Speed limits are a communist plot to kill ambition and excellence.

Me, passing dozens of cars trapped in traffic while coasting on my bike - I am the embodiment of excellence. Pure ambition. Completely free.

There is perhaps no greater feeling of power so readily accessible to the common folk.
- Trains though
I used to ride a mountain bike to a job. Flipping on the shocks and riding over gravel mounds while the obscene level of construction kept drivers glued in one place for minutes.
You joke but you get one out of 100.000 libertarians who arrives at exactly this conclusion and they make up the weirdest macho bike subculture imageinable

Big "This Scene From The Simpsons" vibes

I am willing to kill us all in a fireball if that's what it takes for me to drive more dangerously and shave 15 seconds off of my trip. You want to kill excellence

The good news is that if they ride a motorcycle like their pfp suggests and they think like this, they probably also refuse to wear a real motorcycle helmet

Yeah I saw that pfp and attitude and immediately thought "Yep that's a future organ donor"
- i doubt there's going to be anything left of him to donate
- According to the nurse operating the dialysis machine when my partner had acute renal failure, hospital staff calls them "donor cycles".
Aprilia riders are always either ATGATT or the Squiddiest Squids.

Driving a car is actually much more dangerous than people realize. You know driving isn't even my job? And it's not working with cars either, which is a very common misconception. Actually my identity is just...car.

The Cult of the Automobile has been an unmitigated disaster for the entire planet

literally the worst invention ever
- the staggering stupidity of the system is hard to even comprehend. Take for example the monarchy which is an objectively silly system

"Communism is when anti-drunk driving laws and mandatory speed limits" --Karl Mark (2 A.D. - 2 A.D.)

you know what I hate that he's right but that is part of communism

I hate driving so much. My first instinct is always to concede to other people (even when I technically have right-of-way) because there's always the possibility that they'll just ignore all rules and common sense due to impatience (like this guy). But then that leads to the truck-driving chuds behind me blasting their horns and trying to overtake me unsafely. Like, I know there are situations where being too slow can also be dangerous, but it's hard to make decisions quickly when every option feels potentially unsafe.

My first instinct is always to concede to other people (even when I technically have right-of-way)
Imo, you should almost always take the right-of-way if you have it. Politeness be damned, the safety of yourself, your passengers, and the other people on the road ought to be the highest priority. And the safest thing you can do on the road is be predictable, which means taking the right-of-way when you have it.
- Yeah, I know. It's just that every time I arrive at an intersection slightly before the other person I'm doubting whether I was really there first and/or if the other person recognizes that. That and a bunch of other situations where I'm trying to process things and it feels safer to just wait (even if it isn't actually).
my reaction time is such that I never feel safe driving. I should not be allowed to do it and it's crazy that I'm expected to
the power to kill everyone around me by fucking up is more responsibility than I would willingly take on

We must cap all American vehicles at 100 mph, make them automatically print you a speeding ticket at 90, and make every lifted truck blow up fatally when the owner gets inside.

make them automatically print you a speeding ticket at 90
what is the point if you're already limiting cars
- I actually like the idea of hard limiting the car above the speed limit, and also ticketing above the limit at a lower margin. It gives a behaviourally corrective ticket for infringements of the limit, but still allows for speeding for some hypothetical evasive manoeuvre (the associated speeding ticket for which could be appealed at a later date).

Being told to slow down slightly when driving and writing Atlas Shrugged as a response.

Car brain is the worst

WHAT'S NEXT, A LICENSE TO MAKE TOAST IN YOUR OWN DAMN TOASTER?

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I kinda love really tenuous connections between some mundane activity and grand societal aspirations. Like, there is a train of thought present, but it's definitely not how the speaker reached that conclusion, they're almost certainly thinking "I agree with these two things, therefore I must retroactively justify why one means the other".

One jumping off the top of my head is Ayn Rand saying she likes smoking because it signifies Man's mastery over fire and nature.

- Truly a beautiful moment. We must collect more.
- also tobacco had mastery over her when you become addicted you loose control and freedom over yourself
I feel like this is a condition brought on by conservatives hating all forms of art but then feeling left out when "artsy" folks to the left of center are able to ascribe meaning to things they might consider mundane otherwise. Because they can't bring themselves to find joy in the same things that the artsy libs do, they only have what's left, and those are often activities or habits which are straight up detrimental to your health. See also their association with red meat consumption and "healthy"/paleo diets, anti-mask-wearing and personal freedom, etc.

@CarsAndComrades@hexbear.net lmao you see this shit?

As George Carlin said, "Anybody driving slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac"

ambition and excellence is when you press a button to make a machine go fast

also anyone who thinks this about overtaking people in their car shouldn't be allowed to drive they clearly have some macho posturing element going on that has no place in operating heavy machinery at great speed

if I can't vroom vroom in my big boy car and go faster than all the LOSERS in their little poor people mobiles, then why would I strive for excellence working at my dad's car dealership?

you can't spell American Excellence without Acceleration!

Anyone who self-identifies with driving down a busy highway is probably going to be coping.

I mean it's a deranged post, but sometimes to make an overtake safely you need to go slightly over the speed limit for a short period of time, especially on single lane roads. It's safer to temporarily speed slightly and be in the oncoming lane of traffic for a shorter period of time, than to stick perfectly to the speed limit and be in the oncoming lane for longer.

