There’s a nice little app on F-Droid called Speedr.
It checks your speed against what open street map has set as the speed limit for the road. It will record how often, how long, how much you drove over the speed limit during your drive.
It will then use that data to estimate the amount of time you actually saved.
I regularly drive ~15 mph over the speed limit to keep up with traffic. Do a long drive of more than eight hours at a time around every other month. In a year I saved under 20 minutes.
Maybe a more aggressive driver could get more savings, but as far as I’m concerned I’ll just leave a little earlier.
That math ain’t mathing.
Assuming a “long drive” is at least 200 miles and most of the trip is on a highway without a lot of slow spots, you should save much more than 20 minutes a year regularly going 15 mph over.
With a lower highway speed limit of 60 mph, going 15 over will put you at 75 mph. In an hour, you’re 15 miles further down the road going 75 than 60 and it will take you 15 more minutes going 60 to get to that same spot.
Specific conditions will change the numbers, obviously. I’d consider both a few hundred mile drive and driving through NYC during rush hour to be long drives and they’ll have vastly different stats. By all means leave earlier but that Speedr app seems like it’s mathing wrong.
I tried to find the app but couldn’t. Are you sure it’s the right name ?
Bro people I drive with SLAM on the breaks to obey traffic lights as they’re changing sometimes like, you’re gonna get rear ended doing that just go through the yellow. The green light is delayed ffs.
I know my vehicle’s limits, other drivers do not.
The second I stopped to think about that for a second when I got my license, I realized that goes for other people too.
Just because the combination of my vehicle and driving could have gotten through that gap, doesn’t mean yours can.
So I’ll wait, just please actually go when the light changes and you’re 3 car lengths into the intersection…
Everybody just wants to get where they’re going safely. If you’re always behind slow drivers you need to leave a little earlier because if your schedule is that tight any little thing is going to make you late.
This how I be shouting at other drivers lol
Don’t think I should go before you just because I have the right of way at a four way uncontrolled intersection.
There’s a difference between driving fast and being ready to move when an opportunity appears. It mainly comes down to watching traffic far enough down the road so you anticipate where the gap will be. That then allows you to smoothly merge into it.
Yea but my dad telling me to drive out on main street from a stop sign on a cold engine the moment he sees a space that is more than 5 meters really doesn’t help me focus on the far-away gaps lol
If you’d spent less time talking, you could have gone like three times already!
Most people die between 40-60.
Speeding isn’t dangerous. The ability to make smart decisions about when to speed is.
I think you mean, the inability.
I think they meant disability.
You don’t really hear about accidents for going slow… just saying.
you don’t hear about the dude who was pulling an insurance scam doing 15 in the lane next to the fast lane on a 12 lane interstate who got plowed into and nearly died because you gotta do at least 30 to get out of that scam with minor injuries? do you live in a cave?
if cars drove under the speed limit and not over all the time. there would have been plenty of time to go. speeding is inconsiderate to other users and makes everyones travel worse
There’s a lady that goes 30km under the speed limit on the highway during rush hour. In front of her clear traffic, behind her, grid lock.
Not going the speed limit creates the traffic and makes travel worse.
Maybe your local government could do proper planning so that convenient and timely public transit would offer her a viable alternative to driving? Let’s not blame individuals for systemic problems.
That is illegal where I live.
What’s the range allowed? There are plenty of places with minimums, but many have such a wide window that they may as well not bother.
Driving to the conditions is also vague. Some people feel safe driving near the limit in snow, some think you have to go 40 under. Now that also depends on if you have snow tires or not too. If you don’t, you shouldn’t be trying to reach the limit unless the road is clear and dry. But even traction is reduced once it gets near freezing regardless.
In the end, it’s a judgment call, and pulling the person over is only ever going to make the situation worse. They won’t suddenly start going faster or find a different route the next day.
Highway is 100-110, and slow moving I think is 40km/h under the limit. No slow moving or bikes allowed on the highway in the city.
It’s part of the Can-A-mex corridor, or used to be until the ring road was built.
Also, snow, plenty of reasons to only go 40km/h in some conditions, going under the limit is illegal only when you’re truly limiting traffic, and that’s always a judgment call.
"Under the speed limit’ is also 59 (assuming 60 is the limit)… Not just 30…
Speeding also means 1km/h over as well, you saying a 2km/h difference is what makes something safe vs unsafe…?
No it’s what makes it legal vs illegal
Plenty of people dangerously overtake to go just 5kmph faster. That was my point but it seems I should have stated it plainly.
Self driving cars will be so much fun if they become the norm
No, we’ll be forced to work in them, too.
It’ll be just like doing homework on the school bus!!!
