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I’ve seen people get pulled over for doing 60 in a 65 on a highway where everyone is doing 70-85, because it’s dangerously slow with only 2 lanes.

And it’s 6 lanes because of how much traffic there is, forcing people to weave around someone going 10-30mph below the flow of traffic is dangerous.

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Well yeah, they were going below the speed limit. That creates dangerous conditions.

If they were doing 65 in a 65 and everyone else was doing 85, the cops can’t do shit because they’re literally following the law.

And if my going the speed limit is “dangerous”, then it’s the regulations that are wrong. Not me. They should change the speed limit if it’s a problem for me to follow the posted laws. I’m not the one causing danger, the law is.

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they were going below the speed limit. That creates dangerous conditions.

If they were doing 65 in a 65 and everyone else was doing 85, the cops can’t do shit because they’re literally following the law.

Do you think speed limits are an exact number that has to be matched at all times?

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Legally that’s literally what it is - a cop has the legal authority to pull you over for going 1 mph over the speed limit and give you a ticket for it. Obviously in the real world the enforcement of speed limits is way different from the actual letter of the law, but it’s really no trouble for me to just match my speed to the speed limit. It’s not like speeding actually saves you that much time.

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