You’re lucky then, count your blessings. Our last lifestyle visit the cart was brutal….we had people passing us every time we went out.

If you're in a golf cart and there's no one in front of you look back. If there's carts close behind please pull over and let them pass you.

This is much the same with left lane drivers.

It's called courtesy but apparently is a foreign concept to many people.

My lifestyle cart topped out at 15 MPH back when.

20 MPH fast enough IMO in most golf carts with rear breaks and top heavy. and especially when comes to sudden stop.

Agree. Sit back and enjoy the journey.

I'm getting quite sick of hearing "you're retired, what's the rush" for the last 7 years.
Sorry, but I look at it a different way: I have 15, maybe 20 good years left, so I can either:

A) enjoy golf, shows, concerts, movies, games, etc., or....

B) Sit behind some bozo going 14 mph on a MMP or driving 30 in the left lane of 466A or 60 in the left lane of I-75

I choose A, but everyone is free to choose for themselves. (just don't do it in front of me:1rotfl::1rotfl::1rotfl:)

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But I don't.

My mantra, whether in a car or a cart is "Fast in front, slow in back", which serves to remind me that the world is full of people who are, amazingly, different from me. In a car, if possible, I'm a 7mph over the speed limit guy. Which means I have to pass some folks, but also there are a lot of folks who want to pass me.
A similar dynamic exists when I am in my golf cart. So....it's not too tough really....let the faster people around me, and they are in front of me and no longer a problem for me, and pass the slower people.
Judging the character of people based upon the fact that they want to drive a few miles an hour slower or faster than I drive seems like a waste of my mental energy.
"Fast in front, slow in back"....works for me.

So, you all never pass anybody? Whatever speed the cart in front of you is going is OK with you, you just ease back and smell the roses?

never had anything even remotely like that happen to me and I've lived here 12 years

Bumper sticker
 

I was recently following a golf cart that had a bumper sticker that may apply here.
I may be a little off but close.

“I am not part of your Hurry!”

I like that thought.

I think that thought is idiotic
If that's the case, pull over and get out of the way.
You never know why someone is "in a hurry"---medical emergency, potty emergency, late to give the eulogy at a funeral for another cart speeder, etc.

Well, doc might as well get sicker cause there nothing can be done about it. Just wait In 15 years or sooner you may be the one going 14 MPH or in left lane going 30. :)

I have passed many golf carts and have been passed by golf carts. Not once have I said anything to them or have any of them said anything to me. No one giving the finger or yelling obscenities. You pass a slower cart, or a faster cart passes you, no big deal. It’s no different than when I’m on the road in my car and I pass someone, or someone passes me, there are no reactions, no fingers, no obscenities. Do these people really exist, or is this another Villages urban myth...

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It's called hyperbole:1rotfl::1rotfl::1rotfl:

Actually, when I'm going 20mph legal maximum speed and get passed, I wonder what gives this special individual the right to operate an unregistered motor vehicle on our roads? No need to pass anyone going 20mph ever.

do you ever knowingly exceed the posted speed limit in your automobile?

Interesting, so you’ve never passed someone while driving 60 in a 55 zone? If you have, are you a “special individual”?!?

To which the response is:

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And there is another reason to pass someone going 20, and that is that while they may be just hitting 20 on a straightaway, they might be slowing to 8 on every curve, every tunnel, every time another vehicle is coming in the opposite lane. Don't tell me that doesn't happen, because it most certainly does. If I'm going 5 or 6 miles, I definitely do not want to be behind that bozo.

Basically, YOU don't get to dictate what anyone else does

I could be wrong but I think you are not supposed to cross a solid white line so technically you are not supposed to pass.

In which case you could never pass a cyclist going 3 mph or a pedestrian walking in the cart lane, nor could you ever make a left turn either. The best explanation I have seen (which might be right or wrong), is that it is a "one way" solid white line. Cars should not cross it (and that's why the line is broken at an intersection that is on your right side so they can turn right), but carts can cross it to make a left turn or pass. Have not found anything that officially addresses this in the Florida statutes

Cars are registered motor vehicles. 20mph + golf carts are not, unless they are designated "street legal". And then, they are limited to 25mph.

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That is correct. And your point is......

I will pass your entitled ox cart any time I need to.

Both of our carts are set to max out at the legal speed limit. Based on that I will make two general observations. When we were at our Villages home between Christmas and April 1st, people were always flying up behind me and usually passed despite the fact I was driving the legal limit. Since I got back down here last week, I have not been passed a single time. In fact, I seem to frequently get stuck behind people driving well below the legal limit. I guess it can be generalized that snowbirds like to fly in their carts, while many frogs are content to slowly hop down the multi-modal paths.

Don’t recall white solid lines on the multi modal paths.

you've chosen not to answer the question, which was "do you ever knowingly drive faster than the posted speed limit?"

the laws you choose to break or bend are laws that are OK to break or bend by a tiny little bit, however, if it's a law you've decided not to break or bend, then it is a sacred law, and that little bit of leeway you allow yourself in one circumstance, shouldn't be allowed to another person in a different circumstance. And you describe others as "entitled".

Cars are designed to safely exceed the speed limit. Hit a curb going 25mph in a car won't kill you. Hit a curb going 25mph in a golf cart and see what happens. There is a reason why golf carts are limited to 20mph. Even 20mph is probably too fast for safe sensible driving.

I think there's a big difference between someone passing when the guy ahead of him is going only 12mph in a golf cart, and someone passing in the same area when the guy ahead of him is going 20. The actual speed limit for non-street-legal golf carts is 19.8mph. If you're on a golf cart path or MMP, no one should be passing you in a golf cart, if you are going 19.8mph or faster. If they're passing you, then THEY are breaking the law.

And that's okay - if they want to break the law, then it's on them if they get caught. It's not your headache. If they cause an accident and you're there to witness it, you can tell your observation to the police if they ask for your statement.

The only time I think I'd make a fuss, is if they're passing me on a precarious section of road. Like that rickety bridge off Morse Blvd by 466. Or any of the golf cart bridges. Or around any bend where you can't see what's coming toward you. On a straight-away though? Screw it. Let them pass. It's one less idiot you have to deal with behind you.

I’m from Jersey. I don’t recall passing anyone in our Cart. Trust me, the Cart is capable of easily doing so but I’m usually the new improved version of the NJ version. I don’t wanna tee anyone off and I’m hardly ever in a hurry. Slow is the way, steady is the course.

there is a little bit of risk in everything we do. 20mph in a cart is OK? But 21 mph makes you entitled?
My cart has been adjusted to top out at 22mph. I get passed often. I have never seen one of those carts smashed up immediately after passing me.
Cars are designed to be safe at 5 mph over the speed limit? Really?? Ever seen what happens to a car when it crashes at 50 mph? How about at 70mph? That is the speed limit on many interstates. I'd rather be in a cart at 22mph, myself, but to each his own.

Duh. Not talking about those.

what's wrong with passing another golf cart? Does this upset people? why?

Not as far as I'm concerned.

Evidently.

I have no clue.

Life is too short to care if your golf cart is passed. If it ruins your whole day then you have personal problems.

I have been passed and I have passed slow carts. I survived each time and went on with my day.