Do you use cruise control?

[Zand]

I always use it on rural interstates and set it around 73 or so... if I don't use it I'll hit 80+ without realizing it. If I'm on the Pike heading into Boston or going down 84 or something, I just wait for the first line of cars that is going 85 and follow them. And I ALWAYS do the speed limit in any VT town... especially the ones that have 25's. Secondary roads (especially in the NEK) rarely see cops, so those are more ok to go a bit faster. I can't imagine actually doing 50 on a road like Route 2 in Concord VT.

And as an aside, there is no state more annoying than New Hampshire when it comes to drivers that have 20 mph differentials in their speeds every other minute. Having to take 93 to and from school every other weekend, everytime I'm on that road (especially between Tilton and Manchester) there are ALWAYS multiple cars that will blow by me doing 80, then pull in front of me and do 65. When I go to pass them back, right when I get next to them they speed back up to 80, so I fall back in behind them just to have them slow down again. A car started doing this to me on the Pike the other day so I looked at the plates and of course it's NH. Is cruise control illegal in NH or something? This happens to me EVERY time I drive on 93.

 

[Edd]

I use mine as much as possible. I live on the NH seacoast so the rule is: use it going north to Maine, but not going south to Mass.

 

[riverc0il]

Secondary roads (especially in the NEK) rarely see cops, so those are more ok to go a bit faster. I can't imagine actually doing 50 on a road like Route 2 in Concord VT.

The only time I got nailed for speeding when I lived in VT was on Route 2 in Concord, VT coming back from Mount Wash. Only a warning. County cop got me. I've seen him a few times on that road. The more important reason not to speed in that area though is moose. I've seen more Moose on Route 2 than almost any other road.

 

[jrmagic]

Seriously though, if someone is traveling faster than me I'll happily let them go by and then follow them from a safe distance at around the same speed.

I do this too but absolutely hate when I move over to let the guy on my azz go through and then I move back over and find myself on his butt and I've been in cruise control the whole time.

 

[kickstand]

I do this too but absolutely hate when I move over to let the guy on my azz go through and then I move back over and find myself on his butt and I've been in cruise control the whole time.

This happens to me all the time. Or you creep up on someone, move over to pass and next thing you know they're pulling away from you? It's amazing how cruise control shows how inconsistent folks are with the gas pedal. Pick a speed and go with it.....

 

[jrmagic]

This happens to me all the time. Or you creep up on someone, move over to pass and next thing you know they're pulling away from you? It's amazing how cruise control shows how inconsistent folks are with the gas pedal. Pick a speed and go with it.....

Absolutely. it reminds me of a trip I did to VT years ago. My then wife and I in one car and my sister and her husband in the other. I was driving pretty consistently at 70. They would fall way back behind me and then come back up to me , then fall back etc... we get there and they yell at me for doing 90:-o they refused to belive the facts eventhough the trip still took 4 hours. If I was doing 90 it would have been an hour less.