Typical speed limit enforcement on I15 to Vegas?

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Speed limits should be based on sound traffic-engineering principles that consider responsible motorists’ actual travel speeds.

Typically, this should result in speed limits set at the 85th percentile speed of free-flowing traffic (the speed under which 85 percent of traffic is traveling).

These limits should be periodically adjusted to reflect changes in actual traffic speeds.

Originally Posted by Coffeequeen

I wasn't close at all. I learned to drive outside of Utah LOL. His (cop) premise was speed. I read that those speed guns are often wrong.

Probably a radar? Radar can and often does pick up the fastest, it sweeps broadly unlike a laser which is almost (relatively) pinpoint out to several hundred yards.

Cop's gun picked up the fastest or largest vehicle. Unless it was his first day on the job, he would or should know that. Maybe he wanted a date.

My wife was pulled over by some local cops shortly after she moved to the area, many moons ago.
She had California plates, a military sticker in the windshield, and a Lumina with red bumper pinstripes (IIRC).

My suspicion is the cop was looking for a single girl to charm with his homespun humor and authority. That or the local cops liked to pick on the military, that's not an unheard-of habit.
It was North Little Rock AR, a department with a not-so-incredible reputation.

There is no rational duty-related reason to pull over the slowest-moving vehicle unless it's erratic or going 35 on the interstate. Which you said you weren't.

One more reason for a dashcam.