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Speeding on roads, highways, etc.

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Why do certain people feel an urge to speed, or weave in and out of traffic on the highway. Why do people like going fast ? All it is, is speed and acceleration. I always wanted to know why people like going fast. Not that I don't, cuz I do.
Why do I feel the urge to do 100 in a 65 ? It's just speed.
 
If you have 400 hp under the hood, or even 300, you tend to like to take advantage of that power.

Sometimes I enjoy driving my 140 hp slow-mobile because it keeps me out of trouble.

High horsepower and public roads don't mix, unless you are very strong willed or like having that power just so you can say so.


People also go through phases, younger drivers are the ones to weave and speed in and out of traffic but they tend to grow out of it as they get older and realize how easy it is to potentially kill someone or your self.
 
Sometimes it's just nice to let it loose once in a while...as long as you aren't endangering anyone else, whether they be passengers or other drivers.
 
Originally posted by: amdhunter
Sometimes it's just nice to let it loose once in a while...as long as you aren't endangering anyone else, whether they be passengers or other drivers.
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Originally posted by: amdhunter
Today I gunned the car HARD from 0 - 120 or so and I shifted perfectly all the way up before running out of road. At that point, I slowed down back to highway speeds, and cruised in 6th gear ~55MPH and stood there until I got out of the highway.
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Hypocrite.
 
Originally posted by: SketchMaster
Originally posted by: amdhunter
Sometimes it's just nice to let it loose once in a while...as long as you aren't endangering anyone else, whether they be passengers or other drivers.
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Originally posted by: amdhunter
Today I gunned the car HARD from 0 - 120 or so and I shifted perfectly all the way up before running out of road. At that point, I slowed down back to highway speeds, and cruised in 6th gear ~55MPH and stood there until I got out of the highway.
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Hypocrite.
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how? He claimed he likes to let loose once in awhile. We all do.

If road conditions are good, and traffic isn't horrible, I enjoy letting loose every now and then and gunning it for awhile when I know there is a stretch without places for trappers to catch me. Then again, I am also limited by my V6 '97 Dakota, so speeding won't be reckless for me. 😉 When it rains, I'm one of the ones who typically sticks to right around the speed limit, or at least the flow of traffic and occasionally passing in the left lane is someone is going too slow. Having a light back end and RWD makes you extremely cautious when the road isn't dry. Especially when there is wind. I swear I can feel the back end lose traction from time and time... really gets the heart racing.
but if its dry and there is room, nothing wrong with going 80-90 on the highway. I say that because that's about as much as I can get. I can top 100, but if I have overdrive on (always, i don't like the thought of burning even MORE gas)... then the speedometer climbs very slowly after 90.. hell takes a little time to get from 85 to 90 even. And again, that light back end makes me cautious as soon as wind picks up even on dry roads. Maybe I'm just overly paranoid, but I never trust the traction of my rear wheels. Something about the Dakota just being way to light in the back. I feel better with the 250lbs of sand I have in the back, but I don't like driving with them year round due to the extra weight requiring more gas. Although I don't know how I'd go about it, I should really test to see the difference with and without sand.
 
I haven't had the urge to really speed for almost 20 years. Then I bought an Acura TL-S, and I really have to fight the urge, particularly around corners. I've had cars with more power, but never one that handled like this, and it's funny how the car is almost begging me to drive it hard.
 
Originally posted by: zerocool84
Speeding is something that everyone does and no one will admit to.
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Nah, I'll freely admit to it! It's pretty much the only law I willingly break. But, I also believe in risk management and I'm very selective when deciding just how much "fun" I want to have. If all of the variables line up just right.... straight road, no traffic, daytime, etc., I can guarantee I won't be near the speed limit. Unless I'm in my truck, which isn't really fun to drive fast at all. Not that it can even go fast in the first place.
 
I've mellowed out a lot compared to my younger days. I used to be a weaver, hard acceleration, and braking within inches of your arse. It's a miracle I've never been in an accident in the last 12yrs.

For me, it has something to do with exploring, being adventurous and finding the physical limitations of what's at hand. Knowing the limits of what your vehicle can't and cannot do, it's handling characteristics, is very important IMO. Once you know you and your car's limitations, you tend to want to push the envelope, so to speak. It's part of wanting to sway away from the norm of your daily routine. I know I look forward to getting off of work and look forward to my ride home or wherever. I am a driver.

Speed give you an adrenaline rush, akin to getting a buzz over alcohol, or a high over candies 😛

 
It's the opposite with me. I speed more in my Camry than I do in the Cobra, as long as we are talking about regular day to day driving with traffic and not taking advantage of an empty stretch of road.

The Camry is so weak and underpowered that I feel the need to maintain a higher speed so I have momentum on my side in order to stay with traffic and not have people riding my ass or swerving violently around me simply because their car is faster. I can stop quickly if I have to, but getting that speed back takes much longer. I fear having to brake suddenly or reduce my speed drastically due to lacking acceleration to quickly gain back lost speed. I have to plan maneuvers well in advance of other vehicles or I am stuck with the scraps on the floor after everyone else has made their move.

The Cobra is the opposite, I have endless acceleration and feel more confident in my ability to alter my speed on a whim on my own terms, and don't feel like I need a "head start" or feel like I am a bottleneck with my foot to the floor and going nowhere. I can put distance between myself and other traffic with ease and not feel like I'm being rushed. With the ability to quickly come up on traffic in front, there is more discretion on when to floor it and when not to, and even though there is more power, I am more cautious about using it.

