Safe Driving is FUN!!

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Mustang-man
The fact is that i ALWAYS drive exactly at the speed limit or a couple of km/s slower. I am driving at the legal limit all the time in otherwords.
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Me too uless there's some idiot that's trying to bump draft me from behind. :mad: Morons. 🤬
 
i couldnt give a flying fark if youre doing the speed limit. the fact of the matter is that the original posted stated that he does the speed limit on multilane roads, so i really dont care to the number of lanes in most kiwi roads. im speaking as regards to the original post, not a single lane road.

if you are doing the speed limit on a multi lane freeway, you are likely breaking the law as it pertains to keeping right to let traffic pass. you may still be driving the limit, but you should still get a ticket.

of course that assumes that the offending driving is being done in anything but the left lane. even the trucks are doing 60-65 on the freeway.
 
Mustang-man
The fact is that i ALWAYS drive exactly at the speed limit or a couple of km/s slower. I am driving at the legal limit all the time in otherwords.
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Even in fog, rain and snow?

The posted maximum isn't always the safe maximum. And, to quote our country's Highway Code, "The speed limit is a limit, not a target".
 
*sigh*






On motorways i stick to the left unless i'm approaching a slower car up ahead - then i move into the right lane. Bear in mind that we drive on the left side of the road here...

I will move into the left lane if there is a car behind me that wants to go faster. You can get a ticket for holding up drivers in the right lane, but they can also get a ticket for speeding. Even 4km/h over the limit can get you a ticket.

I think this only applies for motorways in Auckland or the whole North Island though as most of the people in New Zealand live in the North Island (about three million, compared to about one million in the South Island).

Famine, you're taking my statement a bit too far - of course i drive to the conditions and don't go the reccommended speed limit around corners which i know you have to slow down for.
Some corners say you should go around them at 75km/h but the fact of the matter is that the majority of them can be taken quite safely at 100km/h - in the dry. I always go slower around those types of corners in wet or foggy conditions. And doing this also prevents drivers behind you getting impatient at your slow cornering speed.
 
Driving at the speed limit (or below) doesn't necessarily mean you are driving safely, total concentration on what you are doing and awareness of other drivers ahead and behind you is safe driving, no matter what speed you are doing (within reason)
 
Mustang-man
Famine, you're taking my statement a bit too far
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I was just fishing... :D Hook, line, sinker, rod and copy of "Angling Times"... :D
 
I actually think the reactions in this topic are quite funny. The people getting so worked up over it are obviously the speeders...
 
Mustang-man
The fact is that i ALWAYS drive exactly at the speed limit or a couple of km/s slower. I am driving at the legal limit all the time in otherwords.
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Taking sharp corners at the speed limit could be considered really quite dangerous and irresponsible. As for roundabouts, i think you should always drive well below the speed limit at all times.

:grumpy:
 
I don't speed, I don't care what everyone else behind me is doing, as long as they aren't putting me in danger i really couldn't care less.
 
TheCracker
Taking sharp corners at the speed limit could be considered really quite dangerous and irresponsible. As for roundabouts, i think you should always drive well below the speed limit at all times.

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:indiff: Can you please point out where i said i take sharp corners at the speed limit?

And roundabouts????? :odd:

*Backs away slowly with an 'Oooookkkkaaaaayyyy......' look on face








:D
 
I am not usually overtaken in open roads, but I never will try to hold or "play" with other drivers, that's too dangerous, you don't know what kind of wacko is at the wheel.

I am trying to not overspeed, and in general, be a more "boring driver", and let the wild moves to racing games... :yuck:
 
Seriously, one big reason I am into the gt series, I can't afford to loose my licence again, and can't afford to race in real amature series, so gt helps relieve some of the "MUST RACE" in my blood !
 
I just got it (at age 30) for the first time and I'm not looking to lose it either. :D

Actually, I fall under the new three strikes you're out system we got since April 2002. This means that if you are taken off the road for any more serious offence (among which 'pushing', 'cutting' and 'severe speeding', for which the police takes you off the road) or causing an accident that involves injury or death, you get a strike. Three strikes, and you have to take both a theoretical and practical exam. Fail those, and you lose your licence completely, after which you'll have to start all over again and retake the real exams, at the relevant costs (right now 200 euro) and with the regular waiting for a bookable exam time (at least a month).

Of course, this measure goes beside the usual hefty tickets or even imprisonment you would get in these cases.

