How much time do you save when you speed?

Question

if you went 20 over the normal highway speed limit or 10-15 over an urban speed limit, how much time do you save?

say that your trip was about 50 miles away on a highway, how much time do you save by being more dangerous?

do you speed?
how much time do you think you save?

i'm about to drive soon, and most of my friends speed and stuff,
but does that save vital time?
i guess it does if it was an emergency, but how much?

and how much more gas do you use as opposed to the normal speed limit?

Answer 1

You save very little time. Not enough to worry about. You will use more gas, which costs money. You may get a speeding ticket which is very expensive and costs lots of time in court. You may have an accident which will cost a fortune and you may injure or kill someone. Not worth it to arrive somewhere 5 minutes sooner is it? Leave early or on time for your destination.

Answer 2

I travel 80mph on the freeway...as much as possible. I have two tickets this year for doing over 80+ mph and have had maybe 12 speeding tickets over the 17 years I have been driving. This years tickets actually ruined 6 good years of being ticket free. Can't wait for insurance renewal time.
As for saving time, I save maybe 5 minutes on a 5 mile trip to work. Nothing spectacular.
During long distance drives I have noticed people that I passed 30 minutes ago breezing buy on the freeway while I refuel the tank.
Not a real time saver there unless you do speeds of 85 or more.
As for being dangerous, not all speeding is. Sure, doing 120 through rush hour traffic for a thrill is very dangerous but just because someone speeds doesn't mean they are dangerous all the time. For instance, I do 25 in residential areas because there is just too great a chance to hurt a child or animal. In 35mph zones, I may do 40-45 in light traffic. Get me on the freeway though and I love to drive fast. I used to do 100-120mph every day when I was younger just because I could. I hold a distance record with my friends of 52 miles in 28 minutes from Columbus, OH to Marysville, OH. I stopped driving at insane speeds though when an ex-girlfriend died in a car accident. It was because she was speeding and not wearing a seat belt.
I also suggest that all beginning drivers take a high performance driving course at a race track. It will teach you how to control the car and be a much safer driver. Driver's ed classes teach nothing about real life car control and accident avoidance.

Answer 3

At night and when there is no traffic. I sometimes speed and it turns a 25min trip to a 15min trip. Its mostly freeway commute(i only speed there) and I can hit 85 to 110mph depending on how ballsy I feel. During the day going to work there is more traffic. I timed myself during the day by driving normally and by speeding. I found that I get 1 to 8 min quicker by speeding however its not always the same since sometimes I get stuck behind traffic or a red light. I see people weaving in and out of traffic on the street or freeway but I find that about 70% of the time I catch up to them after a few miles because he/she got caught at a red light or behind slower traffic. I found its pointless to speed during the day due to to much traffic but at night or non-commute hours its a different story.

I drive a vette and a 73 pickup(I cant speed in this), Im not worried about gas savings.

Answer 4

Transit time is inversely proportional to speed. It's very simple, really.

t = d/s

where t is transit time, d is distance, and s is speed. Say d is 100 miles, and s is 50 mph.

t = 100/50 = 2 hours

Now increase speed to 60 mph

t = 100/60 = 1.67 hours, or 1 hour, 40 minutes.

However, the kinetic energy of motion increases as the square of velocity

2e = mv^2

where e is kinetic energy, m is mass, and v^2 is velocity squared. While 60 mph is 20% faster than 50 mph, the kinetic energy of the vehicle and occupants is 44% greater. So, while speed decreases transit time, it increases the energy of impact in a collision exponentially. The time saved in speeding becomes moot if you do not arrive at your destination in one piece.

Answer 5

This want answer you question. I don't think! I live just off I-20 in Birmingham and Atlanta is 160 miles away to get on I-75 South..
Now you can leave Birmingham on State HWY 280 going to Florida. However; the truckers will go three hours out of their way to connect with I-75 in Atlanta to any destinations in Florida, and they will beat you there if you take the HWY's South from Alabama to Florida.

Answer 6

confident. the same is going with saving human beings suited previously they hit the floor...ya prefer time to decelerate or besides the fact that if some one catches you you will nonetheless die. in spite of this they are comedian books and the very actuality that individuals (or alien i assume for Superman) are working around on the fee of sound is nearly ridiculous in itself. exciting to income although. the only time I easily have considered this theory displayed in comedian books is whilst Spider-guy tries to keep Gwen Stacy from a fall and her neck breaks.

Answer 7

You would only save a few minutes tops. It's not really worth it. But going too slow can also be just as dangerous as going too fast.

Answer 8

And how much time do you waste while that nice officer is writing out your ticket?

Answer 9

IT DOESN'T MATTER !

as long as you don't have a BMW you can't buy any time :)