Senior Lecturer in Psychology, Dr Richard Stephens, looks at why drivers speed and what can be done to encourage motorists to drive within the speed limit.
Speeding is not a choice for me it’s a getaway from life. I feel thrill and I feel like I have the power and I stop thinking about the derpession and hard truth of life. Any wrong move or driver can end everything
I just can’t justify speeding to myself on public roads. Don’t get me wrong, I like a good thrill. I’ve gone skydiving, rock climbing, and I do jiu jitsu regularly. I even love racing on kart tracks. But speeding on a road with other drivers and pedestrians just sounds inexcusably reckless to me
i mean how do you define speeding, just going 1mph over? is 5 fine? A lot of highways in the US are 55mph, which is a remnant of the oil crisis in the 70s, nothing to do with safety. Sure, going 20 + over will be dangerous just by virtue of the differential between you and other drivers, but speed limits are not entirely rational/ geared towards safety.
@@__D10S__ Up to no more than 5 mph over should be allowed, but only because of the existence of measurement errors in this range in speedometers and speed measurement devices. I doubt that there are many highways with speed limits still limited to 55 mph because they were originally lowered to 55 by the government mandate during the oil embargo in the 70’s. Motor vehicle travel is inherently dangerous at any speed, but generally, the danger increases with higher speed. Speed limits are fundamentally a compromise decision the authorities make between the conflicting interests of public safety and mobility.
I have no desire or temptation to drive fast. Usually the speed limits are pretty much appropriate IMO. Not only that, but you get better MPG's. I live in a ruralish area and frequently drive in the early morning hours on single lane highways. If there isn't much traffic I will drive SLOWER than the speed limit to get better MPG's. It does help. I've checked my mileage during periods where I was able to drive slowly on a consistent basis, and compared it to periods where I drove faster. I always get about 3-4 MPG better by driving slower. If I'm impeding someone behind me I will either speed up to the speed limit until they can pass or pull over at a convenient spot that allows me to slow down minimally, thereby minimizing braking and going through gears getting back up to speed. I'm almost never in a hurry, even after working long days and having some truly insane long commute times. Really irritates me how much of a "hurry" most drivers are always in.
My friend loves Speed.... an addiction that harder than heroin. 20 crashes, 1 broken neck, so many police chases they lost count but never caught. Getting air in his car at 140mph. He feels no fear in a car.
No fear because the individual is disassociated with common sense. So if there were an accident because of this person's fault where a family would die. Where is the skill, where is the common sense. People who are caught by cameras doing this should be banned for life from driving. Caught a second twice a 5 year sentence. Caught a 3rd time a 15 year sentence. This anxiety would be gone in 30 seconds! No pun intended.
@@voa23 you’re saying speeding is worse than other crimes like theft, murder, property destruction and even abduction? Speeding is an escape from the inhibitions of life. It is careless but is not actively putting people in danger. It can passively do this but that is not a guarantee.
My city turns into a street racing arena around 12AM. So, last night I went out for a drive to check how much the other drivers can be challenging my skills. And I noticed when there were no drivers around to challenge me for a race, I didn't feel the incentive to push the car harder. Rather I was cruising. This shows even other drivers' speeding can cause you to speed up
Oh yes, this is so true. From my personal experience MOST drivers speed up (even if its only for a moment ) after they are passed by a faster traveling vehicle.
I just love to send it. It's people who can't drive and drive unroadworthy POS vehicles that cause problems. Driver training and more vehicle checks for unroadworthy crap heaps would save lives more than stupid speed limits that only cause road rage.
I always get a thrill out of driving fast. I feel alive. One night after work I took the interstate home. I saw I was going 80 and there was no one else on the road at that time. I sped up and got to 100mph. God that felt amazing! I see why Sonic loves to go so fast when he runs 😂
Once or twice i have gone 210+ kmh (130+) on the highway or long straights, the ones on the oncoming lane usually get a bit nervous, but its nothing for me, once a oncoming skoda even pulled over, then watched me take that corner behind them flawlessly at 180 kmh, must have shit their pants :)
My man. I did something similar. And I just felt alive once I saw 160kmh. Even today I drove a little like a maniac just to have a challenge. I love cars.
I live next to one of those road. The road used to be a a 100km/h road back in the 70s. Now it's a 50km/h road but the road design didn't change so people still drive between 70-90 there. Imposing a speedlimit isn't a mather of putting up a sign. If you want people to drive 50, design the road so people will naturally drive 50.(narrow lanes, curves, parked cars, close curbes,...)
One of the only things I truly enjoy in this life is going fast. But coming from a car persons perspective, hearing exhaust notes and feeling the suspension even at a slow speed can be enjoyable too.
I was out at a bar with some friends from class and we all were talking loudly about what we liked and hobbies we enjoy. I mentioned that nothing gets me off more than going fast and spending. I said I enjoy it more than sex and no one can change my mind. I said my record was with a friend. We caught ourselves going 143 in a 50. I can’t afford nice toys so my let’s me borrow his 600hp terminator cobra. He trusts me with his life so I pay for his gas and insurance. Speed doesn’t kill. Suddenly stopping does. For the record I still have a clean record. No tickets. No warning. Speeding has less to do with how fast you’re going/going over than where and when you speed. We all drive 60-70+ on the highway when it’s not full of traffic but we aren’t dumb enough to drive 60-70+ down a neighborhood road.
I’m the same way. Whenever I’m going down backroads leaving my girlfriends house at 12am-3am. I just open up and have fun. I always try to stay safe. But when I get on a straight with no intersection I just go balls to the walls. I love the sound of my car I love the way moving at speed feels. I only have a 2010 Mazda 5 but I drive it like I’m on a track.
I usually speed in roads that aren't much used and when I have a good visibility and knowledge of the road It helps saving fuel because I let the car go in slopes without accelerating thanks to the initial short boost. But I hate so much scared drivers who go slow as hell because they ruin the flow making me adapt and reaccelerate to keep going
I find speeding pointless even if you’re doing it when there’s no cars or people around there’s bound to be a cop patrolling; at this point I’ve racked up a couple tickets and points on my license, I suppose I had to learn the hard way but it’s not worth it as you’ll inevitably be caught.
