Quite presumptuous of the gps apps to assume you will break the speed limit when giving your eta, amirite?

I always wondered about this. Like how can it be that accurate when I know I sped most of the way

by bertram71 1 week ago

Because everyone did the same. It uses users speeds data to estimate and not law speed limits

by Schroedercathy 1 week ago

Not doing 5-10 over. Doing 80 in a 55 on a parkway and still just only making the eta or even being a little bit behind.

by Big-Shelter 1 week ago

You drive on a parkway? Next you'll say you park in driveway, you mad lad

by Anonymous 1 week ago

As long as you don't send your shipment by car, or cargo by ship, you'll be ok!

by Anonymous 1 week ago

cargo by ship Car not go by ship. Car go by road.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

You're actually just using your brakes more often. Unless it's an empty road, you're not going to manage to actually keep an average of 80 if everyone else is at 55-60.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

I tend to coast back down to speed as long as it isnt a busy time

by Anonymous 1 week ago

As you should if you aren't over driving your roadway.

by Brianmoore 1 week ago

What if you need to slow down faster than expected? Emergencies happen, sure, but if you're driving open highway in clear visibility this should very rarely be the case. If you're going 80 and you see a guy in front of you going 55 there's literally no reason to brake unless they cut you off. Or maybe you're going down a steep hill.

by Myronrunte 1 week ago

Haha, I try to learn those types of light so I can brake as little as possible. The ones by me, for about 5 years, if you accelerated decently up to about the speed limit (35), maybe a couple over, you would make all the lights, otherwise you hit them all. There are so many in a short distance that I'm talking the difference being like 2 vs 10 minutes. They have changed it since.

by Beautiful_Ability778 1 week ago

Where did those 80 miles go?

by Anonymous 1 week ago

Behind the car, obviously! /s

by keira15 1 week ago

Nobody lives out in the sticks? Nobody travels long distances to visit family? Nobody goes sight seeing across the country? Hardly an edge case.

by Budget-Bill-2409 1 week ago

It's a percentage game. This is rough math but…Use a baseline of 60 miles at 60mph. You get there in an hour. Going 10% faster only nets you 6 minutes. And that's assuming a near perfect run. Catch one light (which are made to regulate traffic flow) and you can lose that time quickly. I made a decision years ago that arriving anywhere 10-20% faster is relatively useless unless it's a multi hour drive. All it does is increase risk and most importantly stress. Just leave earlier and enjoy some tunes. Most drives are 30 mins or less for people unless they're in traffic, which nullifies the speeding anyway and increases danger for anything that nets you time. Schedules just are not that important.

by Sporerarvel 1 week ago

It could be purely coincidental, but I have a few friends who consistently drive at or just under the speed limit and are quite "safety" minded behind the wheel: No texting, unsafe lane changes, etc. Between the 3 of them they seem to wreck a car almost every year. It's legitimately never their fault, but I have a theory that the way they drive is at least partly causing these wrecks… perhaps due to "hanging out" in blind spots, a reduction in defensive vigilance due to their "relaxed" style of driving and/or causing other drivers to behave much more aggressively around them. It might be "textbook" safe, but that does not equal actually safe.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

The most important thing when driving is to behave in a way that the monkey brains driving the other vehicles can predict what you're going to do. Which is why self-driving is still a long way off. AI can't reliably predict what the monkey brains are going to do, and it doesn't behave in a way that monkey brains can predict.

by Junior-Station-3267 1 week ago

On most straight major roads, the lights are timed with the speed limit in mind. If you go 5 over you will hit all green lights, if you go 5 under you will hit a lot of red lights. That can make a huge difference. Or in the case of long trips, going 10 over on the freeway for 6 hours will save you almost an hour of drive time.

by Apart-Bug4812 1 week ago

Depends on the length of your trip

by Anonymous 1 week ago

On a 100mi trip where the average speed limit is 60mph, it will take 1 hour 40 minutes. Going 65mph, 1 hour 32 minutes. Going 70mph, 1 hour 25 minutes. That's a 15 minute difference. Sure your ten minute commute won't drop, but if you're going on an even medium length drive, an extra 5-10mph definitely decreases time.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

That's a 15-minute difference on an hour and a half trip. For which you should definitely have a buffer anyway. If the speed limit is 70, going 10 over makes even less of a difference.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

