Yeah, this is stupid. You are allowed to increase speed to pass someone to allow you to clear them before moving back into the right lane, then you can resume whatever speed you held before. This allows for an open lane for others, even those that you don't agree with about what THEIR speed is. Kicking it up 2 or 3 MPH for a minute isn't going to result in a ticket but it will get you past the other car so you can move over.
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Nick87
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You dumbed that down pretty nice...you think it'll make a dent?
Nope.
Doubt it. mtmuley
Bowmannate2000
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Dave N for president!
No thanks! If I was the Pres the Secret Service wouldn't let me have my guns! No bueno, compadre!
Why would anyone cite Utah as an authority for anything?
noharleyyet
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CSB time;
We'd been married about a year & Wife and I were driving her used German sedan to Taos for a ski weekend.
Well, we had a chilled bottle of unopened wine in the backseat beside my gym bag on top of which I had thrown a shiny un-holstered .357. Had a radar detector on the dash that I surmised had caused a blown fuse & the dash lights and instrument clusters were dead. Had no idea how fast I was going but was keeping up with traffic when a black and white highway patrolman pulled us over between Childress and Estelline.
It's daylight & he looks in and around the car and says, "I'm not gonna even ask about that back seat but how much do you want for that radar detector?"
I laughed, he laughed, and wrote me a speeding ticket & wished us a safe trip. Good dude.
Late 80's...
I probably shouldn’t be an authority on speeding either, I was 14 had a school permit for a whopping 2 days, wasn’t even driving to school and got a 72 in a 50 ticket.
I think the cops have gotten to the point they’ve given up on me. I did get a 90 in a 65 in a semi about a year ago, but I was passing some slow person and wanted to do it quickly and the trooper just happened to be there. He was nice, didn’t even lecture me. I’m guessing when he pulled up all my previous tickets he figured I was a lost cause.
I think the cops have gotten to the point they’ve given up on me. I did get a 90 in a 65 in a semi about a year ago, but I was passing some slow person and wanted to do it quickly and the trooper just happened to be there. He was nice, didn’t even lecture me. I’m guessing when he pulled up all my previous tickets he figured I was a lost cause.
Actually, no. It is illegal to exceed the speed limit whether passing or not.
Nick87
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Nope didn't make a dent.
Nick87
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I've often wondered who these slow cars in the left lane were and if they were just slow all the way around or what....now we know.
Do-it-yourself Barnie Fife. Or more simply, if doing it on purpose, a dick.
Can we get back to stupid stickers, please?
Nick87
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Red Fox
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Passing Speed Limit Exception: If you are driving a passenger vehicle, motorcycle or pickup, not towing another vehicle, you may exceed the posted speed limit by up to 15 miles per hour while passing another vehicle that is traveling below the posted speed limit on a two-lane roadway. The posted speed limit must be 55 miles per hour or greater. This does not apply in work zones. You must return to the righthand lane and reduce speed to the posted speed limit as soon as practicable.
This is straight out of the Idaho's drivers handbook, page 76.
noharleyyet
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noharleyyet
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This conversation reminds me of the poetry of American philosopher Christopher "Ludacris" Bridges.
"I'm going a hundred down the highway,
if you do the speed limit get the f*ck outta my way.
I'm DUI; hardly ever caught sober,
and you's about to get ran the f*ck over!"
