Speed is relative to the post limits and the safety of driving the speed. For example, tt is possible to get a reckless ticket for traveling at the posted speed limit if the weather is really bad.

I believe you can go faster on the West side of the state, but that is true for the portion you would travel up to idaho.

My sentiments exactly. Was it really necessary to cause a traffic jam to "prove" the obvious? The video would have been way better if sombody shot at or PIT'd them. ;)

Hey... Fuck You

Hypothetically, I've done that before. Not a good plan I assure you. That was my first car chase, ah the memories. Hypothetically of course.

I would like to keep a box of grenades under the driver's seat of my car specifically for the purpose of having something attention getting to throw into the passenger side window of every car I have to pass on the right because some dimwitted asshat on a cell phone is unaware that his slow driving ass should get the hell out of the fast lane.

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I genuinely believe my head would explode if I was forced to drive behind a bunch of opinionated college students out to prove some half assed point. (POP!)

Shit, I hope you're not right :lol: ...I'm pretty sure on I-5 there are stretches of 65 MPH (if there is no construction), otherwise, the whole place is 55..

I always look suspicious.

However, once I made it from Reno To Seattle in a Merceded Benz, that didn't belong to me, with expired tags, in the rain, on bald tires with a trunk and backseat full of expensive electronics. Good times. :cool:

LUCK!

haha

What!! :lol:

Some of you guys might remember my one rant where I had the run-in with the ****ing assbite SUV from Kalifornica, somewhere in Oregon before the CA border. omg, remembering that incident gets me going! (An SUV on my tail better never get within 4" of my bumper again!)
I needed laser beams on the front of my car to disintegrate their tires, and I needed me a South-of-the-border-filled-to-the-brim-with-soggy-messy-slimey-bean-giant burrito to chuck at their ****ing windshield..

Evil Twin, out.

In CA, they call it the 'CA Basic Speed Law' I believe. Basically, it's a catch-all that says that it is illegal to go faster than the road conditions warrant.

http://www.dmv.ca.gov/pubs/vctop/d11/vc22350.htm

I just watched the video again, and I'm angry again. I knew kids like this in High School, with these same attitudes and opinions. That general "i'm smarter than you" demeanor. They got beat up a LOT.

The nice thing about that law is that it's been used to justify going over the limit in the middle of nowhere... not that I would suggest breaking the speed limit with the idea that you can just cite the law and get out of it. But people have been clocked for speeding on an empty road in excellent conditions and won on the principle that, yes they were speeding, but they were also well below the speed that the conditions would safely allow.

Good call on this one. How often have you been going 75+ in a 65 on a rural highway, say on your way to Las Vegas, when you pass a NHP and they don't even look twice? So that is a valid point.

My dad goes 90 with no exception in his old man caddy down the Vegas and never gets pulled over. They go about 3 times a year.

I was going much over the speed limit once, and I had a cop on my ass. It made me really worried, till when I pulled over, he just zoomed right past me :lol:

(and then went to go sit -- presumably with a radar gun -- at the edge of one of those towns were it instantly drops to 25mph).

Most cops are looking for the asshat in the yellow car going 100mph over the pass. :oops:

the last few post remind me of my buddy who got pulled over for following to close to an ambulance. NHP between sparks a winnie somwhere an ambulance was running in the fast lane doing well over 85mph my buddy had his mustang on cruise control and was behind it keeping up not realizing that he was doing 85. the cop pulled him over and gave him the usual "DO you know why i pulled you over? Question. well my bud said cause im doin 85 along with the also usual apologie and the nhp officer said "NO"!it was because you were following to closely behind the ambulance. to make along story a little shorter the cop 7's fine 8's ok 9's getting close and 10will get you hauled in!! he said basically its ok because there aint crap between here and elko anyways!

What?! :?:

Duh, that's the number of times it's okay to rearend the ambulance.

Really? I thought it was the number of shots fired

:lol:

I keep re-reading it attempting to understand what it means, but I can't decipher it. Maybe it's a coded message for something.

I think he is talking about speed limits. IE, 7's=70-79mph...but I'm not 100%.

ya that what it means. it took me a minute to figure it out when i heard it first. 7=70 8= 80 9=90 get to close to 100 or 10 and there pullin you over!

I'm surprised those guys didn't get pushed right off the highway. People haul ass on the roads out here, even surface streets.