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Posted: 9/30/2011 9:35:57 AM EDT
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I can't tell how fast I am going. I know 100kph is about 60 mph and I estimate from there, but otherwise, I just pay very close attention to the posted speed limit and watch my speedometer like a hawk.
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Posted: 9/30/2011 9:36:05 AM EDT
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Depends on whether the speed limit is on a metric treadmill or one calibrated for US use.
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Posted: 9/30/2011 9:36:46 AM EDT
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Ya, but they also have signs that say 100.
100 mph is up there; 100 kph is not. |
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Posted: 9/30/2011 9:37:26 AM EDT
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Ya, but they also have signs that say 100. 100 mph is up there; 100 kph is not. Exactly my point. 100 km/h is only 60 here. 100 mph is fast. |
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Posted: 9/30/2011 9:38:35 AM EDT
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I find that speed limits in the U.S. are a lot lower than most places I lived in Europe. The 55mph limit on a lot of highways in the U.S. when I first moved here was ridiculous. 
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Posted: 9/30/2011 9:39:22 AM EDT
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Nope! Too busy watching for all those people driving on the wrong side of the road!
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Posted: 9/30/2011 9:39:52 AM EDT
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Depends on how shitty the roads are. I've been on roads where 30 km/h seemed like breakneck speed. |
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Posted: 9/30/2011 9:39:52 AM EDT
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The reason they were driving slow in Jamaica might not be related to the metric system.
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Posted: 9/30/2011 9:39:57 AM EDT
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Quoted: Do you feel you are going slower in a vehicle compared to here? When I went to Jamaica, the fastest speed limit I ever encountered in the tour buses was 40 km/h. That's only 25 mph. And it wasn't fast by any means. 40 mph is decent speed. 40 km/h is not. I ridden in cabs in Jamaica....25 mph on some of those roads was plenty fast. |
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Posted: 9/30/2011 9:41:28 AM EDT
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I find that speed limits in the U.S. are a lot lower than most places I lived in Europe. The 55mph limit on a lot of highways in the U.S. when I first moved here was ridiculous.
that was the energy crisis cars use a lot less gas at 55 mph of course, letting people just burn as much gas as they feel like paying for never entered anyone's mind also, the USA has a shit-ton of highways, some of them have sight distance or geometry problems that limit the speed |
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Posted: 9/30/2011 9:42:08 AM EDT
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heard today that we (UK) may be getting our limit on the motorways raised from 70mph to 80mph
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Posted: 9/30/2011 9:42:09 AM EDT
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The reason they were driving slow in Jamaica might not be related to the metric system. You have a point there. When you have the Carribean Sea within feet of the road you're on, you want to be careful. 
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Posted: 9/30/2011 9:43:09 AM EDT
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Islands tend to have lower speed limits regardless of the measurement system.
Canada has 'normal' speed limits that feel just like here. 100 (60) on the divided highways, 80 (50) on smaller highways, 60 (35) or so in town. |
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Posted: 9/30/2011 9:43:17 AM EDT
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heard today that we (UK) may be getting our limit on the motorways raised from 70mph to 80mph My ex-girlfriend tried convincing me that you guys use KM/H. Me: The British use MPH like us. Her: No, they use kilometers. Me: I've seen Top Gear.
Her: I've been there. Me:
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Posted: 9/30/2011 9:44:13 AM EDT
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Quoted: I find that speed limits in the U.S. are a lot lower than most places I lived in Europe. The 55mph limit on a lot of highways in the U.S. when I first moved here was ridiculous. Probably because all you have to do to get a license here is pay $10 and drive once around the block. Driving is a right, don't you know? So they have to keep the speed limit ridiculously low so that not too many mouth breathers kill themselves or us. |
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Posted: 9/30/2011 9:45:31 AM EDT
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heard today that we (UK) may be getting our limit on the motorways raised from 70mph to 80mph While that's nice for you, it means fewer pictures of burned-out Gatsos for us to laugh at. |
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Posted: 9/30/2011 9:45:47 AM EDT
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Islands tend to have lower speed limits regardless of the measurement system. Canada has 'normal' speed limits that feel just like here. 100 (60) on the divided highways, 80 (50) on smaller highways, 60 (35) or so in town. In Windsor, Ontario they had signs in km/h and MPH, maybe cause it's a border town.
