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Wow, her feed is such an echo chamber.. pretty much everyone's profile pic there features them wearing Glass.

She passed a cop doing 80 in a 65, I wonder what was so distracting that you'd miss a cruiser one lane over..

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Doing 80 in a 65 is the entirety of the 101 and 280, outside of rush hour, when it's 20 in a 65.

That's the bog standard response when anyone gets pulled over for speeding.

And the reason for that response is that US speed limits tend to be unreasonably low for a given road when driving a modern car.

And I suppose like every good software engineer on HN, you are an expert in civil and transportation engineering?

What's engineering got to do with it? Maximum speed limits are set by law, not by science. Heck, sometimes road engineers push for higher speed limits. http://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2011/09/be-...

Engineers design roads around traffic speeds - a higher intended traffic speed has ramifications for how the road is designed and built.

Sounds like somebody likes to sit in the left lane at 65, "because it's the legal maximum!"

The end result is, someone was ticketed for speeding-BFD. It inevitably happens to most drivers, and its not the end of the world, especially because if you can afford Glass, you're probably going to be able to afford a ticket. Only on HN do we have people second guessing the entire concept of speed limits, and making all sorts of excuses for something so trivial as a speeding ticket being given out.

along 101 between sf and southbay, 80 is normal flow in left most lanes (or should be unless some asshat in a prius is smugly going 65 while 25 cars are flashing their brights in vain and forced to dangerously weave across 3 lanes to pass)

and for those who drive 101, please be considerate and keep up, or keep right.

i see this as fair game. 80(or 90 on a good pieces of 280) in a 65 is fine as long as you pay enough attention to the driving to notice a cop and slow down a bit. If you don't pay enough attention - well, you just shouldn't drive 80 ( sometimes, when i'm really tired late after work, i drive in the right at 60-65)

No, I know those roads well. Most people drive 75 on those two roads outside of rush hour. There are those who drive 80, but they are outliers.

People miss them all the time, while not wearing Glass.

Since you looked at all the comments, you should have noticed that she was not using the glass, and thought she was in a 75 zone. So I'm at a loss as to what you're implying..

Where is she from that she thought it was a 75 zone? There are none in all of California. Hours away on the 101, there is a 70 mph zone. Certainly nowhere around here.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speed_limits_in_the_United_Stat...

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