Places like India see huge risks ni driving fast but the technique of driving in my opinion is what matters . while it may be true that it is fun to drive fast it also keeps you awake during longer hours of driving . keeping awake is also probably related to having a bit of excitement while driving .I think the cure to such a culture is to have rules that allow fast driving , like the autobahns of germany . people speed there and yet have lesser accidents than many countries that have speed restrictions and moreover the attitude of people to not injure sombody else .
And actually the countries without speeding limits have far less accidents than us. We have a shit ton of drunks on the road but won’t legalize marijuana 🤷🏽♀️ fucking backwards bullshit. I’ve never heard of anyone crashing and taking lives on weed.
When asked why I love driving I always answered as ... It's an activity that is both fully engaging (you are judging distances, speed, obstacles, coming at you on a second to second basis) and at the same time an activity that is so easy you can teach a child to do it (you just push a few simple levers with your hands and feet). An activity that is both life-threateningly dangerous, but you are relaxed sitting in a nice comfy chair surrounded with a ton (or more) of safety equipment all designed to help you be safe. I guess I was describing "flow" without even realizing it.
@@leifcian4288 I don't think news anchors understand this. I feel like they think we're going to do it on busy highways during rush hour or in a school zone.
Is it fun to speed in a residental area to you? cause I just wittnessed whilst walking my dog in a 25 mph school zone and someone going mayyyybe 55-60 flew by and wizzed on through a 4-way crosswalk. but i am also biased bc my other dog was killed by a car 3 weeks ago..speed on the highway not places where people live please and be safe on your journeys.
Sure sure, just let people have fun at the possible expense of peoples lives. Unless you are on an open road where you can't cause an accident, I can't justify your addiction.
or we could put appropriate speed limits on roads and get rid of speed limits in places where they are not needed such as appropriate parts of motorways and rural isolated roads.
I'd be curious, just observing where I live and applying the lowest fine (since you'd have to average the country's habits) how much money would be brought in if every single speeding person on a given day was given a ticket.
I’m not sure what you learnt from this study. People do things cos they’re fun. If you didn’t know that before then there’s something wrong. If you did, what was the point in this study?
🤣 bet when the NORMAL people, who only speed by 10mph max, motion to pull you outta the car and lay you out, you just keep driving and speeding. All you aggressive speeders are cowards. Any time I see one of you I motion to fight, to drag you out the car. So far not one person stopped and got ready like a man. Our road rage is caused by your dirtballs' road rage.
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Passenger cars are cushy and cozy. The "fun" of driving typically comes from the induced lateral (cornering) and ordinal (acceleration) G-forces the car can produce. People speed because acceleration and cornering beyond grip limits of the car is fun. Roads are designed for the hazards present on them in mind, and the speed limits are set to mitigate those hazards, thus, when exceeding them, driver raises the challenge and subconsciously claims "I bet I can drive faster than this and still not be affected by the hazards present". Only problem is, not everyone who speeds is competent a driver enough to mitigate the hazards. Many are plain oblivious to them, others are willfully ignorant. But that doesn't mean they ought not to enjoy driving - it just means they have to learn yet. There is plenty of drivers that got themselves a nice little sportscar with 200+ horsepower and awesome torque, finding themselves in a ditch because they never learned balance, throttle control, threshold braking, and, most importantly, how to actually scan the road. Karting, track days, and skid pans are just the right playgrounds for that learning to take place. Karting teaches balance, grip, cornering and braking very effectively, as without suspension and rear differential, the rear scrubs and loses grip easily. Track days give you the sense of speed and cornering real cars offer, and skid pans allow one to learn corrective actions when grip is lost. To go fast, you have to know how to go slow, and it doesn't just mean low speed. I sometimes get people tailgating me on a lonely country road, seeing road is clear, why won't I go 20+km/h faster. Truth be told, I drive on cruise control set to GPS-corrected speed, precisely at the limit. Their tailgating stops quickly when a sharp corner comes, when they discover they can't handle their car at the limit, while I happily balance it out and take it at 5-10 above, release gas pedal, set cruise back to what it was.
My city has been such a racing track the last few days that I have seen high speed chases going on. The other day, some guy was doing a 0-100 into a Citroen Xsara Picasso and he was LUCKY to stop. It made me laugh. And then I saw a Mini and an Audi chasing each other. I mean, I love going fast myself, that's something I have a borderline addiction to doing. So yes, as much as I can, I try to go fast. But, I also try to be safe while speeding away in the night.
When people say, "Don't speed." It's a huge majority of teens and other young or even older drivers not taking their car's performance and their reaction time into consideration, they don't think about safety which is probably why I see a lot of those Hellcats crash on the news. Good to think about the border on your car's limit, bro. 😎
@@TwohundredSeventy I live in an area where hardly anyone drives defensively anymore. My father is the only defensive driver left in town that I know of. Everyone else, except few others, think the town is a racing stadium. And yes, the one major street where people love to go beyond the meter, I was crossing the road and very nearly got myself killed. That's how bad it's gotten. And then, a guy was too fast and wouldn't let me pass the crosswalk. I had to run for my life. I'm fine, but now I am traumatized. If I ever crossed the road again, next time i'll just walk on the curb and let people try to overtake me or hide. Less risky than walking from grass to grass. (My town doesn't have so much crosswalks, so)
@@RadiusDevTeam-cv7ou Yeah, my place isn't as bad but nobody is used to people crossing the streets so nobody is really that defensive when it comes to our intersections.
