2k1Toaster said:
Had my first weird Leaf experience today while driving down the highway. I have a 2013 with 22K+ miles.
Was about 4 miles into a 12mile highway stint, driving between 90mph and 95mph. Slightly downhill, slightly wet surface, using about half the power to maintain speed. I pulled out of the middle lane to pass a car in the left lane so I put my foot down (all power bubbles) and it went to almost 100mph.
Umm, your dad wouldn't be former Vice President Al Gore, would he?
2k1Toaster said:
LeftieBiker said:
Your Leaf is electronically limited to about 94MPH. I assume the limiter kicked in a bit late. Your common sense was apparently not engaged at all.
I've had the leaf at triple digit speeds many times. I guess I was just going more down-hill...
No idea what you mean about common sense. Speed limits here are set to 75mph, traffic nominally flows between 80mph and 90mph. Like I said I was in the middle lane with people passing me on the left, and then I moved left to pass a vehicle. I realize if you live somewhere where the speed limit is 55mph, you rarely get to those speeds. But this is super common here.
I've also had track and road race experience in half-million dollar cars going in excess of 180mph in full control.
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2k1Toaster said:
When there is a near white out blizzard, the speed drops to about 65mph. We know how to drive around here. 75mph is SLOW here and will get you rear ended. The only vehicles going that slowly are tractor trailers and they are usually cruise controlled to 82mph.
A little wet on the road, or even a couple inches of slush doesn't even register.
I guess the answer is that a combination of the speed limiter along with a max power request shut it down.
OK, interesting it was on a track or in a road race. On a public road, in "near white out blizzard" 2k1Toaster is willing to "drop" the speed to 65 mph. How polite!! But yes, I'm sure he's a better driver than Dale Earnhardt Sr. or Jr. and most of the other drivers on the NASCAR or Indy circuit, so people don't need to worry. Now, the one who should be worried is the crazy insurance company that wrote the policy for him.
In the last couple of months, there have been two fatal accidents, one where a lady who must have been going about 100mph rolled her SUV several times, crossed the median, was ejected, and subsequently run over by a driver headed in the opposite direction. How she didn't kill anybody else is truly a miracle.
http://www.dailyridge.com/en/2017/02/01/polk-county-sheriffs-office-working-fatal-crash-on-98/
"Excessive speed and reckless driving on the part of Ms. Robinson appear to be factors in this crash."
Who would have thought.
The other was the usual crash with a fatality, but I hope people will note the sarcasm. In a third crash, somebody ran off the road, over a walking trail, through a fence, all without wrapping the car around a tree or killing a bicycle rider or walker!!
Here is a memorable one too:
http://jalopnik.com/5981770/police-say-deadly-nissan-gt-rlamborghini-crash-was-not-racing-related, where the fatal crash was
not "racing related." And from the local paper:
http://www.theledger.com/article/LK/20130204/News/608072028/LL/ "Officials Unsure on Fatal Crash Cause" It just happened purely by chance that about a dozen of the fastest cars on earth, I'm sure many in the $500K+ range, gathered on a deserted stretch of pristine, newly paved road near the ongoing construction for Florida Polytech University, I always loved the quote from the guy who survived, "We were cruising and I saw the green Lamborghini coming from the opposite lane,” Phan said. “In the blink of an eye, we crashed — that’s how fast it was.” Ummm, but it wasn't "racing related," but the police did "
suspect that excess speed may have been involved." :shock: (bold added) Phan said no one was racing, and that he and Chan were going about 50 mph, but he wasn’t sure just how fast the Lamborghini was going. “Fast, that’s all I can say.“
And finally, if that isn't enough, there's always the story of the M5 crash at an Ocala airport, complete with months of ominous comments from the teenage driver at other places on the BMW forum:
http://www.m5board.com/vbulletin/e6...n/111545-airstrip-crash-florida-5-killed.html I checked a year or so ago and the lawsuits were still going on about it.
Oh, and I almost forgot about the two college girls, coming home late at night, cruising along fine on the interstate, maybe even at "the speed of traffic", at about 90 mph. BUT, one of the tires blew out, the car went out of control, smashed into a tree and killed both of them. Once again, lawsuits everywhere, the girls were best friends but afterwards the parents of the passenger were suing the parents of the driver, it was so traumatic that the mom of the driver essentially gave up on life, stopped eating, and eventually died.
So, if the lives 21kToaster may save by slowing down don't matter, maybe he'll remember, while that lady just about got to the "Smith Lane" sign before everybody else, I'm left driving past the massive memorial from her heartbroken family every day.