Kanchou wrote:It was on the highway, but the speed limit should really be 100 / 120, which the roads and cars were clearly designed for.
I admit that 20 over on the local roads is pretty much my cruising speed unless the conditions dictate otherwise.
SPEEDER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Designed for or not I think we all know how well that argument would stand up in court. Plus, speed kills. I would seriously think about dropping your speed on local roads, both for your own driving record and the confused old folks and kiddies F'in around on the road. Like Yokohammer said, the 10% rule has served many of us well over the years, both on the toll expressways and the local roads. This same argument goes on here in western Canadia about limits being too low and archaic, but my overwhelming impression of people that think speeding is their right and getting ticketed for it is wrong are assholes, even if they don't know it and aren't usually assholes in other regards. Plus, the fines for excessive speed relative to the limit (>25% over or >50% over) are really quite something nowadays. LIke can be thousandses and thousandses. Which is really cool. Coz speed kills.
What they should do is design cars so they only go the speed limit + 10%. Like the old school bell that rang at 80 K on older Jpn cars.