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Old 09-10-2008, 07:36 AM   #11
glatt
 
Join Date: Jul 2003
Location: Arlington, VA
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On urban streets, I ignore the speed limit because traffic is so heavy you can't drive fast. Unless it's like 6am on a Sunday morning, then I drive only 5 over the speed limit because I'm too easy a target for DC cops trying to generate revenue.

In residential zones, I drive the speed limit and will happily slow traffic behind me down if they all want to drive faster than that. It's a fucking residential zone, people.

On the highway, it kind of depends on what the other traffic is doing. Generally, I go 5-10 over, but if there is heavy traffic and everyone is going 20 over, I will too because I don't want to impede traffic flow or get rear ended.

On rural country roads, I'm usually out of my element as some kind of visitor and don't know the road that well, so I go maybe 5 over the speed limit. This probably pisses off the locals.
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