Anyone that doesnt agree is welcome to drive the I17/I10 and/or 202/101/60 any time. No one does the speed limit, 5-6 lane highways, wild lane changes and very bad decisions all around. It has made me a worse driver overall.
In practice sure, cause people just want or need to go faster. In all reality speeding doesnt really get you anywhere faster. 10-20 miles per hour faster on a 1 hour trip isnt netting a lot of time. Speed limits are set based actual science to keep people alive, sometimes they are completely arbitrary though.
Agree they are safer, technically, youre just more likely to die from a collision on the freeway than street level. Probably because there is no cross traffic.
I wish staying to the right worked better. On Rt 60 there is a lot of on/off ramp traffic and some want to be in the left lane cut off by the midlane traffic where the right is actually where a lot more accidents happen.
It’s worth bringing up, you’re much more likely to get in a collision on the freeway if you’re going slower than traffic, compared to faster than traffic.
Yes, for sure, which makes everyone more likely to crash by forcing them to speed up. Those crashes are also more likely to end with more injuries, or fatalities. This makes me a worse driver overall…
I’ve noticed that Arizona has a lot of traffic and a lot of very aggressive drivers
Anyone that doesnt agree is welcome to drive the I17/I10 and/or 202/101/60 any time. No one does the speed limit, 5-6 lane highways, wild lane changes and very bad decisions all around. It has made me a worse driver overall.
Speed limit is meaningless on freeways
In practice sure, cause people just want or need to go faster. In all reality speeding doesnt really get you anywhere faster. 10-20 miles per hour faster on a 1 hour trip isnt netting a lot of time. Speed limits are set based actual science to keep people alive, sometimes they are completely arbitrary though.
Freeways are also a lot safer. Just stay in the right couple of lanes and go the speed of traffic. The lifted trucks can go 90 in the carpool lanes.
Agree they are safer, technically, youre just more likely to die from a collision on the freeway than street level. Probably because there is no cross traffic.
I wish staying to the right worked better. On Rt 60 there is a lot of on/off ramp traffic and some want to be in the left lane cut off by the midlane traffic where the right is actually where a lot more accidents happen.
It’s worth bringing up, you’re much more likely to get in a collision on the freeway if you’re going slower than traffic, compared to faster than traffic.
Yes, for sure, which makes everyone more likely to crash by forcing them to speed up. Those crashes are also more likely to end with more injuries, or fatalities. This makes me a worse driver overall…
You probably said it correctly, but, collisions on surface streets are less fatal because of cross streets?
Freeways have much fewer collisions per mile driven by a LOT
It’s too freaking hot and people drive too fast to get back indoors.
During the winter it calms down but then there’s the snow birds which introduces different traffic.
former Angelinos say AZ worse than LA!
Having driven in both… They’re fucking nuts. LA traffic is insane.
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