think driving 10% over the limit is safer than driving massively under the speed limit too.
 
mad jew said:
Same here. It's also the degree of error that's allowed by Australian Design Rules when it comes to speedometer calibrations so technically if my speedo is accurate (and it is quite) I cannot legally be charged or fined for the 10% discrepancy.
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High five mate for taking advantage of the system! :D
 
Yeah, in Victoria there used to be a 10% allowance but that's been removed now. However there are talks of bringing it back in.

I'm pretty much a goody-goody driver. I always stay pretty close to the speed limits. There are however some roads which have ridiculously slow speed limits for no apparent reason and that really gets on my nerves.
 
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