rowan

Well, 3 things...

1- Speed limits today are artificial. Most of the cars on the road are quite capable of safely traveling 110-120 on a 6-lane divided highway (such as the 400-series highways in Ontario).
Show me one cop that goes slower than 120 on any 400-series highway and I'll buy you a whole box of doughnuts. =) They keep speed limits low so that it seems safer, and because speeding tickets are great money makers! No work, big payoff for tagging someone with a big fine for +30. I would be much happier if they concentrated on catching the bad drivers .. ones who are wreckless or incompetent .. than people who are going fast but are in control

2- Cops are not going to single you out for going the common speed... maybe where you live, but here it's just not going to happen. Now, if you are holding up traffic then you actually will get pulled over because it is really dangerous to be going 20Km/h slower than everyone else on the road.

3- About the going slow in the far-left lane thing... i swear that no one in Ontario gets training about how to drive on a big highway.. the Right lane is for driving, and the 2 left lanes are both for passing! It's sooo frustrating when people clutter up the middle (passing) lane when there's no one in the right lane for 0 minutes ahead of them.. speaking of dangerous. heh

Please note that I never said I drive fast, or that I race on public roads. So don't try and discredit me by saying otherwise.

NegatiZE

1) Tailgating
2) Kids driving around with their seats reclined all the way back, stereo up, windows down, thinking they own the road
3) Soccer Moms

islandpro

were not to far away from the autobahn here. drive I-5 or I-90 in the west. I drove down to portland avg. about 90 the whole way. but got up to 105. except for seattle but that was still about 75 thru there. when it comes to interstate driveing i will try to match the group of drivers. that way im not a hazard by making people go around me all the time. Two lane roads are different. i go about 5 over the speed limit then. and when there is a passing lane i get over. Im not out there to try to contol anyones speed. just stay off my ***!

rowan

I would love to have different classes of licenses.. it's a really good idea but would require something like either hooking up every cop radar/computer system to a live database .. or having a transmitter as part of your license that cops could read from their cruisers..

Nothing would be worse than going through all the test to get your "high-performance" or "skilled" license than to be continually pulled over by cops just to find out they can't touch you for going +30....
That said, it still wouldn't be safe to go high speeds on public roads because you're still sharing the road with all those other "normal" drivers.