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You don't understand, I have to turn left in 25 km and what if I can't get back into my lane after I let you pass and I miss my turn. I'm not a confident driver so I am going to do what's safest and best for me and everyone else can just accept it. I'm going fast enough at 5km over the posted speed limit and you can just slow down, life isn't a race unless I need it to be.
-The asshole I encounter daily on my commute.
turn left WHERE. ON A HIGHWAY?? WAAAAAAAAAAAA
My highway has lights because the gov't was too cheap for clovers in the 90s.
They meant the left turn at the very end of the hifhway /s
The more I read about this asshole character, the more reasonable he got.
25km seems like a lot to not let someone pass
Oh, well I guess I can understand that.
Wait, the guy is going 5km over the posted speed limit? What are you complaining about then?
I guess it's true what they say, if you run into one asshole, they're an asshole. If you constantly run into assholes, you're the asshole.
Sounds reasonable until you realize 90km/h is an arbitrary number that doesn't mean anything, and having someone purposely impede all traffic behind them because of their lack of skill behind the wheel will cause more accidents than they think they're preventing.
My dude, I will guarantee you that the amount of thought that was put into that 90km/h for that portion of the road far exceeds the average amount of thought you put into what every speed limit should be for everywhere you travel.
And even if you're right, what do we do now? Do all drivers know your thoughts and should stick to your proposed speed limits because you're right? Should everyone driving set their own mental speed limit and follow it? You don't get to a better outcome in either of those situations.
If you don't like the speed limit, lobby the people in charge to change it. Come up with the data necessary and present your case. But until then, some drivers will choose to follow the law, stick to the current speed limit and not risk their license being suspended (or getting into car wrecks), so you should learn to deal with that.
Trust me, I'm from a part of Europe where people think like you most of the time. "fuck the speed limit, I know better, I've been driving for X years". You know what that leads to? Highest rate of car accidents in the EU.