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Originally posted by Ba5tard5word:
When I looked at the California Driver's Handbook or whatever a few years ago, one of the cardinal rules it listed was "drive as fast as it is safe to drive." WTF is that even supposed to mean? Very ambiguous but I think it's a vestige of California being a lawless frontier state...CA is pretty "civilized" these days but you see these types of things here and there in the laws and in other aspects of California life.
What it means is that if you are the guy going 55 in the number 2 lane (Number 1 lane being the fast, or passing lane) in a 5 lane 65mph zone and the rest of the traffic is going 70, YOU are the traffic hazard. It's common sense advice, without coming right out and saying that you can break the speed laws under the right circumstances.