The Art of Speeding on the Highway
I have never gotten a speeding ticket. That does not mean I am a conservative driver. Let me share a thing or two about my design on speeding.
The easiest way to speed is to find a line of other speeders. Once you have located a series, cut in between them. You won't be first and you won't be last. See, a police car has only the capability of nabbing one car, and he would never pull aside the car in the middle while he can get the first or last car in line (most likely the last one he sees).
As soon as cars behind you duck aside and you become the last car, don't be dumb to continue speeding in the left lane. Immediately move to the middle lane if there are no slow cars that will get in your way.
You get to know your neighbors when you pass cars. After driving for a while passing other cars, you can see that there has been no police cars driving behind you, unless they have just joined in from a local exit. So most likely, the police cars are up front, either waiting on the right curb or one of those U-turn stops in the middle of the highway divide. Be attentive, you'll see them, and you can adjust your speed accordingly.
In a two lane highway, its funner to speed. If the highway is relatively busy and there are cars behind you, you can speed more easily. The other cars get in the way of the police car if the police car is behind you somewhere. You can tell that the police car is in front by the way other cars adjust their speed.
You can do interval speeding: you go a relatively safe aggressive speed, like 5-10 mph above speed limit, accelerate for a short burst and then go back to your original speed. You're speeding in such short bursts that you're technically not speeding in the long run, and a police can never detect you unless he was right next to you. Such short bursts can really get you ahead.
Duck in between two trucks that are a pretty good distance from each other. Speed in that small interval, change lanes, and duck between trucks again.
If you see a police on the side of the road who is busy writing a ticket to some unfortunate soul, shake your head, be glad it wasn't you, and continue speeding. :)
Comments
Posted by: Gregory Szorc
Posted on: September 7, 2005 12:46 AM
This is an excellent post! The art of speeding is one that is mastered by few. If I could add one suggestion: If driving on hilly terrain, such as western PA, the five-oh like waiting beyond the crest of hills. Avoid cruise control speeding on these highways. Instead, when you go over a hill and see that the coast is clear, start accelerating until you reach the ascent of the next hill. Coast and bleed off speed until you crest at a safe speed. Look around and accelerate again.
Posted by: Nicholas Mayne
Posted on: September 7, 2005 03:44 AM
First, when you see a couple of cars a little ways ahead of you, it is usually safe to speed to those cars as long as you don't see their brake lights flash.
Here is the philosophy:
When people see a police car (hidden or otherwise) their natural inclination is step of the brakes and check their speed (regardless of whether they are speeding or not). As a result, no brake lights = no cops :)
Second, once you pass a police car (and maybe the busted driver), don't be afraid the floor it. There usually won't be any others for at least a mile or so. For most drivers, emotions get in the way and they slow down at take it easy. But we are engineers, and engineers don't have emotions!!!!
Never got a ticket either, just for credibility :).
Posted by: Jamie
Posted on: May 4, 2007 01:02 AM
No, you are not a conservative driver, just a person who is more concerned about getting there quickly. You have no regard for the life of others around you and in fact are nothing but a glorified terrorist.
Posted by: dekor
Posted on: August 3, 2008 07:55 PM
Who really cares anyway? Drive away! :)