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Posted: 9/30/2011 9:46:42 AM EDT
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Quoted: Quoted: The reason they were driving slow in Jamaica might not be related to the metric system. You have a point there. When you have the Carribean Sea within feet of the road you're on, you want to be careful. I don't think that was the reason intended.... |
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Posted: 9/30/2011 9:47:56 AM EDT
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Quoted: yer mph in the UK Quoted: heard today that we (UK) may be getting our limit on the motorways raised from 70mph to 80mph My ex-girlfriend tried convincing me that you guys use KM/H. Me: The British use MPH like us. Her: No, they use kilometers. Me: I've seen Top Gear. Her: I've been there. Me: i even had my hilux jap import converted to read miles . |
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Posted: 9/30/2011 9:49:04 AM EDT
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Quoted: not so , they will just set them a bit higherQuoted: heard today that we (UK) may be getting our limit on the motorways raised from 70mph to 80mph While that's nice for you, it means fewer pictures of burned-out Gatsos for us to laugh at. |
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Posted: 9/30/2011 9:50:38 AM EDT
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When I lived in Australia they had some posted that were 110kmh. Some areas in the outback had no speed limit.
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Posted: 9/30/2011 9:52:39 AM EDT
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The reason they were driving slow in Jamaica might not be related to the metric system. You have a point there. When you have the Carribean Sea within feet of the road you're on, you want to be careful. I don't think that was the reason intended.... It reinforces things. A rastafarian bus driver smoking ganga driving along the edge of a cliff. |
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Posted: 9/30/2011 10:10:08 AM EDT
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i had a Canadian roommate whose car was metric. freaked me out the first time i drove it. i thought i was super speeding in a school zone......
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Posted: 9/30/2011 10:12:30 AM EDT
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I know when I was driving 140 KPH in Dubai it felt fast, until I saw the flashing lights behind me to get the hell out of the way.
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Posted: 9/30/2011 10:14:57 AM EDT
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I find that speed limits in the U.S. are a lot lower than most places I lived in Europe. The 55mph limit on a lot of highways in the U.S. when I first moved here was ridiculous.
It is stupid. I-17 in Phoenix has a posted limit of 55MPH, but I-10 has a posted limit of 65MPH. I argued about this with a cop friend once (how are you unsafe going 65 on I-17 but not I-10?).
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Posted: 9/30/2011 10:18:01 AM EDT
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When I was about 12 or so, we took a family trip to Niagara Falls.
My dad got pulled over doing 75mph in an 80kph zone. He said later, "I thought they were pulling me over for going too slow!" <–––– Comes from a long line of it.
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Posted: 9/30/2011 10:20:10 AM EDT
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Do you feel you are going slower in a vehicle compared to here? When I went to Jamaica, the fastest speed limit I ever encountered in the tour buses was 40 km/h. That's only 25 mph. And it wasn't fast by any means. 40 mph is decent speed. 40 km/h is not. What is odd for me is that I think speed in MPH but distance walking in klicks. |
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Posted: 9/30/2011 10:22:47 AM EDT
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I've spent a majority of the year in places that run on KPH and haven't noticed any difference.
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Posted: 9/30/2011 10:26:06 AM EDT
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Yes, I felt like I was going much faster because of bad drivers. It's not that they crash a lot but they are pro's at near misses... Asia.
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Posted: 9/30/2011 10:26:19 AM EDT
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That's why I always shoot 5.56 in my ARs. Feels like the bullets are bigger than those puny .223s.
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Posted: 9/30/2011 10:28:39 AM EDT
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Driving in Bangkok it seem like the Daytona 500 everyday. I cant really tell any difference in KPH vs MPH. Taxis there fly anytime they can ....regardless of the speed limit.
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Posted: 9/30/2011 10:32:38 AM EDT
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yer mph in the UK i even had my hilux jap import converted to read miles .