Unfortunately speeding in built up areas reduces flow due to frequent junctions and obstacles that have to be negotiated. Going a slower speeds gives everyone more time to read the road an manoeuvre/filter/turn ect more smoothly. The slower you approach a junction, for instance, the better chance you have of negotiating it without coming to a full stop which saves on fuel, and as you only need to break very gently when you do need to stop, it saves wear and tear on the breaking system... Also when you don't accelerate to higher speed than necessary every dammed time there is less wear and tear on the vehicle components generally. It's a lot less noisy and less anti social to drive a lower speeds and makes day to day life safer/less stressful for cycles/pedestrians and people in the area generally. Driving conservatively and considerately at lower speeds, while planning ahead and maintaining flow IS challenging to do with finnese and you get better at it so it satisfying. You can always go out to a motorway if you feel the need for some speed where it is safe. Let's be real and not so naive.... speeding at (at harsh point to point velocity around urban areas) is not so much about "challenge" its mainly about the feeling of power as if being a big strong animal "get out of my way or else", otherwise its about exhilaration as a fairground roller-coaster, it's not really about challenge at all. Anyone who's reasonably confident having learnt to drive can accelerate hard and break hard "accelerbreaking" up and down little 20/30 residential/urban streets as the system has bent backwards to accommodate simplistic belligerent driving for generations now.
Thank God! Another normal person. I don't feel it's about power though because they're cowards and their speeding angers me to a boiling rage, so I threaten to fight them every car I see and nobody does. So they're not that tough or powerful. Plus when you're actually an adult, with a family, who has the energy to drive fast? It actually takes more thought and more energy and exertion to drive fast, it's not a comfortable, chill thing like just driving normal is. We need more Police patrolling because not enough of these scumbags get busted.
@@JoeGallo43 I think there really needs to be a a way to call out/pull people up on their lousy driving without leaning on police or court time in the "first" instance. It should be possible to submit evidence to the licensing authority and on a simple review it should be actionable as a licencing penalty, the offender can be notified when they next stop at the pump/fast charger and they can be the one to initiate court proceedings if they feel any seemingly clear evidence has miss represented something somehow. Minor infractions should not be a criminal matter in the first instance, just a licencing penalty issue as you agree to maintain a licence when you take one up. Only in more serious cases after the fact of a serious accident or such reckless endangerment that a serious accident would be inevitable without law enforcement Just for actioning minor breaches license It could be possible to get government approved device, tamper proof with calibration certificate, that can reliably read decibels, speed, record time and location, decent camera lenses ect. Wouldn't be cheap to lease, would be used in a certain way under agreement and tampering or miss use could be legally punishable as well ect, however at the moment the only way to call someone up on their nonsense is either for a police to be present or a overt and easily circumvented speed camera ect. Otherwise if you record something as a member of the public and want to press charges it requires a whole set of court proceedings, so there is only so much that can be done when leaning on police and court time in the first instance. Things like setting more reasonable speed limits often won't be done because it will have to be considered how "enforceable" it is...
@@leifcian4288 new speed limits sound like a good idea, up everything 20 MPH and I’ll be happy, although that would mean Emily, the 16 year old girl driving her brand new $30,000 CR-V from mommy would be driving that fast with me. Idc what y’all say speeding is fun and if you try to yell at me at a red light, I’ll just turn my music up and drown you out, I don’t care
@@trenttilger1165Well yeah that's what I was saying, people like to drive their cars the same way people like fairground rollercoasters n such. There's a time and place though, not around where people are living day to day. Really, sophisticated motor vehicles are not children's toys and shouldn't be abused like that so lightly... There's generally no point in just shouting at certain people at red lights though...
@@leifcian4288 you know what, I totally respect that opinion like genuinely I do, but speeding is mine and many others escape from reality, I don’t have the money to go to the strip every week so I get my speed out on highways and high speed roads (55 or higher) unless it’s not busy
The part at the end about using an average speed on the dashboard to stop people speeding, that would just encourage me to get the number as high as possible. If im bored i just go to a country lane and floor it. Driving is my passion
Driving at the speed limit, or just slightly over, actually feels more unsafe to me than doing 10 to 15 miles per hour over the limit (or in some cases way over). Reason being, whenever I drive at or around the limit I am constantly being passed by other drivers and it feels like I'll be rear ended or side swiped at some point...
I could never speed because I can't stomach the thought of risking other peoples lives around me and also what if they have kids in the backseat of their car.
It is a health and mental issue. An anxiety that needs to be alleviated. This Doctor tries to rationalize it and give polls and statistics but again it's just a public danger.
The other night while heading home on the e-way another driver must've saw me approaching them at around 90-95mph, my typical going home speed. They sped up to about 100mph once I got close. For the next couple of miles we raced each other doing 120 (the max my car can go). We gave each other 👍 as I came to my exit. Hella fun. Can't wait to do that on a Harley!
i ride a sportbike, and its not the bike cause anything i put my hands on i just wanna go fast and reckless even with a scooter or a minivan.. i cant help it. i think i need help
Yeah OK so eddy the expert thinks he knows why we speed ! ..So let me tell you about the theory of sppeedd firstly you are only speeding if someone say you are ! ie the authorities ! so this is directly proportional to the abilities of the driver ! so the Authorities think we are all crappy drivers and we should not be allowed to go over 60Kmh because we aren't capable of the skills necessary to do it safely ! WHY ??..simply because the test and exam you are required to pass to get your licence really isn't good for anything more than a wheel barrow , the problem here is this responsibility is left to Motor Driving Schools WHO in reality don't teach you how to drive they only teach you how to pass the Driving test ! so YES they are right most drivers on the road do not have the required skills to drive faster than 60Kmh !....Secondly Why I drive faster than 60 Kmh is because at 60Kmh I can do window shopping !!....It is that slow I actually lose concentration on what I'm doing and start looking for something else to do to prevent me from slipping into a coma !!!...This brings me to my third point ! When you drive fast you are busy driving you don't have time for anything else , you are busy driving and you attention is solely on the task at hand fast drivers are safe drivers as long as the driver has the skill to match the speed !...TEACH BETTER SKILLS ! .........and safety would be higher !
