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Originally Posted by jmecklenborg
The speed limit should be pulled back to 55mph, like it was in the 70s and 80s, if we were a country that actually cared about safety.
https://youtu.be/RvV3nn_de2k
Periodically I drive 55mph in a 65 or 70mph zone and it's like you're in slow-motion. But you are easily able to respond to debris in the roadway, deer, and other stuff.
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Going 55 in a 70 is very dangerous, well, very dangerous if you also think going 85 in a 70 is dangerous LOL
I've been on 130 a couple of times. Nothing like going 89 with a cop passing you. Truth is, I felt safer, and I'll tell you why. When you are on a normal highway with the speed limit at like 70, you will speed(well, not you Jmeck, but the vast majority do). So naturally I am going 5-15 miles over anyways. Now, the great state of Texas has allowed me to go so fast, so I almost feel like a douche pushing it. So going 4 over is as fast as I go, and it seems most other people do about the same. So I think the speed deferentials are actually lessened in that case.
55 is a joke. The only people pushing this are upper-class people who fly everywhere and don't do 10 or 15 hour trips semi-annually.