For you guys in a hurry, if the speed limit sign says 65, how much do you feel you can safely exceed that and not get a speeding ticket?
Flow of traffic.
We drive at what I call 90%.
If no one has passed me in an open stretch between dog-pile groups of drivers I try slow down until about 5(max)in 100 cars pass me.
This needs tuning, circumstance depending.
If in a pack of cars I'll lead the way out to the next pack and through that one to the next.
I open holes for the faster drivers, make holes for the faster, swap lanes to get them through. When I'm lucky there's me and two Truckers watching out for each other. It takes about five minutes for a small bit of the group figure it out and start cooperating...while the rest of the group remain the mobile-chicanes they are.
A minor sadness when I lose one at an exit and have to find another good driver to go through a hundred miles or so of CONSCIOUS driving.
In turn, I have fallen out of packs too fast for me. These are usually Metropolitan folk who know what they're doing on their home turf.
And
If I'm caught up in a particular pack of stupid I can't get through...we pull off for a nap or ice cream or fuel.
We drive with the flow of traffic and in turn help to cause it to flow.
If by ourselves, as we often are, we drive the speed limit, regardless of what we're driving.
Our driving style is not that We're in a hurry. It's that We are considerate of others.
Rush hour and accident based hold-ups don't bother me.
but
Someone playing gas-mileage games...that bothers me.