@@shakespeare_hall4788 It simply is not true that “fast drivers are safe drivers as long as the skill matches the speed”. Skill does not make you immune from the much greater physical forces (kinetic energy) present at higher speeds. Your braking distance is four times as long at 100 mph than at 50 mph, regardless of skill.
People drive fast because their scared of being approached in traffic and terrorised harmed ect. Mostly vans go fast because they carry goods ect so to protect themselves and goods
It’s kinda funny actually. My addiction speed has to do directly with money lmao. I (19) don’t have the cash to buy a wheel, petals, and heavy PC for a sim racing experience so instead I’m forced to drive fast irl in my family’s Ford Fusion v6. I mean, I just want to *feel* and see the speed, even if it’s on a screen, but thanks to capitalism, inflation, and consumerism I’m stuck being dangerous and doing it irl I guess. 🤷♂️
Speeding is more than that. For me its part of my person, my beliefs, my freedom. Its gutting nowadays to be monitored everywhere and every UK road clogged not with Drivers but just "car users". Defensive driving being promoted over proactive driving. Its painful for someone like me, but who would understand? Maybe a % of petrolheads and motorcyclists.
I drive at 105 mph (my car is electronically limited or i'd go faster) on days that end in Y! I am highly skilled and just feeling the "flow" from outsmarting the police out looking for speeders! I could teach others how... But I Won't!
@@wendigo90yago62 drive like a ninja, don't make sudden Lane changes and be very patient. If you drive like a maniac you'll not only attract the police but people with cell phones will take pictures and video. If you drive with a smooth finesse even while speeding you can appear to not be.
The trick is to gently guide the car as if you're finessing a woman. Don't whitenuckle the wheel because then every little movement results in an unstabilasing jurk
just a sense in the car anyone can have as long as you maintain your composure you will be fine. it's a feeling you get when you really connect with the car and your not driving it rather you are one with the machine
A year late but I'm very well known for "driving like a idiot" "Mr dukes of hazard" And I REALLY wanna follow the law bc I fear getting a ticket or rather racking up speed sensor tickets. I drive a basic bottom model 2012 nissan juke. I know exactly how my tires will react, where my steering wheel will be and where I need to look. If I take a right turn at a stop light going 45 mph I know whether or not my car will "jump" and how I compensate depends on that. Every. Single. Day. I look at my car with such a pride and appreciation it follows through into my driving. I'm 19 almost 20. I fell in love with my car and pushing its cute but tightly compacted 4 cylinder engine, suspension, breaks and tires. Find a car that you look at everyday with the same level of chest filling pride that I have? You and the car become one (yes i know that sounds corny) ;)
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Speeding is not a choice for me it’s a getaway from life. I feel thrill and I feel like I have the power and I stop thinking about the derpession and hard truth of life. Any wrong move or driver can end everything
Deep
So you are a mad man then
@@Silverswitch1 no he’s actually speaking facts like that’s the best part of the day
Fax
Grow up before you kill someone.
I'm either cruising or flying 🤣
There’s no in between 😂😂😂😂
We all do
Facts
I was told that I’d be put in jail and that my car would be totaled if I got caught speeding again. Not fun
Yeah you definitely got good vibes.
I just can’t justify speeding to myself on public roads. Don’t get me wrong, I like a good thrill. I’ve gone skydiving, rock climbing, and I do jiu jitsu regularly. I even love racing on kart tracks. But speeding on a road with other drivers and pedestrians just sounds inexcusably reckless to me
i mean how do you define speeding, just going 1mph over? is 5 fine? A lot of highways in the US are 55mph, which is a remnant of the oil crisis in the 70s, nothing to do with safety. Sure, going 20 + over will be dangerous just by virtue of the differential between you and other drivers, but speed limits are not entirely rational/ geared towards safety.
@@__D10S__ Up to no more than 5 mph over should be allowed, but only because of the existence of measurement errors in this range in speedometers and speed measurement devices.
I doubt that there are many highways with speed limits still limited to 55 mph because they were originally lowered to 55 by the government mandate during the oil embargo in the 70’s.
Motor vehicle travel is inherently dangerous at any speed, but generally, the danger increases with higher speed. Speed limits are fundamentally a compromise decision the authorities make between the conflicting interests of public safety and mobility.
I have no desire or temptation to drive fast. Usually the speed limits are pretty much appropriate IMO. Not only that, but you get better MPG's. I live in a ruralish area and frequently drive in the early morning hours on single lane highways. If there isn't much traffic I will drive SLOWER than the speed limit to get better MPG's. It does help. I've checked my mileage during periods where I was able to drive slowly on a consistent basis, and compared it to periods where I drove faster. I always get about 3-4 MPG better by driving slower.
If I'm impeding someone behind me I will either speed up to the speed limit until they can pass or pull over at a convenient spot that allows me to slow down minimally, thereby minimizing braking and going through gears getting back up to speed. I'm almost never in a hurry, even after working long days and having some truly insane long commute times. Really irritates me how much of a "hurry" most drivers are always in.
My friend loves Speed.... an addiction that harder than heroin. 20 crashes, 1 broken neck, so many police chases they lost count but never caught. Getting air in his car at 140mph. He feels no fear in a car.
No fear because the individual is disassociated with common sense. So if there were an accident because of this person's fault where a family would die. Where is the skill, where is the common sense. People who are caught by cameras doing this should be banned for life from driving. Caught a second twice a 5 year sentence. Caught a 3rd time a 15 year sentence. This anxiety would be gone in 30 seconds! No pun intended.
Your friend is an asshole. Putting innocent people in extreme danger for his enjoyment.
@@voa2315 years for speeding 😂😂
@@voa23what a idiot. You should go to prison before you start giving out sentences
@@voa23 you’re saying speeding is worse than other crimes like theft, murder, property destruction and even abduction? Speeding is an escape from the inhibitions of life. It is careless but is not actively putting people in danger. It can passively do this but that is not a guarantee.
