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drethelin comments on Low Hanging fruit for buying a better life - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: Lumifer 08 January 2015 04:41:44PM *  7 points [-]

But in certain places the optimal speed to drive at ... may exceed the legal speed limit

I'll make a stronger claim: in many places (e.g. US highways) the optimal speed to drive does exceed the legal speed limit for the simple reason that the probability of an accident is a function of the difference between your speed and the speed of the traffic around you, and the traffic on interstates generally goes faster than the speed limit.

Comment author: drethelin 09 January 2015 06:05:00PM 2 points [-]

On the other hand I've never been pulled over when doing the same speed as cars around me, and I've been speeding for over a decade at this point.