How fast do you drive?

[SlowwHand]

On the freeway, I drive 75-80 mph (120-130 kph) pretty consistently. What about you?

Me, too. I go slower in school zones, for instance.

[MrFun]

Yes - keep the children safe, okay?

[BlackCat]

It would raise my blood pressure more than two times over probably, and cause me to go psycho.

Well, that's the difference on us euros and you yanks - we gladly pay $2 per liter and don't really care if price gets up 10-15% still our economy will be stable, but what with you yanks ? I guess that your economy will fall apart while we just carry on as usual.

[Theben]

8-9 mph over the posted speed limit. Anything more attracts the attention of unwanted police officers.

9 over was always the rule in Chicago, but in Indy I could drive 20+ over and not worry about it. Recently they've finally begun to crack down, and I got a $225 slap as a result. So back to 9 over at most.

The only exception is if I have a "rabbit" in front of me (a car that is going a lot faster than me- draws out the "hounds") but I usually can't keep them at the sweet spot distance for long so even those exceptions are pretty short.

[MrFun]

Well, that's the difference on us euros and you yanks - we gladly pay $2 per liter and don't really care if price gets up 10-15% still our economy will be stable, but what with you yanks ? I guess that your economy will fall apart while we just carry on as usual.

Our economy is already falling apart.

[EPW]

My standard speed is about 4-5 mph over the posted limit. Cuz I'm a rebel, yeah.

The fastest I've ever driven was on a stretch of highway between Tracy, CA and San Francisco. I was on a business trip and in a rather sporty rental car. The *posted* speed limit got up to 85 mph, and while going with traffic I topped 100 mph a few times.

Bull. 70 is the maximum in CA and even that's rare. It's 65 on most freeways.

Tracy->SF? You must have taken 580 which has a 65mph limit. You should be in jail you selfish sob.

[Asher]

120km/h in 100km/h zones

15 over otherwise

[Boris Godunov]

Bull. 70 is the maximum in CA and even that's rare. It's 65 on most freeways.

Tracy->SF? You must have taken 580 which has a 65mph limit. You should be in jail you selfish sob.

I may have misremembered the posted limit, but you're wrong in that it was 205 and there is a stretch that is 70 MPH:

http://www.dot.ca.gov/hq/roadinfo/70mph.htm#I-205

But as I said, I was going with traffic. I don't know about CA, but Oregon has a rule that you can't be cited for speeding if you're going with the bulk of traffic. They would have to have pulled over everyone.

[EPW]

you were on 205 for about 5 minutes. The rest of the way was 580. Still, you've admitted to going +30mph over the speed limit, you should cut up your licencse right now.

[Boris Godunov]

You'll have to catch me to get my license. Zoom zoom zoom.

[SlowwHand]

[Dinner]

Usually about 10mph over the speed limit.

[Joseph]

Didn't know that there was a stretch of freeway in California that has an 85 mph speed limit.

I'm also surprised that the Euros among us drive so fast, what with the extreme gasoline prices on that side of the pond.

It is posted 65.

[EPW]

yes, we've been over this.

[SlowwHand]

http://www.motorists.org/speedlimits/home/state-speed-limit-chart/

I don't know that this is accurate. I don't recall seeing a road with 80 MPH in Texas.