Thus, in the Camry I am doing 100 in the left lane and nervously watching my rear view. In the Cobra I'm doing 55-65 in the right lane with the windows down just enjoying the sun and the exhaust notes not really giving a flying f**k about what the rest of traffic is doing.

Used to be an excessive lane changer and ride within inches of bumpers, but after a while you realize it doesn't save any time, makes you look like a dumb ass when you are the the 10th light with the same person next to you (or even behind where you started), and you realize it averages out and you aren't actually getting anywhere faster. It's far more effective just to leave 10 mins early than to leave 10 mins late and try to make up for it.

These days I enjoy 0-45 bursts and a kick in the seat and heel-toe down shifting into a banked off ramp at 55-75 mph more than excessively high speeds.
 
i've only sped twice. once to just have some fun when the road was empty(i got up to 120-130 range and started slowing down as soon as i saw a car fairly close to me). and another on my way home. going 65-75mph on I90/92/94 back home for +800 miles would take forever. that and traffic was doing 90+(i had a cop, a mini van, and a semi pass me like i was doing 60). i stayed around 80-95mph in 5th to have some saving grace of fuel economy with all the stuf i had in the rear.(i was hovering around 3-3.5k, out of a 16.5-16.8g tank, i only got around 190-210 miles to a tank)
 
My boost gauge... it mocks me. It says "Look at me... why am I hanging out here in the vacuum zone? Just a little more, and I'll be past the 0. You can do it. C'mon, it'll feel gooooood."
 
I like to go fast, I guess I get it from my dad who's always been a speeder.

I use to intentionally go fast right after I got my car but I've gotten over it. Now when I'm going fast I'm usually just trying to keep up with traffic and don't even realize that the speed limit was a few notches ago. For example: Yesterday I was going with the flow of traffic and noticed that I was both lagging behind the cars in front of me and that I had cars on my ass. So I glance down at the speed-o only to realize we were going 65+ in a school zone. Lucky for all of us all the schools are on spring break this week but still its a 45 zone.

Twice I've nearly lost control of the car. Once I was pulling out into the street and my rear hit an ice patch and went sideways. Nobody was around to see it but I was so embarrassed that I whipped it right back into my apartment and stayed in. The other was lack of patients and sanity, it nearly cost me. I was going to meet my parents for lunch and I was running late. My exit was coming up so I flipped my blinker on but traffic wasn't budging. So like an idiot I gunned it and got ahead of traffic. Ran into trouble when I hit the apex of the ramp @ 90 and the rear end let lose. Thankfully God was watching over me and I was able to get it under control and see my parents again. Its been two years since that happened and I haven't done anything like that since.
 
Originally posted by: nakedfrog
My boost gauge... it mocks me. It says "Look at me... why am I hanging out here in the vacuum zone? Just a little more, and I'll be past the 0. You can do it. C'mon, it'll feel gooooood."
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Yeah I have that problem.

Another problem I have is that at low boost ~1-6psi my wastegaste flutters, the only remedy for that annoying noise is more throttle!
 
Originally posted by: nakedfrog
My boost gauge... it mocks me. It says "Look at me... why am I hanging out here in the vacuum zone? Just a little more, and I'll be past the 0. You can do it. C'mon, it'll feel gooooood."
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Mmm pedal to the floor at 2000 PRM, boost gauge snaps the needle, and gas gauge goes to the E.
 
Sometimes just maintaining stasis with the surrounding cars feels like you aren't getting anywhere.
When you pass other cars you feel more like you're making progress rather than floating idly amidst traffic.
I'm less compelled to speed when the traffic is sparse.
 
Not worth the risk to me anymore. I may speed on the highway to keep up with traffic, but never on roads by myself. I just drive the speed limit to about speed limit + 5 mph, and that's it. Nothing excessive.
 
Originally posted by: FeuerFrei
Sometimes just maintaining stasis with the surrounding cars feels like you aren't getting anywhere.
When you pass other cars you feel more like you're making progress rather than floating idly amidst traffic.
I'm less compelled to speed when the traffic is sparse.
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Yeah, when there is decent traffic, I find myself constantly in the left lane passing people, and tend to either set the pace of a pack of cars or get myself close to the front, but I hate making a break in front of the pack because then it's all open road and I have a thing of keeping with traffic versus being in the open, so the law won't come after me. I've enjoyed when the flow of traffic was right about 80 in a 65, on a two lane state highway but made sure to not go faster than them... and sometimes I'll get into the music and slightly let off the gas and end up going slower and then I push back up... that's the one thing I hate about traffic though, when others change pace, it screws up my cruise control, so if its real packed I just keep my foot on the pedal and keep the cruise control on but not set, until I get through the traffic. That's why I like being towards of the front of the pack so my cruise control becomes effective, locking in the pace for awhile.

If its sparse traffic, I usually won't speed, but depending on the section of road I may, because I usually know where the law likes to station up to trap. Sometimes I just zoom by most sparse traffic because I'm really uppity and feel bored.
 
There's something to be said for safety as well. Myself I can't stand being boxed in with no room to maneuver, or stuck in someone's blind spot. I would much rather take my chances with the 5-0 and speed a bit to get away from the pack than be boxed in at 80mph on the interstate.
 
I never speed on normal roads because there's no point to it since there are traffic lights to stop you anyway. I find it funny that some guy would speed past me then 20 seconds later I come to the same stop lights as him...

On highways, I stay to the far right lane and at the speed limit when I'm driving to work, since I'm in no hurry to get there ;P. On my way home, however, I'm a maniac and drive 20-30 MPH above the limits.
 
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