Follow uip to California Speed limits
Last week in "Roads and Routes" was a thread about California Speed Limits and here is what the guys in the California Highway Patrol Office told me. I made a comment regarding lane usage and today...
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beemerphile1 wrote:OK and raising the speed limit does not solve the differential in speed among the vehicles that can already go 70 mph. They still all travel 65 to 90+
Accidents happen because of differences in speed. The safest environment is when all vehicles are traveling the same direction and at the same speed. California needs to figure that out.
It would not hurt for them to just slow a bit when passing. Or if the lead person going 70 would move to the right(after passing the truck going 62) so the 80+ can go by. In CA it is common to have a stack of 80+ cars in line (all tailgating like it was Talladega) that all want to pass so they can exceed the 70 limit.
Increasing the speed of trucks just increases the impact when the accident occurs.
JMHO
