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It would be amazing if speeding was enforced 100%, and then the official limits were pushed up where needed. This business where everyone drives above the limit and cops enforce when they feel like it is annoying and is a big enabler of bias in policing.

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Their selective enforcement in SoCal is annoying. Majority of us are speeding above the limit and they don't even bat an eye. I got a ticket for going above the limit when I was following the flow of the traffic. I guess they are more interested in exercising their power when they felt like it.

100% agreed. Speed limits in their current state are infuriating. They are there, so you're _supposed_ to follow them, but nobody does, not even off-duty police, until someone is patrolling, at which point everyone drives ten under the limit at the checkpoint, only to go 15-30 over seconds later.

Of course, if YOU try following the limits, even on the rightmost lane, lots of drivers will drive aggressively around you as if you're the one in the wrong!

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