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[-] BagOfHeavyStones@piefed.social 31 points 21 hours ago

Cruise control so handy.

Set to the speed limit and chill.

If people want to pass that's their problem.

Mind you, in Australia the speed limit is usually followed pretty well.

[-] Pyr_Pressure@lemmy.ca 3 points 12 hours ago

I envy that you have a life where you can use cruise control when you are in your vehicle.

If I am in my vehicle it is usually to go to work, which means crowded highways and people who cut me off or can't maintain their speed worth a damn so if I use cruise control it's only for like 5 seconds before I either have to hit the brakes move into another lane.

[-] BagOfHeavyStones@piefed.social 1 points 5 hours ago

Yes I'm lucky to live in a rural area. I can't always use it as there are hills on some of the roads, and the cruise control will downshift and cane it up the hills which feels mean, but the main highway is mostly fine.

I've never had a car with adaptive cruise control though, which it sounds like you would need. (Follow the speed of the car in front.)

Mind you, in Australia the speed limit is usually followed pretty well.

That's because Australia has realistic speed limits. The US doesn't, and thats why people drive over it all the time.

[-] BananaIsABerry@lemmy.zip 8 points 21 hours ago

I dunno man, 80+ mph on the highway doesn't seem particularly necessary.

Speed limits go up to 130 (80mph) in Australia so seems like they think it's OK.

[-] pupbiru@aussie.zone 4 points 16 hours ago

130 is extremely rare. even 110 is very rare tbh (interstate type roads, and they can often be 100 too)… 80 is our common “fast” speed in metro areas

[-] Pyr_Pressure@lemmy.ca 2 points 12 hours ago

In Canada there is only one highway that I know of which allows up to 120km/h, the rest is 100km/h.

The only speeding ticket I have ever gotten in my life was going 130km/h on the 120km/hr highway.

[-] BootLoop@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 hour ago

Most of the 402 and recently parts of the 403 have been changed to 110km/h in Ontario. These are long stretches with no cities nearby.

[-] caurvo@aussie.zone 2 points 19 hours ago

Yeah, but those highways have like 5 cars and 10 trucks per hour (if that) and none of them are within 1000km from 99% of the population. Slight hyperbole, but they are genuinely only in the deep rural areas. 260k people in 1.4m square kilometres. Every where else top speed is 110, which is between city highways in good condition for the most part.

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