"driving" in the left lane. YES it's illegal.
FL law will now ticket you for not getting out of the left lane.
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Until 1955 there were no speed limits outside incorporated areas.
The porch sitters said that people drove too fast fast and there ought to be a law again it. So they made the speed limits 65 on roads and highways. The State set the speed limits everywhere including towns. They wanted to make it 75, I think but a few type from some town and principally Knoxville said let's make it 80% of what most people drive. Essentially it was about revenue generation. In most towns even in the seventies the fine was 2.00. Counties and Towns got the Legislature to allow them to add on court Cost etc even though no one went to Court for a 2.00 fine for speeding. I don't remember what the fine is right now but it is low. Court costs etc make it about 125.00.
It was and still is used for walnut paneling,fine leather chairs and so in the Judge chambers and for things like parties. I can site if necessary but don't ask me to. The State has reigned in some of this. Interstate speed limit was 75 when it cam along. The proposed 100mph limit the design of the Interstates was never seriously considered. Then Gerald Ford made the National Speed limit 55.
Remember I can't drive 55? If you went 70 which was 15 mph over but 5 mph less than the moth before you were charged with reckless driving and stiffer fine and 3 points on your record. The Insurance Industry was partially or all responsible.
They jacked up your insurance rates a lot for driving 5 mph less or ore than the old speed limit.
And out west well...so on and on.
There is no magic in speed limit numbers or morality.
We could make the speed limit 45 and stop all wrecks above 45 and all wrecks below 45 if there was.
There are signs in Ontario that say Safety through Enforcement. I always though there should be a picture of Joe Stalin and the hammer and sickle with it too.
It is nigh impossible to drive 80kph on some Canadian hwys which is arrow straight, and no traffic to speak of or use there wasn't without dozing off. I bet there are many who drive off the road. And 25 kph and and a cop waiting for you to go 2mph over in many places. I think I could run faster than that.
Same here out west on I40, you can see the San Francisco Range but it never get any closer, it seems, On big curve in the road is all I remember. I wonder how many drive strait at that curve into the sand.
Typical speeds on Interstates, somewhere, average 90mph or better. Cops drive even faster except when someone complains and there is still a 55mph speed limit where it use to be 75 on Monteagle.
I rambled around a good bit here but point is there is no morality in speed limits and fining to force conformity. Only in areas where excessive speed is a hazard and idiots refuse to dr4ive reasonable and prudent speeds and school zones Schools have no business being built on noisy major throughways.
I can never drive faster than the car in front of me or as is the case today the roadblock of semis.
The porch sitters said that people drove too fast fast and there ought to be a law again it. So they made the speed limits 65 on roads and highways. The State set the speed limits everywhere including towns. They wanted to make it 75, I think but a few type from some town and principally Knoxville said let's make it 80% of what most people drive. Essentially it was about revenue generation. In most towns even in the seventies the fine was 2.00. Counties and Towns got the Legislature to allow them to add on court Cost etc even though no one went to Court for a 2.00 fine for speeding. I don't remember what the fine is right now but it is low. Court costs etc make it about 125.00.
It was and still is used for walnut paneling,fine leather chairs and so in the Judge chambers and for things like parties. I can site if necessary but don't ask me to. The State has reigned in some of this. Interstate speed limit was 75 when it cam along. The proposed 100mph limit the design of the Interstates was never seriously considered. Then Gerald Ford made the National Speed limit 55.
Remember I can't drive 55? If you went 70 which was 15 mph over but 5 mph less than the moth before you were charged with reckless driving and stiffer fine and 3 points on your record. The Insurance Industry was partially or all responsible.
They jacked up your insurance rates a lot for driving 5 mph less or ore than the old speed limit.
And out west well...so on and on.
There is no magic in speed limit numbers or morality.
We could make the speed limit 45 and stop all wrecks above 45 and all wrecks below 45 if there was.
There are signs in Ontario that say Safety through Enforcement. I always though there should be a picture of Joe Stalin and the hammer and sickle with it too.
It is nigh impossible to drive 80kph on some Canadian hwys which is arrow straight, and no traffic to speak of or use there wasn't without dozing off. I bet there are many who drive off the road. And 25 kph and and a cop waiting for you to go 2mph over in many places. I think I could run faster than that.
Same here out west on I40, you can see the San Francisco Range but it never get any closer, it seems, On big curve in the road is all I remember. I wonder how many drive strait at that curve into the sand.
Typical speeds on Interstates, somewhere, average 90mph or better. Cops drive even faster except when someone complains and there is still a 55mph speed limit where it use to be 75 on Monteagle.
I rambled around a good bit here but point is there is no morality in speed limits and fining to force conformity. Only in areas where excessive speed is a hazard and idiots refuse to dr4ive reasonable and prudent speeds and school zones Schools have no business being built on noisy major throughways.
I can never drive faster than the car in front of me or as is the case today the roadblock of semis.
