The Whining and Bitching Thread
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Krow
Garbage Connoisseur
Heh I got a warning from a state trooper for going ~80 in a 65 a while back, in a company truck no less. I've been trying to be on my best behavior because I know if I get pulled over again I'll eat a ticket and court costs.
TechnicalBarbarity
Poser Disposer
Never got a speeding ticket(at least from what i remember). but i've hit over 120mph on wide open/empty freeways many a time.
Krow
Garbage Connoisseur
Man I feel like I live in a different world sometimes. It'd be nice to have places to really step on the gas around here but there just isnt. People that drive THAT fast around here dont get speeding tickets, they get roadside crosses.
Dak
mentat
I've been over 100 exactly once in my life, super late at night on an open stretch of I-95. Been up to 90+ a bit out west. No tickets for those. I got a ticket in VA for 60 in a bullshit 45 though. Fuckin speed trap.
TechnicalBarbarity
Poser Disposer
i wonder what the freeways out there look like. They're pretty much big wide straight shot highways out here. I definitely would never drive that fast anywhere else, except the track obviously 
We have this one wicked highways out here up Angeles Crest that is known for shit like that
i dont drive fast anywhere where there are homes or pedestrians walking around. To a point where people probably think i shouldn't be in the car that i drive. I also never drive fast when there is a passenger in my car.
We have this one wicked highways out here up Angeles Crest that is known for shit like thati dont drive fast anywhere where there are homes or pedestrians walking around. To a point where people probably think i shouldn't be in the car that i drive. I also never drive fast when there is a passenger in my car.
Krow
Garbage Connoisseur
They wind up and down the mountains and they're pretty poorly maintained. Interstate routes are better but the US routes can be rough as fuck in WV. Blindly following a gps here will bring you to roads that havent existed for years.
Satanstoenail
My Larpstyle determines my Derpstyle
rms
Active Member
they must read UM
surprised at how fast you dudes take your cars. Going above 85 made me nervous as fuck for my engine
The Ozzman
Melted by feels
they must read UM
surprised at how fast you dudes take your cars. Going above 85 made me nervous as fuck for my engine
When I had a BMW I think I took it to 95 once but I typically don't take my cars past 90 and that's only when there's no one on the highway (lol but Ozz how did you get a ticket amirite?!)
zabu of nΩd
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I never go 10+ above the limit except on the rare occasion of absent-mindedness. They ticket like nazis around here.
Smaller roads here are usually either residential or swampy, so you can't really go too fast on them. The police here will ticket almost anyone who drives more than five miles over the speed limit if they catch you on the interstate.
You can do 90+ on most of the toll roads here if you pay attention to your surroundings because there are no places for them to hide due to the elevated design of most expressways in this state.
You can do 90+ on most of the toll roads here if you pay attention to your surroundings because there are no places for them to hide due to the elevated design of most expressways in this state.
Satanstoenail
My Larpstyle determines my Derpstyle
I got our shitty Forf Focus wagon hire car up to 200 kph on the autobahn in Germany this year. It was pretty scary though at that speed. I usually cruised at 150-170 kph if possible.
viewerfromnihil
Vein-Marbled Tower
Legitimately surprised it went that fast. In any case, driving fast in shit cars is scary. I've taken my Hyundai Accent back home to 90 mph a few times and was it shook and screamed--not like a performance car, not like it knew what it was doing; more like it just saw a predator and was about to shit its pants before it played dead. I was on the Autobahn the other day with some little VW Up! at 150kph. I now know why it has the exclamation point in it's name.
Dak
mentat
I went 110 in my first car not too long after I bought it, a Civic coupe, and everything over 100 was scary. Not only because I felt the car get less in contact with the road, but from like 95-110 was so slow in acceleration that I probably went 2-3 miles during that time, and I was worried about a lurking trooper yanking my license. Once I hit 110 and it was pretty much topping out I slowed down as safely as I could.
Satanstoenail
My Larpstyle determines my Derpstyle
The Focus did it pretty easily, it just felt like the margin for error was ridiculously small at that speed.
The holiday before that I got our big camper up to 165 kph, that was a strange feeling. We also almost got taken out by a crazy Audi sports SUV thing whilst trying to overtake a truck in the fast lane. Guy must have been doing 280kph or more, he just appeared out of nowhere and all of a sudden he was next to me in the tiny emergency lane screaming at me and beeping his horn. I was doing about 150 and I had to swerve almost into the truck I was trying to overtake so he didn't hit us. Scared the fucking shit out of me.
viewerfromnihil
Vein-Marbled Tower
In Germany? Germans are generally pretty easy going, cool people, but as drivers they're fucking assholes. It's like it's their instinct to drive aggressively and brake at the last possible moment. Every time I'm in a car with a German, I'm stomping on an imaginary brake. It's funny talking to my students about cultural differences. The cultural parallel they offer to guns in America is driving.
Dak
mentat
I'm far more scared of other licensed drivers than other legal gun owners.
Satanstoenail
My Larpstyle determines my Derpstyle
Yeah in Germany. And yeah I know what you mean haha. My wife’s lovely old mother was tailgating like a demon in her tiny car.
