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Originally Posted by Schneed10
As you said, it's a flow of traffic thing. It has nothing to do with the law, it has everything to do with what's safe.
When traffic is moving at nearly the same speed, the space differential between cars remains constant and predictable. When you have people going 15 mph above OR below the flow of traffic, you have a dangerous situation.
I don't care who "feels" they can control a car at 85 or 95. It doesn't matter. I feel I can too. What makes it dangerous is the fact that they're going 15 mph faster than everyone else, and when somebody else on the road makes a mistake and merges without looking, all of a sudden that 15 mph speed differential becomes very dangerous. The driver has to react to the mistake, and at 95 must suddenly make some sort of move to avoid.
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You're assuming that everybody is going the speed limit. We're talking about how high over the limit you go, not how much faster than the flow of traffic. I know that in a lot of NoVA if you're not at least 10 over you risk being rear-ended.