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Where is the speed limit 80? "Anything reasonable"?
If you're in that much of a hurry you need help I'm not qualified to provide.
Kode, there is roads out west you can come around a corner and see a car off in the distance. You'll both be going 90 and you might pass each other in 5 minutes. These aren;t even Interstates and the speed limit is like 75 and 80.
As long as the fed also regulates the thousands of one way truck traffic leaving Mexico per-day to all points of the US filled with heroin and cocaine.
Don't you think driving 80 MPH on any public road is more stupid?
well... the autobahn has no speed limit... they just strictly enforce that slower traffic keeps to the right, and the left lane is for passing only.
so... do I think driving 80 is stupid? studies show that it is more stupid for people to drive what we call "the speed limit" in the left hand lane.
in fact multiple states from all regions of the country have started enforcing left lane for faster traffic because it is more dangerous for slower traffic in the left lane than it is people going really fast...
The idiots who dreamed this up have obviously spent very little time in the cab of a heavy-duty truck; probably have no concept of how changes in grades, to cite just one example, have to be negotiated.
Just what that maximum speed would be is up in the air. Current proposals hover between 60MPH and 68MPH.
60 mph is absurd.
Leave it the way it is, wait for self-driving vehicles to naturally take over (as a market-based solution), and we could have 100 mph roads with greater safety.
I'm sure this will go forward, though, in some form, and if it's good enough for large trucks it's good enough for all vehicles, right? Baby steps...
Kode, there is roads out west you can come around a corner and see a car off in the distance. You'll both be going 90 and you might pass each other in 5 minutes. These aren't even Interstates and the speed limit is like 75 and 80.
I've taken a couple trips out to West Texas on my motorcycle and we find these roads that probably get 1 or 2 vehicles per hour, where you can see for miles, where there are no intersecting roads or exits, where the surface is racetrack-smooth. I don't remember the speed limits -- 80 maybe. It's largely irrelevant what some sign says. I've been up to around 155 (the top speed of my bike at the time) safely in this area. 80 or 90 though is certainly fine as long as you have a somewhat modern vehicle (I wouldn't try and take an old Tercel or Excel or Metro to that kind of velocity but something like a Mazda3 is right at home at 90 mph).
Where is the speed limit 80? "Anything reasonable"?
If you're in that much of a hurry you need help I'm not qualified to provide.
Utah. AZ is 75 but is not enforced unless you're 10 over.
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