So, if I save 15 minutes, that's enough for me to go get food, use the bathroom, etc. still saving time

by Anonymous 1 week ago

100mi @ 70mph = 1h25m 100mi @ 80mph = 1hr15m Still saving ten minutes on the highway.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

10 over? Those are rookie numbers, you gotta pump up those numbers

by tbergstrom 1 week ago

140 miles at 70mph is 2hr. 140 miles at 80mph 1hr 45m. So unless you're on a massive time crunch, yea it doesn't really do much.

by Sidneyjenkins 1 week ago

Fastest I've ever beat a GPS estimate was by 30 minutes, but it was across a 5 hour drive, and even then I had to step on it a good bit

by Anonymous 1 week ago

Depends on the distance. When my parents used to come visit me in college it took them 4 hours. I always made it in 3.5 hours or less.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

But doing 20 over for the bulk of my highway drive on 100 should see a 20% reduction in travel time.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

Do you mean, it‘s not an ETA but time-to-beat?!

by Minimum-Year 1 week ago

That would explain why it always takes me longer than it says, I actually go the speed limit

by Few_Jump 1 week ago

Waze actually explicitly has a pop-up that says it will use your driving data to provide better arrival time estimates. I just tried Waze recently and was surprised to see that.

by Feisty-Bad-938 1 week ago

I even had this with Google maps. In the most extreme case the difference was more than an hour, because my speed would have taken us through a city as rush hour starts and the other person would have missed it.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

Holy crap that's why my wife and I argue over times.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

Especially these days all the traffic and route eta estimates are taken from other people ahead of you on the road who are also using maps. It's live data from the other cars in traffic who are also speeding a bit, they're not just calculating the distances and dividing by the different speed limits.

by Spurdy 1 week ago

I don't think it is actually all that accurate, it's pretty good. I do Sunday morning drives because it's super quiet on the roads, I obey local street signs but when I get on the open highway I let loose. I'll put in a destination about 1.5 hours away and I'll make it in an hour and 15 minutes. Like I can easily knock off 10 + minutes from the original ETA. Im wondering if people don't realize that the ETA updates through the journey of you are pacing ahead of the original ETA. If I leave at 8am it will say 930 ETA but as I get closer it will update to 915 to compensate for the speed or any shortcuts.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

If you always speed, why shouldn't it take that into account when giving estimates?

by Anonymous 1 week ago

Idk about any other gos apps or actual GPS systems but at least Google maps will give a standard time frame then update it as youre driving. I've caught it adjusting the arrival time quite a lot on long road trips.

by Tjast 1 week ago

It auto updates the ETA based on location, right? So the closer you get to your destination, the more accurate the ETA.

by PeaAromatic 1 week ago

Because speeding only gains you a few minutes on very long trips. So the app doesn't need to know who's driving safely and who thinks a few minutes of their time might be worth a couple of human lives.

by Few_Gur 1 week ago

I drive 1000 miles a few times a year. Speed limit is 70 the vast majority of the way. If I go 80 I save like 2 hours. I'd say I'm about in the middle when it comes to speed, I get passed by people going faster about the same amount as I pass people going slower.

by Myronrunte 1 week ago

So a person driving slower is safer, that's the only factor that matters? I think you might be a simple minded fool. Heck while you're still looking at your phone, I'll pay attention on green and go, getting through the next green while you sit at that red. That's 5 minutes right there (real life example of how a light is set that leads onto a highway) People on their phones are much worse than most people speeding. At least speeders tend to pay attention.

by Beautiful_Ability778 1 week ago

It's weird whataboutism when you don't even know if that person is ever on their phone, or sitting on reds.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

I don't think you know what "whataboutism" is, lol I was obviously using an impersonal "you", not that specific person. Did you really think I was speaking about them personally sitting at that exact light next to me? I meant people with that type of thinking.

by Beautiful_Ability778 1 week ago

They're talking about driving speed, and your point is that speeding is less dangerous than something else, without addressing the point. That's whataboutism to me, if it's not to you I'm not interested in arguing about words. And I don't think your use of "you" was obvious, considering before that you were saying "you might be a simple minded fool", which is directly addressing the other person. But again, that's not worth arguing about. And I can't see how the line of thinking where speeding increases danger leads to phone use while driving, sitting at red lights, or distracted driving in general. People can speed AND not pay sufficient attention, and they can not speed AND pay attention, or any other combination. One does not involve the other.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

