It's extremely relevant, you're showing your ignorance by failing to realize how immature and irresponsible it is to drive 100mph or greater on public roads
Wait. Clearly further background info is required here. I'm talking about roads that are tabletop flat, ruler straight and basically empty, wherein such few vehicles that are observable
routinely exceed the speed limit by more than ten MPH. When I set cruise control on 80 MPH, the only vehicles I passed were 18-wheelers. I got passed by a Dodge Ram dually diesel pulling a long horse trailer, while I was doing 80 MPH; I got passed by a little old lady in some wretched-looking POS economy car towing a fishing skiff on a trailer while I was doing 80 MPH on cruise control. Couldn't believe it. Mississippi and Louisiana were eye-openers when it comes to high posted speed limits, lax enforcement thereof, and a general will to cruise in the low 80s. Just rolling along with what little traffic there was, was a revelation.
Then I got to Texas and things sped up even further. Posted speed limit went up to 75 MPH, and literally everyone was cruising along in the low 80s, except for the occasional Porsche (or whatever) that blew by at God only knows what speeds. I did see a few marked police cars on the other side of the highway, but none on my side, and the radar in use was old, obsolete, and stayed on all the time, announcing its presence more than 1-1/2 miles away. Then I got to El Paso and the speed limit went to 80 MPH, with long, straight, flat and basically deserted roads. Un-flippin'-believable! That's where I bumped my speed up to 100 MPH a couple of times, with no one in sight in front or behind me for a couple of miles or more. The truck loved it! Just loafed along at a steady 100 MPH at 3,000 RPM, smooth and serene as could be. In fact, the truck was actually quieter at 100 MPH than it was at 70 MPH, which surprised me. NM and AZ were more of the same: high posted speed limits, lax enforcement, and traffic (what little there was of it) determined to cruise in the low to mid-80s. Absolutely delightful.
It's important to note that I reside in the People's Republic of Maryland, which in turn is just below the People's Republic of New Jersey. Neither state permits anything remotely like the driving described above, irrespective of the driving conditions, and both are remorseless in suppressing any desire to do so, by Draconian enforcement techniques. So when I got out west and saw that there were still a few Americans actually enjoying freedoms I could scarcely dream of back east, I took full advantage, with apologies to no one.
You see, we think we're typical, but we're not. We think we're "normal," but we're not. We are abnormal - we are in fact SUB-normal in terms of our high speed driving skills. It's a very very different lifestyle from Mississippi westward, and a WILDLY different lifestyle from Texas westward. I like it. I'm seriously considering moving out there, just to enj
oy the freedoms that we've been denied all along the east coast.
I hasten to add that at no time did I do any broken field running, nor any tailgating, nor anything else that might be considered "aggressive" driving. Mostly there was simply no one else around, and when there were other cars around, they were driving faster than I was, 99% of the time. Loved it.
. They're in horrible condition, but I don't care at all. I'll rattle can them when I get the chance
