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Bogie Shooter 08-02-2014 08:49 AM
Believe it or not......................this is a golf cart community!
Why not drive like you are aware of that fact?

kittygilchrist 08-02-2014 08:56 AM
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Originally Posted by Bogie Shooter (Post 917315)
Believe it or not......................this is a golf cart community!
Why not drive like you are aware of that fact?
OK, let's lower the speed limit to 25 so we're all doing a similar speed. You can't change everybody's behavior by posting on here.
Reality is what it is.

Bogie Shooter 08-02-2014 08:58 AM
No need to change any speed limits.

kittygilchrist 08-02-2014 09:23 AM
Quote:
Originally Posted by Bogie Shooter (Post 917323)
No need to change any speed limits.
Changing speed limits is possible. Changing how most people drive is not.

memason 08-02-2014 09:35 AM
Quote:
Originally Posted by kittygilchrist (Post 917220)
We all know the speed limits aren't going to change.
And we know that frustrated drivers will continue to pass slow-moving vehicles.
And LSV drivers will continue to be involved in accidents and die.

Maybe someone who has read this thread will choose to get off the street and stay alive.
I hope so.
Just how many LSV drivers have DIED on the streets ???

CraigC 08-02-2014 09:42 AM
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Originally Posted by kittygilchrist (Post 917334)
Changing speed limits is possible. Changing how most people drive is not.
Exactly!! I agree that changing the speed limit is not going to happen, but posting on here that this is a golf cart community obviously is not going to make a difference. I think all but the morons realize this is a golf cart community as it has been one for 40+ years. Posting "what's the hurry, this is a retirement community" doesn't seem to make much of an impact either. I've been here two years and have seen one of these two statements or a variant of the two at least a couple of thousand times. I'm starting to come to the conclusion that maybe they aren't having much of an impact.

kittygilchrist 08-02-2014 10:12 AM
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Originally Posted by CraigC (Post 917357)
Exactly!! I agree that changing the speed limit is not going to happen, but posting on here that this is a golf cart community obviously is not going to make a difference. I think all but the morons realize this is a golf cart community as it has been one for 40+ years. Posting "what's the hurry, this is a retirement community" doesn't seem to make much of an impact either. I've been here two years and have seen one of these two statements or a variant of the two at least a couple of thousand times. I'm starting to come to the conclusion that maybe they aren't having much of an impact.
Well i know for a fact that when i spent 3 years commuting 2 hours a day on interstate-75, I was powerless about how other people drove. I learned a lot about traffic flow, and am grateful to know there is a 2013 law for ticketing slowbies in the fast lane.

Some legislators must have read the stats on what causes accidents?

NoMoSno 08-02-2014 10:28 AM
It is still legal to drive 60mph, in the "fast" lane. :cus:

kittygilchrist 08-02-2014 10:34 AM
Quote:
Originally Posted by memason (Post 917351)
Just how many LSV drivers have DIED on the streets ???
I give up...how many?

Status Report
LSVs not crashworthy. Institute of Highway Safety

mickey100 08-02-2014 02:28 PM
We come from ny where it is common courtesy for slower drivers to be in the right lane, and faster drivers use the left lane. I don't know how many times on rt. 466 for example that I got behind some vehicle doing about 35 in the left lane. This is inexcusable! People thnk that because they have to make a left turn a mile or two down the road they can drive below the speed of traffic flow in that left lane. If you're driving slower than everyone else, stay to the right.

Chazz 08-02-2014 02:50 PM
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Originally Posted by cattywampus (Post 917180)
I watched a balding man come real close to be seriously hurt or killed on Morse Blvd
Friday August 1, 2014. Sometime between 2 and 3 pm.

He drove a Tannish Color Golf Cart over the Morse Bridge .
He was heading NORTH toward cr466.He had one set of golf clubs
and a Current Florida Plate.

An Auto cut around me like a bat out of hell, I was going 25 in a 35.
(I was being slowed by the 25 mph Golf cart in the road .
If I went faster, I would have run over the Golf Cart.)

