Lack of ticket does not equal skill! Most people think they are more skilled drivers than average; half are wrong.
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Lack of ticket does not equal skill! Most people think they are more skilled drivers than average; half are wrong.
@ Billvon,
I was just responding to previous post. I have never had an accident and have driven more than most. The above highway is a lot more fun in the snow. It is snowy here 5-6 months of the year. Accident free is good enough for me, but I have no lack of speeding tickets. Just not enough to warrant a suspension. Is every little thing an argument with you?
I was just responding to previous post. I have never had an accident and have driven more than most. The above highway is a lot more fun in the snow. It is snowy here 5-6 months of the year. Accident free is good enough for me, but I have no lack of speeding tickets. Just not enough to warrant a suspension. Is every little thing an argument with you?
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Even the best drivers will get speeding tickets if they drive faster than the posted speed. Also, you may not over do it to the point where you lose your license, but I'll bet you insurance company has taken notice and is charging you more than it otherwise would if you didn't have any speeding tickets.
It is a proven fact most people will get at least 90% of their moving violations within 10 miles of their home. No amount of speeding will ever make more than a few minutes of difference within that mileage range. You can actually test that for yourself. Pick a spot you drive to regularly and time it the way you usually drive it. Then the next time you drive it, time it again but stay at or under the posted speed limit, and find out what the difference is. Then ask yourself if that little bit of difference is worth the aggravation of paying ticket fines and larger insurance premiums?
Actually its more than that, i know of a couple of volly ambos who tested speed. Both ambulances started at a fixed point, one drove as fast as it could (lights and sirens) flying flat out, the other also drove lights and sirens but drove at the speed limit. Even with the advantage of a hotted up ambulance driving with lights and sirens so the trafic got out of the way the ambulance which drove at the speed limit arived before the one which drove flat out was able to open the back doors. Speeding has apsolutly no effect on travel time
Well that takes the cake for dumbest thing I've read all day.
Of course the fastest vehicle gets there first, and if it didn't then IT WASN'T THE FASTEST VEHICLE. Obviously your ambo driving friends failed to keep the speed up. But I guess you don't need to be a mathematician to drive or work in that sector. :shrug:
Under equal conditions 60MPH will never be slower than 30MPH.
no actually, its not, especially when your talking about people who cant drive through redlights. I dont know how much you speed but if you dont how many times have you watched a car speeding off down the road only to catch up to it when it hits a red light or a trafic jam
It may SEEM you get there faster but you really dont. At MOST you MIGHT make it there 5 min faster by speeding and running yellow lights but your putting everyone else at risk and wasting fuel.
It may SEEM you get there faster but you really dont. At MOST you MIGHT make it there 5 min faster by speeding and running yellow lights but your putting everyone else at risk and wasting fuel.
How can you be breaking the speed limit if you're stuck in traffic? Certainly not for any significant length of time or distance. You're essentially muddying the waters on the issue with talk of "ah, but if you get stuck...."
It's simple math - the higher average speed will cover a greater distance quicker. It can be a marginal difference in average speed, or significant. Or in your example, an utter failure to travel faster. I'd postulate your example took place in a busy city and the first ambulance found itself hardly able to break the speed limit.
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yes how unfair of me to actually use REALITY rather than say a race track to point out that SPEEDING doesnt make any difference
And no actually it didnt, it was in the country, on the open road (wont say which area) to a country hospital.
Er, did you actually read what you posted? It states quite clearly it's quicker. :shrug:
And that's using minimal differences in speed over a short distance.
If you are always trying to get somewhere faster, there's a good chance you will suffer more road rage and that's never a good thing, especially if anyone else is in the car with you to witness it.
Who said race track? You said it's not quicker, then post a link showing it is. Now think, if you travelled 100mph, over 100miles, how long does that take?yes how unfair of me to actually use REALITY rather than say a race track to point out that SPEEDING doesnt make any difference
Now say 50mph same distance. Time?
If you can't do math then fine, but it's hardly a one size fits all issue. And to suggest it's not quicker on the basis of what some of your friends did in a poorly carried out second hand experiment is utterly ridiculous.
Then their average speeds will have to have been the same to arrive at the same time.
How unfair of me to use maths to prove a point instead of just hearsay and conjecture! :shrug:
Ah that's just using math to convice people who aren't good at math about something.
I see you fell for it.
This is what it claims:
Travelling at 100 km/h instead of 110km/h over a distance of 10 km only takes about an extra 30 seconds
But because they used a high rate of speed and a short distance then end up with a small absolute difference, but still that 30 seconds you save is 10% faster.
So the fact is that 10% over long distances adds up quite a bit.
Indeed, if one drives maybe 20,000 km per year, and probably at an average of only about 50 km/hr, so driving at an average of 10% faster saves you more than an entire work week.
So I get a week at the beach, you get a week stuck in traffic.
Arthur
Yes that works fine if there isn't much traffic, however with a little traffic if you still want to go faster, you have to play the lane change game, cut people off, do a lot of swearing and stand out like a sore thumb to any cop in the vicinity. So when you get where you are going you will be stressed out. But you will get where you are going a little sooner, by a few minutes.