My city turns into a street racing arena around 12AM. So, last night I went out for a drive to check how much the other drivers can be challenging my skills. And I noticed when there were no drivers around to challenge me for a race, I didn't feel the incentive to push the car harder. Rather I was cruising. This shows even other drivers' speeding can cause you to speed up
Oh yes, this is so true. From my personal experience MOST drivers speed up (even if its only for a moment ) after they are passed by a faster traveling vehicle.
I just love to send it. It's people who can't drive and drive unroadworthy POS vehicles that cause problems. Driver training and more vehicle checks for unroadworthy crap heaps would save lives more than stupid speed limits that only cause road rage.
I always get a thrill out of driving fast. I feel alive. One night after work I took the interstate home. I saw I was going 80 and there was no one else on the road at that time. I sped up and got to 100mph. God that felt amazing! I see why Sonic loves to go so fast when he runs 😂
🌹 Daily life i ride at 80+ Speed on my 100cc Bike 😇
Once or twice i have gone 210+ kmh (130+) on the highway or long straights, the ones on the oncoming lane usually get a bit nervous, but its nothing for me, once a oncoming skoda even pulled over, then watched me take that corner behind them flawlessly at 180 kmh, must have shit their pants :)
My man. I did something similar. And I just felt alive once I saw 160kmh. Even today I drove a little like a maniac just to have a challenge. I love cars.
@@wild_goose_0285 what car do you drive?
@@imasealarparparp5321 2020 Honda civic lx 6spd. It's not fast or powerful but it is sure as hell fun. (I want an SI) you?
In my country there is one road and the limit is 50km/h and 99% drive over the limit
I live next to one of those road. The road used to be a a 100km/h road back in the 70s. Now it's a 50km/h road but the road design didn't change so people still drive between 70-90 there. Imposing a speedlimit isn't a mather of putting up a sign. If you want people to drive 50, design the road so people will naturally drive 50.(narrow lanes, curves, parked cars, close curbes,...)
Lol I'm from New York
The right lane is for the speed limit and about 110% of traffic in the passing lane is speeding.
No these aggressive POS speeders will ride your tail in the right slow lane, and the whole left lane is wide open. Not intelligent people.
One of the only things I truly enjoy in this life is going fast. But coming from a car persons perspective, hearing exhaust notes and feeling the suspension even at a slow speed can be enjoyable too.
I was out at a bar with some friends from class and we all were talking loudly about what we liked and hobbies we enjoy. I mentioned that nothing gets me off more than going fast and spending. I said I enjoy it more than sex and no one can change my mind. I said my record was with a friend. We caught ourselves going 143 in a 50. I can’t afford nice toys so my let’s me borrow his 600hp terminator cobra. He trusts me with his life so I pay for his gas and insurance. Speed doesn’t kill. Suddenly stopping does. For the record I still have a clean record. No tickets. No warning. Speeding has less to do with how fast you’re going/going over than where and when you speed. We all drive 60-70+ on the highway when it’s not full of traffic but we aren’t dumb enough to drive 60-70+ down a neighborhood road.
Yeah, I think a lot of news anchors think we're going to be speeding down a busy highway and/or a school zone.
Taking people to gapplebees healed my soul man
No body really knows real speed until you stomp the gas (the stomp) the most beautiful sound in the world at the moment
I was gonna mention flow state i get it from cliff diving , parkour , bmx , art fpv flying and video games
I got bored 2 nights ago so did 90mph going home keep in mind it was 2:30 am with no one in sight
I’m the same way. Whenever I’m going down backroads leaving my girlfriends house at 12am-3am. I just open up and have fun. I always try to stay safe. But when I get on a straight with no intersection I just go balls to the walls. I love the sound of my car I love the way moving at speed feels. I only have a 2010 Mazda 5 but I drive it like I’m on a track.
bro i just did 150mph
@@PurestAsh I did 320 kph...
@white you drive like my grandma...
I used to hit 140 all the time coming home from school
I’m driving 110 mph everywhere I go ... I’m trynna stop ...
DJARIA same
Wow! Don’t get a speeding ticket...lol
Same.
Same
I got caught doing 116 on a 65. Cop said there was worker present on the ticket Bunch of belony I did not see anybody
I take my 20 year old family sedan to 120mph+ multiple times a week
My type of guy or gal ✍🏾📖🫂❤️
I usually speed in roads that aren't much used and when I have a good visibility and knowledge of the road
It helps saving fuel because I let the car go in slopes without accelerating thanks to the initial short boost.
But I hate so much scared drivers who go slow as hell because they ruin the flow making me adapt and reaccelerate to keep going
We're scared because of you
@@BetaCuckAlpha then I scare you even more by overtaking with full headlight and sometimes aggressive honking depending on my mood
I find speeding pointless even if you’re doing it when there’s no cars or people around there’s bound to be a cop patrolling; at this point I’ve racked up a couple tickets and points on my license, I suppose I had to learn the hard way but it’s not worth it as you’ll inevitably be caught.
you're NOT saving gas. You are putting everyone in danger.
@@ivanrodriguez268 then how did I end up with less gas consumed at the end of the week ?
Places like India see huge risks ni driving fast but the technique of driving in my opinion is what matters . while it may be true that it is fun to drive fast it also keeps you awake during longer hours of driving . keeping awake is also probably related to having a bit of excitement while driving .I think the cure to such a culture is to have rules that allow fast driving , like the autobahns of germany . people speed there and yet have lesser accidents than many countries that have speed restrictions and moreover the attitude of people to not injure sombody else .
And actually the countries without speeding limits have far less accidents than us. We have a shit ton of drunks on the road but won’t legalize marijuana 🤷🏽♀️ fucking backwards bullshit. I’ve never heard of anyone crashing and taking lives on weed.
@@msshaffer5 that’s cap, it happens all the time with weed and drinks
Trent Tilger no that’s facts, get it right.
@@msshaffer5 bro people on weed literally have slower reaction time making them more likely to hit someone
Trent Tilger I don’t care what you think. I’m stating facts. Don’t you have google?
