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Originally posted by Cynthetiq
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In California it has been contested that if everyone is going faster than the speed limit and you are going at the speed limit you are causing a hazard to other drivers.
Basic speed laws of California is:
http://www.dmv.ca.gov/pubs/vctop/d11/vc22350.htm
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The same laws also state:
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Maximum Speed Limit
22349. (a) Except as provided in Section 22356, no person may drive a vehicle upon a highway at a speed greater than 65 miles per hour.
(b) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, no person may drive a vehicle upon a two-lane, undivided highway at a speed greater than 55 miles per hour unless that highway, or portion thereof, has been posted for a higher speed by the Department of Transportation or appropriate local agency upon the basis of an engineering and traffic survey. For purposes of this subdivision, the following apply:
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Section (b) is basically supposed to be the trump card, which states that, in spite of any other law that might have been written, you cannot go faster than 55 miles on a highway unless otherwise posted. I'm far from being a lawyer, but the way those laws are written, they look like they're left so wide open to interpretation, it all depends on the now the judge feels.