Dependant on the conditions. Sitting 10km+ under the limit in fog is just asking for someone to rear end you. If you can't handle fog get off the road. So many people come up to the mountains for a fun weekend and when the fog rolls in every they panic and sit at 30-40km in a 60km zone. It's just asking for someone to come around a blind corner and hit you in the ***.
Sitting under the limit increases the risk to other drivers around you. You get drivers sitting behind you and then people start to get impatient and will make risky decisions overtaking in places that aren't the safest to do so. Someone overtakes on a blind corner gets collected by a car coming the other way and ends up taking out the 5 people behind him as well. If people couldn't just sit on the speed limit it's not that hard. If you can't handle a car at the speed limit you shouldn't be on the road.
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