Me, passing dozens of cars trapped in traffic while coasting on my bike - I am the embodiment of excellence. Pure ambition. Completely free.

Big "This Scene From The Simpsons" vibes

I am willing to kill us all in a fireball if that's what it takes for me to drive more dangerously and shave 15 seconds off of my trip. You want to kill excellence

The good news is that if they ride a motorcycle like their pfp suggests and they think like this, they probably also refuse to wear a real motorcycle helmet

I find his tweets kind of sad tbh, he goes on to talk about non-speeding drivers being grey people in grey cars with grey lives. The dude clearly sees how empty our lives are in the capitalist system and is terrified of being one of the 99%, so desperate to be special that he sees something as mundane as speeding as an escape from his fate. But in the end he's just another jackass who can't drive. There is no individualism for the people under capitalism.

The Cult of the Automobile has been an unmitigated disaster for the entire planet

I hate driving so much. My first instinct is always to concede to other people (even when I technically have right-of-way) because there's always the possibility that they'll just ignore all rules and common sense due to impatience (like this guy). But then that leads to the truck-driving chuds behind me blasting their horns and trying to overtake me unsafely. Like, I know there are situations where being too slow can also be dangerous, but it's hard to make decisions quickly when every option feels potentially unsafe.

"Communism is when anti-drunk driving laws and mandatory speed limits" --Karl Mark (2 A.D. - 2 A.D.)

We must cap all American vehicles at 100 mph, make them automatically print you a speeding ticket at 90, and make every lifted truck blow up fatally when the owner gets inside.

Being told to slow down slightly when driving and writing Atlas Shrugged as a response.

Car brain is the worst

WHAT'S NEXT, A LICENSE TO MAKE TOAST IN YOUR OWN DAMN TOASTER?

I kinda love really tenuous connections between some mundane activity and grand societal aspirations. Like, there is a train of thought present, but it's definitely not how the speaker reached that conclusion, they're almost certainly thinking "I agree with these two things, therefore I must retroactively justify why one means the other".

One jumping off the top of my head is Ayn Rand saying she likes smoking because it signifies Man's mastery over fire and nature.

@CarsAndComrades@hexbear.net lmao you see this shit?

ambition and excellence is when you press a button to make a machine go fast

also anyone who thinks this about overtaking people in their car shouldn't be allowed to drive they clearly have some macho posturing element going on that has no place in operating heavy machinery at great speed

if I can't vroom vroom in my big boy car and go faster than all the LOSERS in their little poor people mobiles, then why would I strive for excellence working at my dad's car dealership?

you can't spell American Excellence without Acceleration!

I mean it's a deranged post, but sometimes to make an overtake safely you need to go slightly over the speed limit for a short period of time, especially on single lane roads. It's safer to temporarily speed slightly and be in the oncoming lane of traffic for a shorter period of time, than to stick perfectly to the speed limit and be in the oncoming lane for longer.

Love to have my suspicions confirmed that some people literally see driving on the highway as a drag race and perceive me going too slow as weakness which must be vanquished

This was a thing I always questioned as a kid actually.

Surely if you don't want people breaking the speed limit, you could just make it so vehicles literally can't do that.

I feel like many people in this thread have 0 experience operating a vehicle that is not your standard issue car. I'm obviously coming at this from a cycling standpoint, with rather limited ability to instantly apply more speed once I've hit a certain one due to a factor known as "my legs", this just means you operate it differently though. Same would apply if you fundamentally changed how cars or traffic works.

Overtaking does require going pretty fast to be done quickly, so they have an overall point that speed limiters set at the speed limit would de facto prevent overtaking. The rest of it is gibberish, and personally I’m fine with banning cars entirely let alone this quibbling lib minutia about speed limits but let’s be honest and say no overtaking with limiters

Want to know what ELSE kills excellence? Giving preferential treatment to white people. It sabotages hard-working minorities just so white people can feel good about themselves And if they need to be mollycoddled by the government to stay competitive with minorities, then I guess they're not the master race after all.

IF I CAN PASS YOU I AM BETTER THAN YOU the rate of accident goes higher exponentially with speed

most advanced case of car brain in history

Death to America

You know this is one of those assholes that speeds past all the other cars when a lane ends to try to cut off the first car in the next lane over instead of zipper merging like a sensible person. I hate those bastards