In Iraq you can do what ever you want
There is no speed limit and no thing can stop you
It is free country , no rules very much
Truly? I guess I haven't noticed since traffic is always congested in Iraq, so even if there was a limit, we never reach it
Speed is my adrenaline rush 🏎💨
I love speeding but i choose my spots and i especially don't speed in residential areas
When asked why I love driving I always answered as ... It's an activity that is both fully engaging (you are judging distances, speed, obstacles, coming at you on a second to second basis) and at the same time an activity that is so easy you can teach a child to do it (you just push a few simple levers with your hands and feet). An activity that is both life-threateningly dangerous, but you are relaxed sitting in a nice comfy chair surrounded with a ton (or more) of safety equipment all designed to help you be safe.
I guess I was describing "flow" without even realizing it.
I have a 2011 ferrari 458 so why wouldn't I drive it like I stole it?
It is a choice. You can slow down instead of putting innocent people in extreme danger.
Driving fast is so great. Let people drive fast and have fun.
Open roads that can handle it, not urban places or little country roads.
@@leifcian4288 I don't think news anchors understand this. I feel like they think we're going to do it on busy highways during rush hour or in a school zone.
Is it fun to speed in a residental area to you? cause I just wittnessed whilst walking my dog in a 25 mph school zone and someone going mayyyybe 55-60 flew by and wizzed on through a 4-way crosswalk. but i am also biased bc my other dog was killed by a car 3 weeks ago..speed on the highway not places where people live please and be safe on your journeys.
Sure sure, just let people have fun at the possible expense of peoples lives. Unless you are on an open road where you can't cause an accident, I can't justify your addiction.
or we could put appropriate speed limits on roads and get rid of speed limits in places where they are not needed such as appropriate parts of motorways and rural isolated roads.
I love driving. But i never do speeding.
I only speed in Mexico
You really don't know what you are missing fr
Every time I drive, I fucking risk my life. Honestly I don't care, I'll keep on till the ride last.
Fun starts where grip ends. I don t care to arrive early. I just want to feel driving over the limit of my car. I might die. That is just possible
I'd be curious, just observing where I live and applying the lowest fine (since you'd have to average the country's habits) how much money would be brought in if every single speeding person on a given day was given a ticket.
I’d owe at least 100k by now so idk
😂literally just got a ticket, said I was just flowing. Didn’t go over well
Did you try mentioning that you don't agree with the speed limit? ;)
i was just flowing too but officer understood 😥
@@D3M0N.5K1LL5 you lucky duck
@@D3M0N.5K1LL5 for 111 in Arizona all I got was traffic school, stay white and friendly kids
I’m not sure what you learnt from this study. People do things cos they’re fun. If you didn’t know that before then there’s something wrong. If you did, what was the point in this study?
🤣🤣🤣🤣
Fun?? 🤣🤣🤣🤣 You're a joke!
I like to drive max speed on public roads
🤣 bet when the NORMAL people, who only speed by 10mph max, motion to pull you outta the car and lay you out, you just keep driving and speeding. All you aggressive speeders are cowards. Any time I see one of you I motion to fight, to drag you out the car. So far not one person stopped and got ready like a man. Our road rage is caused by your dirtballs' road rage.
Passenger cars are cushy and cozy. The "fun" of driving typically comes from the induced lateral (cornering) and ordinal (acceleration) G-forces the car can produce. People speed because acceleration and cornering beyond grip limits of the car is fun. Roads are designed for the hazards present on them in mind, and the speed limits are set to mitigate those hazards, thus, when exceeding them, driver raises the challenge and subconsciously claims "I bet I can drive faster than this and still not be affected by the hazards present".
Only problem is, not everyone who speeds is competent a driver enough to mitigate the hazards. Many are plain oblivious to them, others are willfully ignorant. But that doesn't mean they ought not to enjoy driving - it just means they have to learn yet. There is plenty of drivers that got themselves a nice little sportscar with 200+ horsepower and awesome torque, finding themselves in a ditch because they never learned balance, throttle control, threshold braking, and, most importantly, how to actually scan the road.
Karting, track days, and skid pans are just the right playgrounds for that learning to take place. Karting teaches balance, grip, cornering and braking very effectively, as without suspension and rear differential, the rear scrubs and loses grip easily. Track days give you the sense of speed and cornering real cars offer, and skid pans allow one to learn corrective actions when grip is lost. To go fast, you have to know how to go slow, and it doesn't just mean low speed.
I sometimes get people tailgating me on a lonely country road, seeing road is clear, why won't I go 20+km/h faster. Truth be told, I drive on cruise control set to GPS-corrected speed, precisely at the limit. Their tailgating stops quickly when a sharp corner comes, when they discover they can't handle their car at the limit, while I happily balance it out and take it at 5-10 above, release gas pedal, set cruise back to what it was.
I paid for the car I’m dam right I’m gonna push it to it’s limit
Somebody has a small ... ;) feeling sorry for you!
My city has been such a racing track the last few days that I have seen high speed chases going on. The other day, some guy was doing a 0-100 into a Citroen Xsara Picasso and he was LUCKY to stop. It made me laugh. And then I saw a Mini and an Audi chasing each other. I mean, I love going fast myself, that's something I have a borderline addiction to doing. So yes, as much as I can, I try to go fast. But, I also try to be safe while speeding away in the night.
When people say, "Don't speed." It's a huge majority of teens and other young or even older drivers not taking their car's performance and their reaction time into consideration, they don't think about safety which is probably why I see a lot of those Hellcats crash on the news. Good to think about the border on your car's limit, bro. 😎
@@TwohundredSeventy I live in an area where hardly anyone drives defensively anymore. My father is the only defensive driver left in town that I know of. Everyone else, except few others, think the town is a racing stadium. And yes, the one major street where people love to go beyond the meter, I was crossing the road and very nearly got myself killed. That's how bad it's gotten. And then, a guy was too fast and wouldn't let me pass the crosswalk. I had to run for my life. I'm fine, but now I am traumatized. If I ever crossed the road again, next time i'll just walk on the curb and let people try to overtake me or hide. Less risky than walking from grass to grass. (My town doesn't have so much crosswalks, so)
@@RadiusDevTeam-cv7ou Yeah, my place isn't as bad but nobody is used to people crossing the streets so nobody is really that defensive when it comes to our intersections.
