# Morons causing clusterfucks on the interstate **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [October 12, 2006, 6:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/morons-causing-clusterfucks-on-the-interstate/376165 "2006-10-12T06:26:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Frank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Frank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frank)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2006, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/morons-causing-clusterfucks-on-the-interstate/376165/61 "2006-10-16T22:54:13Z")
[QUOTE=Boyo Jim] If people are jammed up behind you, then the road is hardly wide open, is it? 😛 ? [/QUOTE] I was once returning from the mountains, and after the point where U.S. 6 joined up with I-70, all three lines where occupied by a driver going exactly 55, and all side-by-side. Not one of them slowed down or sped up one iota for over five minutes. In front of them was almost empty highway, literally for miles, scattered only with those cars and trucks lucky enough to merge before the rolling roadblock. Behind them were hundreds (again, literally) of cars and trucks. I understood that post. ---
**Author:** ![Raygun99](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Raygun99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Raygun99)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2006, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/morons-causing-clusterfucks-on-the-interstate/376165/62 "2006-10-16T23:50:43Z")
[QUOTE=kushiel] I will never complain about going on the highway between Wakaw and Saskatoon again. [/QUOTE] That said, I’ll never quite understand the mentality of so many drivers on the prairies (my particular patch of hell is Kindersley to Saskatoon) – it’s the Prairies! You can literally see for miles. You’ll get another passing chance in like, 5 minutes tops. Just wait and stop trying to kill us. ---
**Author:** ![Klaatu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e0b2c6/32.png) [@Klaatu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Klaatu)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2006, 4:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/morons-causing-clusterfucks-on-the-interstate/376165/63 "2006-10-17T04:37:32Z")
Yep, it’s gonna happen on the freeway during rush hour, but it’s amazingly irritating to be jammed up out there and not have a car for five miles in front of the morons. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2006, 5:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/morons-causing-clusterfucks-on-the-interstate/376165/64 "2006-10-17T05:50:49Z")
[QUOTE=E-Sabbath] There was a wall in Mercedes, in Stuttgart, full of traffic photos of my dad. It _is_ possible to speed on the Autobahn. For example, passing people in a cloverleaf on the inside, is, apparently, forbidden. Who knew? [/QUOTE] Well, passing on the right, anywhere at all on the Autobahn, is forbidden. And there are lots of sections now, mostly the more crowded areas near larger towns and cities, with speed limits. But there are still places without them, too. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Swan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a87d85/32.png) [@The\_Swan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Swan)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2006, 7:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/morons-causing-clusterfucks-on-the-interstate/376165/65 "2006-10-17T07:11:20Z")
Two things I’ve wanted to contribute to this thread: 1. The “experiment” performed in Atlanta failed to take into consideration the fact that roads become blocked when EVERYONE drives at the exact same speed, when all cars are forced to drive at such. Had some drivers been willing to drive slower than 55, the blockage wouldn’t have been so significant. That seems to be why speeding is allowed, to some degree. 2. Every HP trooper I’ve talked to has expressed a willingness to only pull over drivers who are doing 15 mph or more over the posted limit. I know this varies bwtween 10 and 20 in some areas, but 14 over seems to be the standard. YMMV. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/morons-causing-clusterfucks-on-the-interstate/376165.md?page=3)