Like TwinTurboJay, I prefer to get my racing kicks out of Gran Turismo. :D But I will and do occasionally test the car's accelleration fully when I drive the ramp to the freeway. There's no accelleration limit, after all, just a speed limit. The more I drive though, the less I"ll probably be doing that, because fuel isn't cheap ... :D

I adhere to the speed limit as best I can, but I don't mind testing the car a bit when the road is clear and the speed limit generous - i.e. it requires some decent handling to actually keep that limit.

Above I just formulated the issues, but normally I would just let a fast drive pass whenever I can do that safely and let him go drive himself off the road somewhere else (or get stuck in traffic just ahead, as is usually the case, where you'll often just catch up with him again). My driving teacher tends to be a little more 'instructive' to other drivers when we were on the road together, smashing angrily on the horn whenever people show some bad and therefore dangerous driving. He agrees with me that this almost never helps, but sometimes you will wake someone up to a danger that he'd otherwise not been aware of and can cause problems when he or she gets into a situation with another, less attentive driver. I think he has a point there.
 
TwinTurboJay
Seriously, one big reason I am into the gt series, I can't afford to loose my licence again, and can't afford to race in real amature series, so gt helps relieve some of the "MUST RACE" in my blood !
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Why don't you try autocross, Jay? It is much cheaper than any WTW format; you don't need a dedicated race car and you don't need any kind of crew. You just show up and 'run what you brung'. You still get to drive as fast as your skills allow and you still get the satisfaction of beating your friends and/or complete strangers alike.

I know this is done in Canada. Check with your local car clubs.


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Thanks for the tip M...I have tried looking up clubs, but am getting no response...do you have any contacts through your racing orginization that would be aware of Canadian Clubs ?
 
Arwin
I adhere to the speed limit as best I can, but I don't mind testing the car a bit when the road is clear and the speed limit generous - i.e. it requires some decent handling to actually keep that limit.
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There's nothing wrong with finding out the outer limits of your car's handling caperbilities, or your own for that matter. There will come a time in everyones 'driving lifetime' when they find themselves arriving at a blind corner too fast / having to sweve to avoid something/someone / driving in bad weather conditions etc etc where their driving/car control skills are sevearly tested. Having some prior knowledge of how their car might react could mean the difference between crashing or not.

I'm not saying that everyone should drive around on the limit all the time - that would be preposperous. But experimenting on a quiet stretch of road, away from any hazards, could make you a safer driver in normal circumstances.

Of course, as M-Spec & TwinTurboJay have been discussing, organised motorsport of any discription is the safest, and most fun, way to test your skills behind the wheel. I know that having done some circuit racing it has made me a better GranTurismo player, who knows, maybe playing GranTurismo has made me a better circuit driver?! - it certainly is good practise!
 
i think you should always be aware of a cars capabilities before you drive it for an extended period. if i rent a car i make it a point to do several hard stops and several hard turns just to gauge how the car handles and brakes. of course rental cars suck, but i do so to know how the car will behave in a panic situation and how quickly it will stop.
 
TheCracker
..probably the bit when you stated...
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Yeah well - within reason man. Obviously i wouldn't go the speed limit through the main street of town while all the shops are open. Or while there was really high wind. Or in real bad weather (snow, hail etc).

In the four years i've been driving i have had no accidents, damaged no vehicles i've been driving (not even scratches), never been pulled over by the Police for anything and never come close to having an accident (apart from one time i was passing a car and the car coming the opposite way pulled out of a sideroad even though he could see me coming towards him đź‘Ž ).

I'm probably the safest driver in our immediate family too.
 
my mom has never had an accident (to the best of my knowledge) and is someone who clogs the freeway because she is driving slower than everyone.

from a "not having accidents" point of view i could say she is a safe driver, but i would not call her a great driver, as her driving has probably caused congestion that led to (m)an(y) accident(s).
 
Yeah i try to avoid congestion so i just pull over. But i basically never have cars lined up behind me for very long as they either pass me or pull off onto another road. Or i lose them in the corners.

Once (and only once) i was driving the Skyline home from Dad's and i got to a passing lane (there were quite a few cars behind me, despite me doing the speed limit the whole time) and i was a little annoyed with them not passing or anything.

So i turned off 'overdrive' (or on or whatever makes it 'change down'), pressed the 'power' button (which turns the boost up) and floored it. It wasn't a very long passing lane and it was uphill but about halfway along it i looked at the speedo and it said i was doing about 145 km/h. Looked in the mirror and the cars that were behind me were now little dots in the distance.

About five minutes later some of them caught up and passed me and the rest i never saw again. But yeah. I did this well over a year ago when i was a crappier driver. When taking the car back to him a few months later i got a speeding ticket and that has made me paranoid that every single Police car i see will pull me over.
 

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