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Originally Posted by p38fln
This thread just made me think of my pet peeve when driving -
BRIDGES!
There's one here that's particularly bad for this. Usually this is how it happens - I'll be in the slow lane, with the cruise on, at 55 MPH being passed by EVERYTHING in sight. As soon as the roadway starts to climb to the top of the bridge, a few people start to slow down, and when the bridge narrows (It doesn't have emergency lanes but the driving lanes are full sized), I'm still in the passing lane, doing 55 MPH, and passing EVERYONE - then when the road lowers again, they all pass me again.
I don't know what it is, something about being high in the air makes people drive slower. Drives me crazy!
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It's a psychological thing. As soon as the perception of room on the sides closes in, regardless of whether the driving lane changes size, people instinctively slow. I run into the same thing in Denver through construction zones; there is one in particular where the speed limit is lowered to 45 and then heads downhill, but people are still hauling butt at 60. I start coasting just before the peak at 45mph, and at the bottom the shoulders go away everyone else is braking hard. If the traffic is not too heavy I'll have picked up speed to 50mph at the bottom just starting to catch everyone -- I usually will not have to brake.
It's strange to see so many mindless cattle on the road.