Higher speed limits = less speeding

Samurai07SS wrote: I definitely concur that it is TOO easy to get a drivers' license in the United States. In Europe, if you road test in an automatic transmission equipped car, that's what you drive. If you test on a manual, you have your choice. Here in the US, it seems that standard shifts are no long standard. You have to almost ORDER a manual transmission now. That contributes to many of our traffic problems. Instead of shifting and keeping up on what their cars are doing, they're stuffing face, gabbing on the cellphone, texting, just goofing off behind the wheel. Where I live, Interstate 87 between Albany NY and the Canadian Border was designed to be traveled at over 80mph. The speed limit is a ridiculous 65. This road traverses not quite 200 miles of NOTHING, going through two small cities (glens falls and plattsburgh) before terminating at Autoroute 15 in Quebec. New York state employs a ridiculous amount of speed enforcement on this road. In fact, if you googled Speedtraps and NY Northway, there would be horror story after horror story... speed limits are NOT about safety. Speed limits are about state revenue enhancement. Period.

Oh god.... "The Northway."

On the Northway, 74 is ok, 76 is risky. As some mentioned earlier, I've noticed, in the morning most everyone is driving just a little over,if that. Coming home on a sunday night, look out.

I always taught the same theory at driving schools. Have a plan A, B and C for every instance. In reply to David S. Wallens:

In reply to 93celicaGT2:

you know of our northway?

Samurai07SS wrote: In reply to 93celicaGT2: you know of our northway?

Very well, thank you. It is JUST as boring as I70/I90.

There is only one problem: inattentive driving. Everything else is based upon it. My #1 gripe is people in the left lanes going way slower than the flow of traffic, pissing people off, and either getting tailgated or passed "with prejustice" on the right. If these slow people feel they're following the rules, how about the one called, "slow traffic keep right."

I suspect a lot of these people who say they're being tailgated are doing just that, clogging up the left lane like a big piece of cholesterol...

Regarding cell-phone users, one of the lower forms of life, I like honking my horn when they try to change lanes into me. It's fun watching them jump, dropping their cell-phone into their cup of hot coffee, and splashing it all over their newspaper.