🚀 go-pugleaf

John Gilmer wrote:

> > >
> > > Again, if you have safe driving instincts, you SLOW down automatically
> when
> > > conditions turn bad.
> >
> > Yeah - and in poor visibility on a high speed highway, that's when you get
> hit
> > in the ass.
>
> Well, that is indeed a problem.   Clearly the posted limit should be your
> upper limit when there is any fog or snow.   Beyond that you have to make a
> compromise between the accident you might have by running into someone else
> and someone running into you.
>
> In even the most sever conditions (you can only see the line on your left by
> opening the window) I have still attempted to maintain SOME forward
> progress - on the order of 10 mph.   At that speed you have a change of
> reacting to a stopped car in front of you; if someone is going faster your
> relative speed is 10 mph less.

In conditions like this, my opinion is that there is _no_ safe speed.  U have
about as good a chance of getting mowed down from the rear as you do of hitting
something.  Best speed on a road likely to remain clear, such as an Interstate
highway, would be about 30.  At 30, U can still (with seat belts) (according to
crash tests) remain alive if U hit something that is stopped, and impacts from
the rear will be less forceful due to the lower speed differential.

>
>
> >
> >
> > >   When you realize you can only see 1/4 mile ahead you
> > > slow down;
> >
> > 1/4 mile visibility is no reason to be slowing down.  The biggest truck
> with
> > the heaviest load can still stop from any speed limit in the country in
> 1/4
> > mile.
> >
>
> Yes it is!   Aside from anything else it is a warning that conditions have
> changed from better to worse.    Your slowing down is a message to ANY
> INTELLIGENT drivers behind you that something is happening!
>
> In any case, once visibility goes down to 1/4 mile you don't have ANY excuse
> to exceed the posted limit!

Well, I don't really need an excuse - and view 1/4 mile visibility as still very
good driving conditions.  I would drive the same speed that I'd drive during
bright and sunny, since I can still see everything that is significant to
safety.

Plus, with 1/4 mile visibility, the bears can't run their new-fangled airplane
speed trap! <GGG>

DPH


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