[sperry]

I didn't watch it with the sound on, so I don't know what they were saying, but if their whole goal was to demonstrate that people speed by blocking traffic, then they're IDITOS.

Like Matt said, there are multiple lanes for a reason. Sure tons of people break the limit, however, driving fast isn't inherrently unsafe, it just means there's more energy at work when something goes wrong. Having massive speed disparity between vehicles is what's unsafe... you know like driving 75 and coming up on some retard going 45 in the fast lane... having to swerve/weave/pass on the right. It's shit like that that gets people killed... not going 10 over the limit.

Proper lane discipline is the #2 thing (second to keeping drunks off the road) that we could do to make our highways safer. The reason that the autobahn works w/o a speedlimit is because people over there use the passing lane only for passing. You don't have to weave in and out of traffic to get somewhere.

In addition, those people are idiots for blocking traffic simply because of the road rage factor. How awesome would there little student film be if a one of those cars that passed them on the shoulder decided to swerve in to the group? Or better yet, pull out in front, block a few lanes then pull a handgun and start unloading into the hippies? Pretty fucking awesome if you ask me. Those that forget there are some unstable people out there are apt to be a little surprised when their antics set one of 'em off.

Finally, blocking traffic like that is illegal. How do they know that in that back somewhere in the 3 mile traffic jam they created, there wasn't an ambulance trying to get somewhere? How do they know that there wasn't a chain reaction of speeders catching the traffic that caused a wreck. Fucking idealistic idiots. Thanks for teaching us something we all know already at the cost of a 1000 other people's inconvience.