I found some very revealing statistics in the results of the RinkWorks reader pole. If you assume that people who post on the forum are typical(a risky assumption), then 52.7% of drivers get riled over people who drive under the speed limit on a one-lane road. Does that mean that drivers are expected to exceed the limit, or should they set the cruise exactly on the limit so as not to rile traffic cops or the driver behind?
On that question, I checked "tailagaters" so I guess I am one of the drivers who rile the 52.7%.
I don't want to encourage road rage. On the other hand, I don't want to do anything illegal. Okay, I admit it, I fudge on speed limits about 5 or 10%. After 50 years of driving, I've never had a ticket and I've never been rear-ended. I must be doing something right.

One little thing about that question bothered me.
It referred to a "one lane road." I wonder how many people took that for one lane in each direction? Or was it one-lane, one-way, no passing? That might influence the way people voted.

I said I've never been rear-ended, but I've narrowly missed it a few times in recent months. I stop for stop signs. I mean I really STOP. Even if the guy in front of me has already stopped, I pull up to the sign (or the white stripe) and make my own stop. I've read the Uniform Code and that is what the law says, but so often the driver behind expects me to roll on through and since he is looking for traffic to the left and right, he almost runs over me. The problem is that so many people run stop signs, it has become customary, just like treating the maximum legal speed as a minimum.
And that's my two centavos worth.
Howard