The point is that, in that case, you should not be overtaking at all. There are three options, overtake without speeding, overtake with speeding, and don't overtake. In the specific example you've provided, the options ordered in level of danger are overtaking without speeding, overtaking with speeding, and just staying in your lane.
I mean it's a deranged post, but sometimes to make an overtake safely you need to go slightly over the speed limit for a short period of time, especially on single lane roads.
If you have to go over the speed limit to overtake there really isn't a good reason as to why you would be overtaking in the first place
- People where I live speed up when you try to pass them. They could be going 15mph under the limit, dicking around on their phone, swerving wildly, but as soon as you start passing they realize they're going too slow and speed up.
- I mean, not really. Not in a single lane rural road. I'll give an example that happened often when I used to drive.
  You're on a single lane road in the middle of nowhere where the speed limit is 100kph. You're behind a 30 meter long truck on a curvy section of the road where it's rightfully illegal to overtake, and the truck is doing 50-60kph to negotiate the curves. The road then straightens out and it becomes legal to overtake, as indicated by the road markings. The truck, instead of maintaining its speed and letting you past, decides to speed up on the straight bit of road, to 80-90kph. If you were to attempt an overtake without going over the speed limit, you'd probably be in the oncoming lane for 10+ seconds, maybe more, making the overtake very difficult to pull off safely. If you don't attempt an overtake and just stay behind the truck, it will slow down again for the next curvy section and create a small traffic jam behind it, which becomes its own hazard. The safest option is just to pass the truck while going slightly over the speed limit momentarily, say 110kph. Then you only spend 5 seconds in the oncoming lane, get the pass done and can go back to driving at the speed limit. The obvious solution is just that the trucks maintain their speed and allow cars past, but that doesn't always happen. It's not a scenario applicable to city driving or driving on multi lane highways/freeways, but it's something that does happen on single lane roads.
  Yes it does seem counterintuitive at first, and yes I hated making these kind of passes everytime, but it was the best option.
It may be safer but it's illegal and the cops wouldn't hesitate to write you a ticket

This was a thing I always questioned as a kid actually.

Surely if you don't want people breaking the speed limit, you could just make it so vehicles literally can't do that.

Limiting exactly at the max speed limit would make a lot of overtakes of slower vehicles more unsafe. Limiting the speed at slightly above the maximum speed limit is a good idea though. I know in Japan cars are usually limited to 112mph/180kph on public roads, though I think that's a bit too high. It's a good place to start though.
- Limiting exactly at the max speed limit would make a lot of overtakes of slower vehicles more unsafe.
  Alternatively of course people just wouldn't do that because they can't.

Love to have my suspicions confirmed that some people literally see driving on the highway as a drag race and perceive me going too slow as weakness which must be vanquished

Overtaking does require going pretty fast to be done quickly, so they have an overall point that speed limiters set at the speed limit would de facto prevent overtaking. The rest of it is gibberish, and personally I’m fine with banning cars entirely let alone this quibbling lib minutia about speed limits but let’s be honest and say no overtaking with limiters

If you can't overtake safely within the speed limit you can't overtake safely.
- So people cannot overtake. Just say it instead of hiding behind riddles

I feel like many people in this thread have 0 experience operating a vehicle that is not your standard issue car. I'm obviously coming at this from a cycling standpoint, with rather limited ability to instantly apply more speed once I've hit a certain one due to a factor known as "my legs", this just means you operate it differently though. Same would apply if you fundamentally changed how cars or traffic works.

i can drive motorbikes and forklifts
don't actually have a car license funnily enough
- Deep Hexbear lore: WoofWoof91 is forklift certified

Want to know what ELSE kills excellence? Giving preferential treatment to white people. It sabotages hard-working minorities just so white people can feel good about themselves And if they need to be mollycoddled by the government to stay competitive with minorities, then I guess they're not the master race after all.

"BUT MUH GENETIC SUPERIORITY

most advanced case of car brain in history

Death to America

They're br*tish

IF I CAN PASS YOU I AM BETTER THAN YOU the rate of accident goes higher exponentially with speed

I can't wait for the west's century of humiliation to really kick up, too many idiots need to be cleared of their delusions of grandeur before it leads to another Holocaust.
- the holocaust was the death throes of German delusions of grandeur

You know this is one of those assholes that speeds past all the other cars when a lane ends to try to cut off the first car in the next lane over instead of zipper merging like a sensible person. I hate those bastards

“The only success in life I feel is when my vroom vroom motorbike blows the doors off of the npc wagon”

speaks to the amount of autonomy people feel over their lives, i guess.

having speed limiters would be a good idea
the limit should be ~10 over though
sometimes you need some leeway for safety

we should return to there being a man in front of the car waving a flag that the driver has to follow
reject modernity return to tradition
most of everyone would just do 10 over, rendering the whole idea pretty moot
- the idea is pretty moot to begin with tbh
  50cc mopeds here have restrictors on them, and pretty much every teenager immediately gets it removed
  
  sometimes because being stuck to exactly the speed limit is pretty dangerous
  if people behind you are doing 35 until they have you in front of them, you get to enjoy having cars uncomfortably close behind you while they get increasingly annoyed until they can overtake

I don't want to kill ambition, I just want to [redact] this guy.

Nurbergring Mindset

what a 180, I was on their side cause I assumed they were talking about some tesla "safety" feature or something lmao

The tech works pretty well but I've found that it will fairly regularly pick up a sign on an off ramp or service road or construction sign that's been there since 2009 and tell you the wrong speed limit. So I guess if it were to automatically limit the car's speed we'd have a bunch of people driving 25 on the freeway. Anyway usually there's also a limiter that you can turn on and have it follow the speed limit.

We all laugh at this, but a few months ago we had a strugglesession on wether on or not you should be allowed to go 50 mph on bike lanes (it's okay, it's on an e-scooter)

Wait really? Do you have a link, I must've missed it.
- Sadly no, it's been ages

I dont get it. It’s like both of them dont know how to drive.