Speeding often gains a very long time, the other day I drove 3 hours on the motorway, I was doing 85 and never hit any traffic, saved over half an hour on my trip

by lolitaweissnat 1 week ago

Of course if you drive way above the speed limit you might start to gain some time. But then again, becoming a potential murderer only to win a pathetic half an hour you'll waste later on some trivial activity is… an interesting choice. You can be dumb playing with your own life if it has truly no value to you, the real problem if you're putting other lives at risk, and those are worth something.

by Few_Gur 1 week ago

Potential murderer is an incredible overstatement for driving 85 on a motorway, it's really not dangerous, the speed limit on motorways in France is 80, on the autobahn there is no limit in some places..

by lolitaweissnat 1 week ago

So what was the actual limit on your motorway? Because to gain almost 20% of travel time you know you weren't driving just above the limit. And then there this notion of speed differential, that's when you become dangerous. But I'm sure, contrary to all the other killers of the road, you were in total control. Only bad and unconfident drivers killed themselves or others right? And it never happened on roads that were "deserted" right?

by Few_Gur 1 week ago

70mph limit on motorways in the UK, motorways are very safe, and it's not like I'm zooming past people...

by lolitaweissnat 1 week ago

At 85mph, you're zooming past people.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

Visit Detroit, speed limit 55 - you gotta do 80 just to keep up with the slow lane.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

Maybe people speed where they live, they do where I am. If you understand how relative speed works that is.

by Beautiful_Ability778 1 week ago

Careful you don't hurt yourself clutching those pearls.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

Are you clutching your pearls when you see me clutching my pearls? That the issue with weak comebacks from the 60s, they don't make sense and I just have to repeat them to ridicule them.

by Few_Gur 1 week ago

Long road trips with google maps lets you see what the current speed limit is, and the estimated speed you are moving based on gps position. Generally within 5 km/h up or down

by Anonymous 1 week ago

Interesting, I don't have this experience at all. There's a 4.5 hour drive I take frequently, and when I maintain 10% over the speed limit, I can get there in close to 4 hours. It's actually very precise, I drive 10% over the speed limit for an hour, and my eta decreases by 6 minutes. If I wasn't driving very fast for a while, I'll go 20% over and see faster reductions. Maybe most drivers on my route are driving the speed limit?

by art46 1 week ago

It's because speeding by 5-10mph does very little to change your actual eta. You can research this yourself but the reality is speeding by a small amount doesn't really change your travel time. If you manage to actually increase your average speed to 5mph over the speed limit for your entire trip the eta will lower on google but chances are you'll hit a red light or three, or some traffic, and all the time you would have gained is lost.

by Abuckridge 1 week ago

This is why I laugh when there's a small bit of road where the limit changes from 50 to 40, I slow down to 40.knowing full well it's there because traffic lights are coming up. There's almost always someone who gets mad, overtakes me and then pulls back into the same lane... only to be greeted by the queue at the traffic lights seconds later. Like, good job champ, you got one whole car length ahead of me! Well done!

by sterlingcasper 1 week ago

Yep, I have the traffic lights timed on my way to work and know which ones that if I just do the speed limit, it will change right before I get there. It's a 50/50 chance someone ruins my fun, but it is what it is. Lol.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

In Europe, on some stretches of road the traffic light timing is actually set up like that. If you drive the speed limit, you benefit from the 'green wave'. It's a smart way to reward people who respect the limit, and it's better for the environment.

by AdventurousStay 1 week ago

Meanwhile Boston deliberately designs in "red waves", because making it hard to drive is easier than actually fixing our public transit.

by hellerettie 1 week ago

That's happens right by my house by a hill. You can tell who commutes that way daily and who is just passing through because the people passing through will try to pass and end up slamming their breaks when they see that red light. Really needs a sign there tbh

by Anonymous 1 week ago

I used to think the same thing and think it's entirely pointless for someone to overtake just to get one car ahead. However, far far far too often am I stuck behind a car that's going 5-10mph under the speed limit and is lagging behind the rest of the traffic, or they slow down by 15-20mph to take a bend in the road and again lag behind traffic. In those cases I will absolutely get one car ahead so I can keep up with the traffic and not have to go from 40 to 30 to 15 every few minutes

