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Speed kills. It’s the message that we’ve had driven home for decades by law enforcement and the government. But it’s time to have a serious discussion about speed limits in Australia without the hysterics and put some cold, hard facts into the debate.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

I've never complained about being behind a car that's doing the speed limit in the right lane. In fact, they're ideal because your get there in the fastest possible time using the least possible fuel.

A car in the rightmost lane doing the speed limit – by definition – cannot be an obstruction.

What pisses me off is cars with overreading speedos that think they're doing the speed limit. Everyone should check theirs. 100% of new cars are wrong.

I'd happily sit on 130 if that's the posted speed. That's about 4500RPM in top gear for me... which is probably not the best for economy.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

What part of the "keep left unless overtaking" don't you like? 😅

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

I'm always overtaking a line of cars doing 98 in a 100.