Yeah, and you have to convert to use them weird size gallons...
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Posted: 9/30/2011 10:35:13 AM EDT
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I find that speed limits in the U.S. are a lot lower than most places I lived in Europe. The 55mph limit on a lot of highways in the U.S. when I first moved here was ridiculous.
I used to work with a fellow who came in (legally) to the country from Iran. He once arrived at work flustered because of traffic. He told me that the cause of the traffic was an accident- a person had managed to somehow launch a minivan up into a tree canopy. He was amazed and told me that the last time he had seen anything like it was in the Iran/Iraq war! Considering the number of drivers in the US, the relatively low level of driver education, the national obsession with driving while distracted (aka "multitasking"), the lack of driver re-certification for the elderly and an asshole named Bob I can understand the low relative speed limits. |
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Posted: 9/30/2011 11:08:48 AM EDT
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I find it best to comply with the local driving customs rather than the local driving laws. Most of the countries I have been in that used the metric system speed limit signs were generally considered highway decorations, not anything that had any bearing on how fast or slow one would drive. I drove accordingly.
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Posted: 9/30/2011 11:10:08 AM EDT
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Islands tend to have lower speed limits regardless of the measurement system. Canada has 'normal' speed limits that feel just like here. 100 (60) on the divided highways, 80 (50) on smaller highways, 60 (35) or so in town. 110 KPH on most divided (Trans-canada) highways now, although most drive much faster. Generally on a divided highway, I go 120 to 125 
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Posted: 9/30/2011 11:11:56 AM EDT
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Foreigners drive slow because most of them don't speak English and are busy jabbering away at each other in incomprehensible languages and then trying to translate it into something that makes sense.
Plus their vehicles are often overloaded with farm animals and 'baguettes' |
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Posted: 9/30/2011 11:14:56 AM EDT
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The only cool thing about kilometers, is being able to say "It's 10 clicks up the road".
Other than that, fuck the metric system. |
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Posted: 9/30/2011 11:15:34 AM EDT
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Not really.
Most of the roads we use here are 50 kmh. Given that the level of road maintenance in Sicily isn't what it isin the US, I don't think I would drive too much faster anyway. |
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Posted: 9/30/2011 11:18:24 AM EDT
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I regularly drive 120 - 130 kph here in Egypt.
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Posted: 9/30/2011 11:21:37 AM EDT
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I find that speed limits in the U.S. are a lot lower than most places I lived in Europe. The 55mph limit on a lot of highways in the U.S. when I first moved here was ridiculous.
that was the energy crisis cars use a lot less gas at 55 mph of course, letting people just burn as much gas as they feel like paying for never entered anyone's mind also, the USA has a shit-ton of highways, some of them have sight distance or geometry problems that limit the speed Some are just crappy. Ive used real bad highways in Wyoming and Montana.. |
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Posted: 9/30/2011 11:26:29 AM EDT
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Do you feel you are going slower in a vehicle compared to here? When I went to Jamaica, the fastest speed limit I ever encountered in the tour buses was 40 km/h. That's only 25 mph. And it wasn't fast by any means. 40 mph is decent speed. 40 km/h is not. I suspect you felt like you were traveling slowly because you were traveling slowly. If you measured speed in inches per hour you'd get a large number but you wouldn't be moving any faster. |
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Posted: 9/30/2011 11:32:00 AM EDT
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Ya, but they also have signs that say 100. 100 mph is up there; 100 kph is not. Exactly my point. 100 km/h is only 60 here. 100 mph is fast. I think you'll find 100 km/h is 60mph everywhere.....
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Posted: 9/30/2011 11:38:17 AM EDT
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I find that speed limits in the U.S. are a lot lower than most places I lived in Europe. The 55mph limit on a lot of highways in the U.S. when I first moved here was ridiculous.
a big +1 to drive on a Highway here and to be stuck in 55 or perhaps even 70 just sucks I like to go fast and would love to be able to drive more than 70. Perhaps this is not possible on all of them but on most it should be possible to drive fast. but I guess for the sake of the children this will never happen |
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