by Ecstatic-Ad-5401 1 week ago

yup you can notice this by paying attention to other cars around you. if you're speeding you'll notice everyone catches up with you very quickly as soon as you get stuck behind one slow car for a few seconds or a red light. same if you're going the speed limit you'll notice catching up to people who passed you. only time speeding really gets you there faster is if you have zero obstacles.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

only time speeding really gets you there faster is if you have zero obstacles. Or if you're on a very long drive. On a 300 mile trip, the difference between 60 mph and 70 mph is like 40 minutes

by Weekly_County 1 week ago

Granted most very long drives tend to involve relatively few obstacles

by Anonymous 1 week ago

It can be weird, though. Driving down the (US) east coast, there are a bunch of cities smack in the middle of the major highways. And those cities have congestion at regular intervals. Speeding from Portland, ME down to Hartford, CT (200 miles) to get 40 minutes ahead of NYC's rush hour can improve your time to destination by hours

by Anonymous 1 week ago

I laugh at that other car because they are driving unsafely, cutting people off and such, and they don't get their reward of making the light.

by Similar-Teacher893 1 week ago

That is a good point to make and a good line to draw - while increasing the speed will certainly reduce your travel time in most scenarios, I would never condone unsafe, aggressive driving. You can have safe faster driving.

by quitzongeorgian 1 week ago

100% this. Its all about making the light.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

Ok so you're maybe 3 seconds ahead of where you would be if you weren't speeding and the light stays green for 60 seconds per cycle… there is a 1 in 20 chance that you speeding has made the difference between making it through or not. Not great odds. Then on the occasional light that you do get through as a result of speeding, you just get to the next red one earlier and the people you left behind catch up. You're back to being just barely ahead

by Anonymous 1 week ago

No. Making this green, using the same logic, puts you at a tremendous advantage to make the next green. It's exponential. Because you're making the first green that the slow car missed, you're no longer 3 seconds ahead, you're 120-180 seconds ahead. And for a city like mine where the lights aren't coordinated, this almost certainly means the difference between making the next red or green. And so on and so forth for every one of the red lights between you and your destination. It's the reason why the disparity can be a 5 or a 20 minute drive. The three seconds you beat the slow car by is the difference in the trip times for the entire trip. It's very common to be right on the cusp of missing or making a light. The three seconds determines where you fall on that margin in a nonzero amount of scenarios.

by quitzongeorgian 1 week ago

Have you ever considered that your city's lights ARE coordinated, but they're just coordinated to the speed limit? If you're always speeding it would seem random, but if you're going the speed limit you just hit every green until you turn.

by Hoegertrey 1 week ago

Yes, many people in my city have confirmed that they are not coordinated to any speed. It's a known issue in many towns. All you can do is try your best to make the greens and get to work in a reasonable time.

by quitzongeorgian 1 week ago

I mean it depends how far you're going. If you're driving 500 miles on 60mph roads, doing 10 over saves you over an hour.

by Feisty-Bad-938 1 week ago

It does over 6 hours.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

Love beating google. Bit yeah long trips. 10 mins adds up. Why I have to overtake.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

This is exactly right. Most don't realize that at 60mph you are going a mile a minute. That's all. Functionally, going 65mph men's you've only gained an extra mile for every 12 minutes you drive that 5mph more. Also, Google maps and such will update your ETA based on current speed fairly continuously. The original estimation before you start your trip is based on current road conditions and speed limit.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

That's why I always speed 20 over the limit

by New-Record-5601 1 week ago

Or 100 over, after watching Ford v Ferrari.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

When I put in directions from Salt Lake City to Cheyenne and it says I'll make it in 5 hours flat, I'm pretty sure it's expecting me to speed. It's told me I can make a 180 mile drive in 2.5 hours (Roseburg, OR to Portland, OR) when the speed limit on that road is 65. It absolutely (sometimes) expects you to speed.

by Fritschluisa 1 week ago

It's taking into account local traffic conditions and the speed of cars (by tracking the phones' movement inside the cars), not the speed limit.

by Dickisonya 1 week ago

Wouldn't it affect your travel time the longer you're driving? I guess you're right 5-10 is nothing but 20 over say a five hour drive starts to really add up...

by Green-Degree 1 week ago

This is a fact except for the confirmation bias that gets reaffirmed whenever I decide not to speed and miss the light by 2 seconds.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

I used to love driving 3 hours with the GPS on and watch my eta drop min by min. Could usually save 15-20 min by the end of my trip. Now my GPS knows I Always drive at least 20 over on the highway and it doesn't drop at all. It's the GPS programing that has changed, not that it doesn't make much difference.