As the Auto cut around me and then cut back in to get in front of me,
the driver of the Auto looked back at me and flipped me the bird.
He was totally unaware of the Golf Cart that was in front of me.

Since the driver of the Auto did not see the golf cart in the road in front of me ,
HE NEARLY CLIPPED THE REAR OF THE GOLF CART WHO WAS merrily SLOWING THE FLOW OF TRAFFIC.

Thank God for ABS Brakes and Traction Control or I would have hit the guy who cut around me
when he spiked his brakes to avoid the Golf Cart that was hidden from his view in front of me.

The Golf Car driver waited for the light to cross cr466 and then continued on his merry way
North bound on Morse. He had no idea he had nearly met his maker.

Legally , the Golf Cart driver had every RIGHT to be there.
However, he was almost DEAD RIGHT.

How the other Auto missed the Golf Cart is a mystery.
From this story, some will take it that the, presumably, LSV should not be on the road. Others will believe that the bird flipping vehicular psychotic should not be out in civilization, yet alone behind the wheel of a car. I lean toward the latter.

Chazz 08-02-2014 02:55 PM
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Originally Posted by mikeod (Post 917215)
So the solution for bad auto drivers is to get the LSVs off the road? IMO, if a driver can't safely negotiate traffic at different speeds, perhaps that person should be the one off the road.

No, I don't drive an LSV.

Be careful, someone will come along and argue that motorcycles, because they are smaller and hard to see, are a hazard.
Well said, Mike! I'll bet some on this forum believe that motorcycles are a hazzard on the road. So are trucks and scooters and the dreaded bicycle. As a matter of fact, I wouldn't be surprised if some think they are the only ones who are not a road hazzard. So much for "sharing the road."

Chazz 08-02-2014 03:07 PM
Quote:
Originally Posted by kittygilchrist (Post 917378)
I give up...how many?

Status Report
LSVs not crashworthy. Institute of Highway Safety
None.

The reference you posted shows that the Gem car is not as safe as a Smart Car, in crash tests. It is not designed to be as crash-worthy as a car. However, it is more crash-worthy than a motorcycle, motor scooter or a bicycle. If your point is that only the most crash-worthy vehicle should be driven on the road, should we all be allowed to only drive the highest crash tested vehicles? The safest part of any vehicle is the driver behind the wheel.

Chazz 08-02-2014 03:09 PM
Quote:
Originally Posted by kittygilchrist (Post 917334)
Changing speed limits is possible. Changing how most people drive is not.
Severely punishing those who drive unsafely and illegally is also possible.

CFrance 08-02-2014 03:31 PM
Quote:
Originally Posted by cattywampus (Post 917180)
I watched a balding man come real close to be seriously hurt or killed on Morse Blvd
Friday August 1, 2014. Sometime between 2 and 3 pm.

He drove a Tannish Color Golf Cart over the Morse Bridge .
He was heading NORTH toward cr466.He had one set of golf clubs
and a Current Florida Plate.

An Auto cut around me like a bat out of hell, I was going 25 in a 35.
(I was being slowed by the 25 mph Golf cart in the road .
If I went faster, I would have run over the Golf Cart.)

As the Auto cut around me and then cut back in to get in front of me,
the driver of the Auto looked back at me and flipped me the bird.
He was totally unaware of the Golf Cart that was in front of me.

Since the driver of the Auto did not see the golf cart in the road in front of me ,
HE NEARLY CLIPPED THE REAR OF THE GOLF CART WHO WAS merrily SLOWING THE FLOW OF TRAFFIC.

Thank God for ABS Brakes and Traction Control or I would have hit the guy who cut around me
when he spiked his brakes to avoid the Golf Cart that was hidden from his view in front of me.

The Golf Car driver waited for the light to cross cr466 and then continued on his merry way
North bound on Morse. He had no idea he had nearly met his maker.

Legally , the Golf Cart driver had every RIGHT to be there.
However, he was almost DEAD RIGHT.

How the other Auto missed the Golf Cart is a mystery.
Why was a street legal cart going 25 in a 35? Aren't they allowed to go 35?
Both of these idiots were wrong. But one was also a jacka**.


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