• chris@l.roofo.cc
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    11 hours ago

    What? No! Driving faster is not safer. What kind of logic is that? If someone does something dangerous because I drive the speed limit they are unsafe not me.

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      6 hours ago

      Certainly it is safer if everyone everyone drives the speed limit, lowering the speed of traffic. But that’s not realistically what happens. I’m talking about when you are around other cars that are all going over the limit. The difference in speed between vehicles is also dangerous. When you drive slower than traffic you become a hazard and bottleneck that raises the danger of everyone near you. Better to be alive than “right”.

      The title is clickbait, its really about difference in speed: https://seasia.co/2025/09/05/driving-slower-is-actually-more-dangerous-than-driving-fast

      Challenge your assumptions.

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        43 minutes ago

        So the article says the problem are people that won’t follow the rules. People who overtake and go way too fast. I will not enable their behavior.

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      10 hours ago

      I remember reading a story a while back. Couple lumberjacks had a serious accident, so while one guy was bleeding out in the back seat, the driver was doing 100+ and the third guy was on the phone with the cops trying to get a police escort.

      They ran into a Karen like you, who decided to make sure they went the speed limit. Guy in the back seat died as a result.

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        42 minutes ago

        The fuck you talking about? I never said I’d actively block anyone from overtaking me and the traffic won’t flow at 100mph. So what the fuck is your point? Start turning on your brain before calling me a Karen.

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        8 hours ago

        You know, and I know you know, that that’s never what is meant by saying it’s “safer to travel at the speed of traffic”. It’s tragic to be sure, but it’s not a counter argumement against obeying the law.

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          6 hours ago

          It is safer to travel at the speed of traffic. The guy I responded to clearly said that he would rather be a rolling roadblock following speed limits like an idiot, instead of travelling with traffic.