Post ASLPyHgb8efLzuuTdw by vees@epistolary.org
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 (DIR) Post #ASLDVngFuEcDNYOvku by vees@epistolary.org
       2023-02-04T16:21:55Z
       
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       From time to time I see what it’s like to follow posted speed limits on the highway and surface streets for a trip or two and it’s not easy or safe. Basically because everybody speeds a little I become the unpredictable element on the road not abiding by the social contract forcing everybody else to “react” to me.
       
 (DIR) Post #ASLMCcEh8DQLyBR8Lo by jemaleddin@mastodon.social
       2023-02-04T17:59:04Z
       
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       @vees my decision after my last concussion from being rear-ended (695!) to treat speed limits as an upper bound has made me exasperating to other drivers, but it’s quite pleasant.
       
 (DIR) Post #ASLPhh93EJ0o2BJAdE by target@epistolary.org
       2023-02-04T18:38:26Z
       
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       @vees It’s weird to drive back in the states — basically nobody speeds here, and passing on the right is considered worse offense than speeding. (This seems to hold for here, Germany, Netherlands, Belgium, even France. Italy and Spain? Not so much)
       
 (DIR) Post #ASLPyHgb8efLzuuTdw by vees@epistolary.org
       2023-02-04T18:41:29Z
       
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       @jemaleddin Being in a hydroplane collision with a guardrail a few years ago makes me act the same in the rain.
       
 (DIR) Post #ASLQ2C41z1CbifjblY by vees@epistolary.org
       2023-02-04T18:41:56Z
       
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       @target Don't you mean passing on the left?
       
 (DIR) Post #ASLQBCOY7dAXLtcsDY by target@epistolary.org
       2023-02-04T18:43:46Z
       
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       @vees Europe drives on the correct side of the road, unlike those folks on those islands to the west.