Unfortunately speeding in built up areas reduces flow due to frequent junctions and obstacles that have to be negotiated. Going a slower speeds gives everyone more time to read the road an manoeuvre/filter/turn ect more smoothly.
The slower you approach a junction, for instance, the better chance you have of negotiating it without coming to a full stop which saves on fuel, and as you only need to break very gently when you do need to stop, it saves wear and tear on the breaking system... Also when you don't accelerate to higher speed than necessary every dammed time there is less wear and tear on the vehicle components generally.
It's a lot less noisy and less anti social to drive a lower speeds and makes day to day life safer/less stressful for cycles/pedestrians and people in the area generally.
Driving conservatively and considerately at lower speeds, while planning ahead and maintaining flow IS challenging to do with finnese and you get better at it so it satisfying. You can always go out to a motorway if you feel the need for some speed where it is safe.
Let's be real and not so naive.... speeding at (at harsh point to point velocity around urban areas) is not so much about "challenge" its mainly about the feeling of power as if being a big strong animal "get out of my way or else", otherwise its about exhilaration as a fairground roller-coaster, it's not really about challenge at all. Anyone who's reasonably confident having learnt to drive can accelerate hard and break hard "accelerbreaking" up and down little 20/30 residential/urban streets as the system has bent backwards to accommodate simplistic belligerent driving for generations now.
Thank God! Another normal person. I don't feel it's about power though because they're cowards and their speeding angers me to a boiling rage, so I threaten to fight them every car I see and nobody does. So they're not that tough or powerful. Plus when you're actually an adult, with a family, who has the energy to drive fast? It actually takes more thought and more energy and exertion to drive fast, it's not a comfortable, chill thing like just driving normal is. We need more Police patrolling because not enough of these scumbags get busted.
@@JoeGallo43 I think there really needs to be a a way to call out/pull people up on their lousy driving without leaning on police or court time in the "first" instance.
It should be possible to submit evidence to the licensing authority and on a simple review it should be actionable as a licencing penalty, the offender can be notified when they next stop at the pump/fast charger and they can be the one to initiate court proceedings if they feel any seemingly clear evidence has miss represented something somehow.
Minor infractions should not be a criminal matter in the first instance, just a licencing penalty issue as you agree to maintain a licence when you take one up. Only in more serious cases after the fact of a serious accident or such reckless endangerment that a serious accident would be inevitable without law enforcement
Just for actioning minor breaches license It could be possible to get government approved device, tamper proof with calibration certificate, that can reliably read decibels, speed, record time and location, decent camera lenses ect. Wouldn't be cheap to lease, would be used in a certain way under agreement and tampering or miss use could be legally punishable as well ect, however at the moment the only way to call someone up on their nonsense is either for a police to be present or a overt and easily circumvented speed camera ect.
Otherwise if you record something as a member of the public and want to press charges it requires a whole set of court proceedings, so there is only so much that can be done when leaning on police and court time in the first instance. Things like setting more reasonable speed limits often won't be done because it will have to be considered how "enforceable" it is...
@@leifcian4288 new speed limits sound like a good idea, up everything 20 MPH and I’ll be happy, although that would mean Emily, the 16 year old girl driving her brand new $30,000 CR-V from mommy would be driving that fast with me. Idc what y’all say speeding is fun and if you try to yell at me at a red light, I’ll just turn my music up and drown you out, I don’t care
@@trenttilger1165Well yeah that's what I was saying, people like to drive their cars the same way people like fairground rollercoasters n such. There's a time and place though, not around where people are living day to day. Really, sophisticated motor vehicles are not children's toys and shouldn't be abused like that so lightly... There's generally no point in just shouting at certain people at red lights though...
@@leifcian4288 you know what, I totally respect that opinion like genuinely I do, but speeding is mine and many others escape from reality, I don’t have the money to go to the strip every week so I get my speed out on highways and high speed roads (55 or higher) unless it’s not busy
i found the top speed of my car last night, its 150mph 😬
Not bad! What kind of car?
@@TheBlackopsbeast360 oh a 2015 amg cla 45
@@PurestAsh My 2001 Ford Puma has top speed of little under 210km/h. So far I had gone 190km/h and I plan to make it over 200km/h one day.
The part at the end about using an average speed on the dashboard to stop people speeding, that would just encourage me to get the number as high as possible.
If im bored i just go to a country lane and floor it. Driving is my passion
Driving at the speed limit, or just slightly over, actually feels more unsafe to me than doing 10 to 15 miles per hour over the limit (or in some cases way over). Reason being, whenever I drive at or around the limit I am constantly being passed by other drivers and it feels like I'll be rear ended or side swiped at some point...
I could never speed because I can't stomach the thought of risking other peoples lives around me and also what if they have kids in the backseat of their car.
I drive fast but I don’t get a thrill out of it. You people are just used to these slow ass speed limits and think you’ll die if u go above it
“You won’t get to the bottom of speeding in a Prius.” - Abraham Lincoln
Driving over speed limit decreases chance of falling asleep and being tired over long distance
Shouldn't be driving tired at all. You should swap with another driver if the distance is really that long.
@@leifcian4288and what if you have no friends
@@Austin_Boath Stop and rest somewhere.
@@leifcian4288 i got places to be G. that's why I drove for 12 hours without stopping.
Good to see some real logic. In Australia the police just want to put up more and more canaflauged speed cameras
I get it. But i hate folks that speed in-between traffic and they usual kill themselves or others. I hate it. I rather go to a raceway or something.
