Drivers -- how fast are you willing to risk?

[wallawallakids]

Sorry larryz, but how does this have anything to do with "Theme Parks Attractions and Strategies?"

Seems like you are just trying to stir the pot.

Dan

Agree. Thank you.

 

[DisneyNic]

I chose 6-10. The speed limit around us is 75. I set my cruise at 82.

 

[BillSears]

I chose 6-10. The speed limit around us is 75. I set my cruise at 82.

It's easy to choose 6-10 when your speed limits are mostly 75. In Maryland almost everything is 55 with a few going to 60 and I think we have 2 highways at 65. None above 65.

 

[Good Morning Dewdrop]

I do most of the driving - dh is from England and has lived here for 20 years but I still get to drive

I set the cruise control (love it!) which we call "Prancer and Dancer" for 5 mph over the speed limit. If we're in a 70 mph zone I only set it for 72 - I"m not a speeder and I don't want a ticket! I do want to get to Disney but would like to get there in one piece

 

[Wadecool]

This exactly. I too have only ever received tickets for going 10+ miles over the limit. Since I started keeping it to 9 over or less, I have been ticket-free, and that has been 12 years.

Safety-wise, I try to keep my speed even with what most others on the road are doing. Usually that's right in the 5-9 over range.

Many LEO's will tell you that they don't typically light people up for anything less than 10 over. Like several others, I try and abide by the +9 rule and have yet to be ticketed at that speed. <knock on wood>

 

[mrsv98]

I love cruise control and use it as much as I can. I try to go in the middle third of drivers, ie, for every car I pass a car passes me. We just got back from a driving trip to WDW, over 3000 miles and I probably drove 90%. Much of the way is 70mph and I generally had the cc set at about 77-78. I did notice that the farther north we went, the closer to the speed limit people drove. In FL, people were going 85, in GA, more like79-80, in TN and KY, it was more like 75.

 

[Makayna]

There is NOTHING, Disney or otherwise, that is important enough to make me put myself or others in danger. Having said that, I USED to have the worst lead foot of anyone I knew, and have had my license suspended (30 days each time) twice because of too many points, mostly due to speeding. Now, I like to stick to about 5-7 miles over the speed limit, and AT the speed limit or below through construction and/or heavy traffic.

But, if I'm going at or under the speed limit, I WILL NOT be in the furthest left-hand lane! Or even the lane next to it if there are 4 or more lanes of traffic! And for those who like to drive at the speed limit or below, that's fine, but please get out of those lanes! You don't belong there! It's called the "fast lane" for a reason! Thank you. Myself and every other person in this thread who voted that they go over the speed limit (which, is most of us) appreciates it.

 

[Wadecool]

But, if I'm going at or under the speed limit, I WILL NOT be in the furthest left-hand lane! Or even the lane next to it if there are 4 or more lanes of traffic! And for those who like to drive at the speed limit or below, that's fine, but please get out of those lanes! You don't belong there! It's called the "fast lane" for a reason! Thank you. Myself and every other person in this thread who voted that they go over the speed limit (which, is most of us) appreciates it.

Amen! Those folks you describe are a special breed indeed.

 

[dragonfly57005]

I have a lead foot, but it is genetic since I'm related to several race car drivers!

 

[kathleendsm]

The vast majority of the time I set it at 5-6 miles over whatever the posted speed limit is and don't worry too much. That said, a few weeks ago on our way to WDW the cops were REALLY out on I-75 in Georgia, so I set it at 70 on the dot (which was the posted speed limit). I adjusted down in the construction zones. I figure it might have cost us between 30 and 60 minutes in our arrival time down to WDW, but it saved me that surge of adrenaline whenever I saw a cop. I saw several people going past me at not that much over the speed limit who got ticketed. I figure I saved us a dinner at Whispering Canyon.

 

[Tomh]

I LOVE my cruise control lol.

I generally set it about 5 miles an hour over the limit, unless there is a lot of traffic running closer to 10 over, in which case I'll keep up with them.

At times, when there is a lot of traffic going significantly faster, I will up the speed some, but usually when I'm doing anything more than 10 above, I'm not using the cruise.

 

[nooneshome]

On our WDW trips I drive about 74-77 MPH on I-10 until I hit I-75. I generally go around 80-85 MPH. If you aren't going 80 you better be in the slow lane.

 

[gtpoohbear]

Neither of our cars now have cruise-control, so it isn't an option. But I am kind of glad, b/c back when I did have it, I admit to being one of those people who would make less-than-smart decisions to keep from having to hit the brake. Now that I have kids, I hope that I would be able to overcome that temptation, but I'm just glad I don't have to

As for speed, I almost never intentionally go over the limit. I usually try to stay right around the speed limit on longer trips, but a little slower if I'm not comfortable. I stay to the right unless I am passing, and people are welcome to go around me all they want. Not going to risk my family's safety just because someone else is in a hurry!

 

[jlevis]

I set my cruise control to 4 - 5 mph over the speed limit. We've made the tip many times and we can judge the time quite well. a touch to the control will change the speed + or - 3 mph to adjust to traffic. No folish decisions must be made.

 

[RalphinSC]

I do my speed limits like I've done with fastpasses in the past; whatever is acceptable to reasonably be allowed to do without getting in trouble. It just depends on the situation. I'm a "flow of the traffic" kind of guy, and generally on the upper end of that flow (I pass a lot more than I get passsed). I put down in the 6-10 over range because that is ussually where that reasonably allowable and accdeptable speed falls. In some, it's not tolerated at all (like late fastpasses now), and in some areas if you do not go 15-20 over you will get run over and it's actually very unsafe to drive at the posted speed limit (for some reason, the interstates around Dallas, Texas are the most impressionable on me for this. If you aren't doing 90-95, you are almost taking your own car into peril.) I actually take the time to study what is allowable or what I see others doing, and I do just that. I'll gladly drive the posted speed limit if it were strictly enforced.



(I just cannot help but to find the correlation between this and the fastpass wars. Are you SURE you aren't trying to stir the proverbial pot larry? )

 

[gtpoohbear]

If you aren't doing 90-95, you are almost taking your own car into peril.)

Not going to comment. Resisting the urge.

 

[TiggerTrigger]

I vary between 4mph over the limit to 6 mph over the limit.

As for cruise control...I use it b/c it typically improves my gas mileage...which in turn saves me $. I've found that most of the people you see driving who fly in and out of traffic aren't trying to avoid coming out of cruise control mode- they just consider the whole driving experience a race. If anything- the people driving like that rarely use cruise.

In any event, I couldn't fathom a long road trip without it.

 

[HappyGal]

5-10mph over. Cruise control for sure, definatley more fuel effiicient. For those of you that choose to drive at or around the speed limit, I can respect that, honestly, safety first. But if you do, please stay out of the far left lanes. I drove from Orlando to Atlanta yesterday and I can't tell you how many slower drivers there were in the left lanes. Talk about dangerous.

 

[carolhether]

Well I chose the 0-5mph over as this is about 8km per hour where I live, and since I am in another country I definitely don't want a speeding ticket. But then I rarely drive in your country since my dh is a terrible back seat driver
I also agree with HappyGal.....if you are driving the speed limit stick to the right lanes.

 

[kathy884]

I posted 6-10 over the speed limit. That varies, though. I've always read and been told that the safest thing to do is to go the same speed as the other traffic, and typically that's what I see on interstates 6-10 over the speed limit. Obviously driving conditions, etc. will slow things down -- wind, rain, snow, etc.