by bcrona 1 week ago

This is why I always speed 50-100mph

by Ok-Square-7781 1 week ago

Yeah funny enough the major thing it changes is just making your gas mileage worse

by margieheathcote 1 week ago

It's more clear on long drives that it actually does assume you'll break the speed limit (Google Maps anyway). It's easy to see that 1000km on the trans-Canada highway can't get done in 8 hours unless you're pushing some boundaries. 5-10mph does make a difference on those scales, and they take it into account!

by Anonymous 1 week ago

It's not as rare as you think. People have done studies to prove it. Obviously in a perfect environment going faster is faster but it just rarely works that way.

by Abuckridge 1 week ago

Even just waiting for a few seconds to enter a roundabout can slow you enough for cars going 5mph slower than you to catch you while you wait.

by Abuckridge 1 week ago

Speeding just does not save the amount of time people think it does.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

The real time saver is running the red lights.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

It really depends on the distance. I make an 70 mile drive a few times a week and sometimes it's 90 mins when I can't speed then other times is about an hour. That's pretty significant difference. Now extrapolate this to a longer drive and the difference can literally be hours…

by Anonymous 1 week ago

Speeding 70 mile drive in a hour is you going 70mph Not speeding 70 miles in 90 mins is you going 47mph. Ya some reason I don't believe you are telling the truth about the gap in time in reality unless you just secretly admit you speed A LOT by 50% above the speed limit

by Massive-Whole 1 week ago

Yea I think brother just hits traffic some times lmao, it's not the speeding people you have to go FAST to save time

by Reillytyson 1 week ago

That's exactly what it was. They even admitted it lol

by Massive-Whole 1 week ago

What are you on about? Now I'm withholding facts? Lmfao okay. You're obviously so much smarter and better than me. I'm sorry to have offended you by trying to give my 2 cents. It won't happen again oh great and holy one.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

So many times I've had someone aggressively speeding passed me, only for me to catch up to them a few minutes later at a set of lights. It really is pointless. I could see maybe a very long journey on a motorway would make sense to maintain a higher speed though, you might shave a few minutes off.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

The fun part is driving past them as the light hits green and you're clear to keep going while they just start moving again.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

In your exaggerated example: I agree. But if you're in a city full of traffic lights, weaving in and out of traffic to get one car length ahead, speeding to 20 km/h over the limit between lights... you will not save much time and will instead endanger the life of other drivers and pedestrians.

by iva69 1 week ago

Ruin your fuel economy? Doesn't go slower save fuel? And how is it unsafe? But yeah I get the frustrating part, especially if you are in a hurry.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

70 kph is usually more efficient than 40kph for gas cars because the engine friction losses are a larger proportion of total energy use at lower speeds. Eventually the squaring of aerodynamic drag overtakes it, but most cars get peak efficiency at around 55 mph/88 kph.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

Less time on the road -> Less fuel used /s

by Capable_Cash2239 1 week ago

And so many times that person that passed you made it through those lights and you never see them again. Your confirmation bias only remembers that ones that don't make it.

by Alarming_Wish 1 week ago

I don't aggressively pass anyone, but I think it's more enjoyable to drive a bit too fast. I know I'm not reducing my overall travel time by much, but I like the feeling of driving a bit faster. Mind you, doing so safely.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

The misconception here is that speeding is a game of probability. It's "if I go slightly faster and make up only 10 seconds, how will that increase the probability of making the next light?" You're probably just overlooking the times that someone speeds in front of you and makes the light.

by Tessie46 1 week ago

We don't speed to get somewhere faster, we speed to get somewhere while enjoying the journey more

by loramccullough 1 week ago

For long drives I can drive down the ETA by a lot (like up to a couple of hours per 1000km), the ETA gets adjusted as you go and becomes more and more reliable the smaller the distance

by Anonymous 1 week ago

The ETA is a time trial and I will beat it.

by jazmynmitchell 1 week ago

Well because it gets data from other cars.