I can’t wait to get my license, I always loved driving since 11 it’s a thrill to me!, Me and the boys will be doing pulls on the highway
I have a few months im so hyped to race my friends
Its good fun but remember to test those limits on empty roads
It is a health and mental issue. An anxiety that needs to be alleviated. This Doctor tries to rationalize it and give polls and statistics but again it's just a public danger.
The other night while heading home on the e-way another driver must've saw me approaching them at around 90-95mph, my typical going home speed. They sped up to about 100mph once I got close. For the next couple of miles we raced each other doing 120 (the max my car can go). We gave each other 👍 as I came to my exit. Hella fun. Can't wait to do that on a Harley!
i ride a sportbike, and its not the bike cause anything i put my hands on i just wanna go fast and reckless even with a scooter or a minivan.. i cant help it. i think i need help
I hate driving!!!!!! Prefer to be a passenger (except when my mother is driving cuz she's painfully slow!!!)
2:32 that van driver having his own fun
I do it just to feel something
im just insane bro
this seems like propaganda
So it is called the beeper 1:45
"fun?"
honestly, to make the road safer, government has to make at least a highway with no speed limit; city roads would be much safer
Totally wrong.
Yeah OK so eddy the expert thinks he knows why we speed ! ..So let me tell you about the theory of sppeedd firstly you are only speeding if someone say you are ! ie the authorities ! so this is directly proportional to the abilities of the driver ! so the Authorities think we are all crappy drivers and we should not be allowed to go over 60Kmh because we aren't capable of the skills necessary to do it safely ! WHY ??..simply because the test and exam you are required to pass to get your licence really isn't good for anything more than a wheel barrow , the problem here is this responsibility is left to Motor Driving Schools WHO in reality don't teach you how to drive they only teach you how to pass the Driving test ! so YES they are right most drivers on the road do not have the required skills to drive faster than 60Kmh !....Secondly Why I drive faster than 60 Kmh is because at 60Kmh I can do window shopping !!....It is that slow I actually lose concentration on what I'm doing and start looking for something else to do to prevent me from slipping into a coma !!!...This brings me to my third point ! When you drive fast you are busy driving you don't have time for anything else , you are busy driving and you attention is solely on the task at hand fast drivers are safe drivers as long as the driver has the skill to match the speed !...TEACH BETTER SKILLS ! .........and safety would be higher !
The fact that you are perhaps better trained and more highly skilled than most drivers does not justify your breaking the legal speed limit.
@@jbm71 🆗 Mr Plod👮
I'll bet you are fun at Parties!
@@shakespeare_hall4788 It simply is not true that “fast drivers are safe drivers as long as the skill matches the speed”. Skill does not make you immune from the much greater physical forces (kinetic energy) present at higher speeds. Your braking distance is four times as long at 100 mph than at 50 mph, regardless of skill.
@@jbm71
If he's a skilled driver, he knows the brake distance. The problem is that his speeding encourages bad drivers to race him.
From a Jungian perspective, I would suggest that those who attain a state of flow when speeding might have a preference for Extraverted Sensing (Se)
We do it so that the voices in our head can go quiet for a bit
All motorways = racing zone
No that's not it especially residential areas
People drive fast because their scared of being approached in traffic and terrorised harmed ect. Mostly vans go fast because they carry goods ect so to protect themselves and goods
Nonsense.
I hit 150mph before my car wouldn’t accelerate anymore.
Try not to max out like that too much you might spin out
I was driving really fast
So boring... Moreover: so obvious.
Literally me
It’s kinda funny actually. My addiction speed has to do directly with money lmao. I (19) don’t have the cash to buy a wheel, petals, and heavy PC for a sim racing experience so instead I’m forced to drive fast irl in my family’s Ford Fusion v6. I mean, I just want to *feel* and see the speed, even if it’s on a screen, but thanks to capitalism, inflation, and consumerism I’m stuck being dangerous and doing it irl I guess. 🤷♂️
Speeding is more than that. For me its part of my person, my beliefs, my freedom. Its gutting nowadays to be monitored everywhere and every UK road clogged not with Drivers but just "car users". Defensive driving being promoted over proactive driving. Its painful for someone like me, but who would understand? Maybe a % of petrolheads and motorcyclists.
Oh YES the Beautiful Stomp
i've been exposed
🌹 Accept Challenges 😀
I drive at 105 mph (my car is electronically limited or i'd go faster) on days that end in Y! I am highly skilled and just feeling the "flow" from outsmarting the police out looking for speeders! I could teach others how... But I Won't!
How are you outsmarting the police at 105 they'd catch you easy over here
@@wendigo90yago62 drive like a ninja, don't make sudden Lane changes and be very patient. If you drive like a maniac you'll not only attract the police but people with cell phones will take pictures and video. If you drive with a smooth finesse even while speeding you can appear to not be.
@@maxskullic9879 Wow so you're still at it. Thanks for the advice
But my question is how do people control the steering wheel so easily while driving fast!?!?!?
Know your limits, know your car and the road that you are speeding then you should be good
The trick is to gently guide the car as if you're finessing a woman. Don't whitenuckle the wheel because then every little movement results in an unstabilasing jurk
just a sense in the car anyone can have as long as you maintain your composure you will be fine. it's a feeling you get when you really connect with the car and your not driving it rather you are one with the machine
A year late but I'm very well known for "driving like a idiot"
"Mr dukes of hazard"
And I REALLY wanna follow the law bc I fear getting a ticket or rather racking up speed sensor tickets.
I drive a basic bottom model 2012 nissan juke. I know exactly how my tires will react, where my steering wheel will be and where I need to look. If I take a right turn at a stop light going 45 mph I know whether or not my car will "jump" and how I compensate depends on that.
Every. Single. Day. I look at my car with such a pride and appreciation it follows through into my driving.
I'm 19 almost 20. I fell in love with my car and pushing its cute but tightly compacted 4 cylinder engine, suspension, breaks and tires. Find a car that you look at everyday with the same level of chest filling pride that I have? You and the car become one (yes i know that sounds corny) ;)
he calls fast driving doing 32 on a 30