[Noah930]

I don't know what VC 22356 says, but what about the highways where 70 mph is the limit? Certainly it's OK to go faster than 65 in those locations.

Is there any sort of survey that needs to be done every x years in order to generate a speed limit for a stretch of road? Isn't there some sort of 85% rule where the speed limit is set at what 85% of the vehicles are traveling? My WAG is that far greater than 85% of the vehicles on the 101 through Hollywood travel at > 55 mph, traffic permitting.


For immortal legal internet posterity (and in case any judges or insurance agents are reading this):
You weren't traveling at any speed significantly greater than the flow of traffic. While you were in the #1 lane, there were several vehicles directly in front of you limiting your speed (therefore, they were traveling the same speed). All traffic was moving within about 5 mph of each other. As you merged into the #2 and #3 lanes to take the transition road to the 134, you actually had to slow down to allow traffic in those lanes pass by to give you space to merge. Therefore, you were actually traveling slower than the speed of prevailing traffic. You had to be traveling slower than the traffic in lanes 1, 2, and 3, after all. In fact, you slowed down to also allow two of the vehicles directly in front of you to do the same merging (in front of you) from lanes 1 to 2 to 3. A red minivan was one of those vehicles in front of you and actually moved into the #4 lane (while you stayed in the #3 lane) to actually pass the slower vehicles in front of you (in the #3 lane).

When the LEO turned on his lights, you were on the transition road between the 101 and 134 roughly where the 55 mph limit ends.