Hello there. I suppose I should explain what exactly The Speed Law Experiment is. Well, in short, it's a month-long challenge I'm imposing upon myself to never drive over the speed limit.
Here's the full who, what, where, when and why.
Who: Val Cabral, a 23-year-old jobless college grad who manages to do a lot of driving, despite not having so much cash.
What: Exactly one month of driving as close to the speed limit as possible, with the legal margin of 5 mph either way used when it is absolutely necessary.
Where: Southeastern Massachusetts, with frequent trips into Rhode Island and probably a few into New Hampshire.
When: September 11- the birthday- until October 11. Blog updates at least three times a week.
Why: This is the complicated part. There are multiple purposes to this experiment. The first is that I know I drive too fast, and I'd like to see how hard it would be to change that. Another is to discern how difficult it is to truly follow all speed limits when other drivers are taken into account. A third reason is that this will probably save me a ticket- which I almost got today while driving too fast after someone had frustrated me by driving too slowly (though they were, truth be told, going the speed limit). A fourth is to see exactly how others react to someone driving more slowly than they're used to.
So, there you have it! The Speed Law Experiment commences on 9/11/09. Be here to watch my observations from the beginning! My first trip will be from 02379 to 02888. It should be a heck of a drive!
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I've basically been doing this sort of thing for the past year- ever since I got a speeding ticket (for going 42 in a 25 limit area that I thought was a 35). Actually, I'd gotten another ticket about two months before that, for going 66 in a 55 limit area that I thought was a 65. Yeah. One thing that it taught me was that apparently I just need to pay more attention to the limit.
ReplyDeleteIt is hard to drive the speed limit, and mostly, I find, it's because the other drivers don't. When I'm trying to drive the limit, I always feel that other drivers get frustrated with me because I'm going more slowly than they are, or that I'm driving like an old person because I'm not going the speed of traffic (which is often around 10 miles faster than the limit). It also feels weird to have people speed around you to pass when you're already going the limit. But at least you know that there's no way you're going to get pulled over for speeding.
Good luck!