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Them Duke boys be at it again (lemmy.digitalfall.net)
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[–] [email protected] -3 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I don’t get this: riding in the higher gears would keep your RPMs low and make it more difficult to accelerate quickly (and thus break traffic laws).

Am I missing something?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Yes you're missing that usually a higher gear means higher speed, for regular driving anyway

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The joke is many American rural area counties have a metric shit ton of speed traps to booster local funds