by Alvenawhite 1 week ago

Presumptuous? Speeding in our society is so widespread that most people will get angry at you for NOT speeding

by ElevatorOwn2278 1 week ago

As far as I know neither Google nor Apple – or their local use – consider individual driving speed. They just accumulate all start and ending times, allow for known speed limits and create an average for each time of the day. In my own experience with Apple, it absolutely does not learn individual driving patterns – I use it always when we visit the inlaws, regardless of whether my wife drives or I drive and it is consistently too optimistic, as we do like to cruise behind trucks instead of using the recommended 130 kph, much less the 150, 160 kph even our car can pull off and other people drive.

by Vbogan 1 week ago

Waze definitely does. They even sent out notifications about it not too long ago.

by Holiday-Nobody3591 1 week ago

Waze I can totally see even without that info. Their whole thing was/is doing navigation on smartphones, unlike Apple/Google, who just offer this as an essential, but basic service, or Navigon and other GPS producers which jumped to smartphones when single use devices became a niche market.

by Vbogan 1 week ago

Yep, tried it with a friend who drives relatively calmly. Same trip was 4 hrs to him, 3h 30 for me. I don't drive as calmly.

by vankunding 1 week ago

If my dad and I set a journey we rarely even get the same route presented. He drives an SUV he isn't precious about, and can get over speed bumps much faster than I can, and more used to country roads. I tend ot shy away from narrow country roads as I drive unusual cars that I like to keep as nice as possible, one of which is quite big too.

by Holiday-Nobody3591 1 week ago

Google does, if you factory reset your phone you'll get estimates that follow the speed limits. Google knows exactly how fast you tend to drive, and when.

by Etha77 1 week ago

I miss when Google maps didn't do this. Now I have to figure out the time buffer myself.

by Nearby-Development41 1 week ago

They aren't predicting what YOU will do. I beleive they look at average traffic speed based on other people with the app and satellite data, and base estimates on that. Has nothing to do with speed limit.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

Yeah, and that's even assuming that you're able to maintain a constant +20 lol which no one is on a public highway with other cars and speed traps

by Anonymous 1 week ago

Yup. I also find it interesting that time gains exponentially decrease with speed, and the deadliness of a car crash exponentially increases. The difference in deadliness between 20 and 40 mph isn't all that much. The difference between 60 and 80 is huge. 80 and 90 bigger. 90 and 95 bigger. So once you breach like 65ish mph, you aren't gaining much time, but you are taking significant more risk with your life and the life of those around you. It's an interesting relationship where a rational cost benifit analysis should convince most people to never go faster than 65.... but people aren't rational agents no matter how much economists assume we are.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

I feel like it doesn't and I usually catch up on time? Beating google is always part of the fun part. In my experience it does seem to calculate based on speed limit. If you do 80 in a 70 you cut like 3-5 minutes per hour.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

They don't. People don't realize the speeding they do only saves about 30 seconds. It's really not worth the risk. Even as a trucker driving 10 hours a day, with traffic you still only average about 50mph. Doesn't matter if you're governed at 65 or 80.

by BroccoliLeft7326 1 week ago

Well to be fair the government literally expects drivers to be going 5 over. They account for this when setting speed limits, And it's also part of the reason why you never see cops really give out a ticket for less than 5 miles per hour over

by Melodygoodwin 1 week ago

Given that most people I see on the road when I'm driving break the speed limit and try to pressure me to do the same by tailgating, I'd say it's a fair assumption.

by jeweljacobi 1 week ago

Get out of the left lane, or if you're not in the left lane, slow down even more so the tailgater passes you.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

I've always wondered that because it seems no matter how much I speed I can never even cut a minute off my arrival time.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

The GPS assumes I will speed and have no lights as well I can't tell if it's keeping me at or above the speed light too On another note, it does adjust for traffic

by Anonymous 1 week ago

Speeding is a socially acceptable crime despite the fact that speed is the biggest cause of car-related deaths.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

Unless you're driving like 12 hours, 5-10 over won't make a difference of more than a couple minutes. And even then you don't save very much time

by Anonymous 1 week ago

Most satnav systems these days base their predicions on your previous drives it knows about. By doing this is can consider the speeds that you typically travel.

by Holiday-Nobody3591 1 week ago

Wdym? My ETA is always later than what I arrive at

by Manteleif 1 week ago

I ride a moped. The app knows, because it knows the days I used it most. It's not wrong, even on days when I've been a passenger in another vehicle. If it can tell what kind of vehicle you are driving, it can tell how fast you drive.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

Different places have different cultures when it comes to speeding. In some places breaking the speed limit by a lot is actually expected of you.

by Fit-Ad5834 1 week ago