re: #182 Dark_Falcon

What’s the reasoning behind that?

The people that fly down 285 doing 90 get upset that they have to deal with other people doing 70~75 (the speed limit is 55).

There is no valid reasoning behind this law. We already have minimum speed limits — all interstates, at least in the metro area (I’m not well-traveled in the sticks) have a posted minimum speed of 40. Max tends to be 55 near the city, 65 beyond the limits. The idiots that proposed and voted for this legislation support the Boortzian belief that accidents are caused by slow drivers forcing other people to change lanes, rather than people driving way too damn fast and constantly shifting lanes with no signals.

So now we have this legislation, which says that it’s illegal to be traveling slower than the vehicle behind you. Ostensibly this would mandate that you change to a further-right lane, but in reality you can’t always do that, so if someone is tearing up behind you way past the speed limit, your only legal move is to accelerate — when you’re probably already well over the speed limit, because going less than 70 on a Georgia freeway is suicide.