Originally Posted by
BarracksSi
Not to get into your business of raising your son, but I have to ask -- was he going at an unreasonably high speed (i.e., 90+ mph)? Or was he going with the flow of the traffic around him?
Particularly on congested freeways, it's much safer to travel at roughly the same speed as everyone else -- not faster, but not slower, either. It's like a herd of cattle out there; run too slow and you just might get run over.
I sure most everyone here relate to this, to go the speed limit in the slow lane in some places and you better have some ramps going over the top of your vehicle. The one incident that sticks in my memory is when the national speed limit was 55 MPH, I was flowing with traffic at 75 MPH in the slow lane and having traffic pass me at 80 to 90 MPH in the fast lane, and in the rear view mirror is a very old female driver in a newer Mercedes diesel just a few feet off my rear bumper. As soon as an opening in the fast lane appeared, she did a Daytona slingshot around me and had that Mercedes up over a 90 MPH in no time at all with black smoke rolling out the exhaust, mere feet off someone else's bumper.