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Posted: 7/7/2021 3:08:44 PM EDT

[#1]

No.

Posted: 7/7/2021 3:08:46 PM EDT

[#2]

Didn't "obey" it the first time. Had a 4 cylinder 2 door Pontiac with a speedometer that only showed 85 mph.

Now I've got two cars with 4 times the hp, more cylinders and speedometers that go to 170 mph +.

I can't drive......55!!!

Well, I could and I do, sometimes. But damn it's tough.

The BMW is only turning 2700 rpm at 100 mph. So, 55 mph it would be down around 1400 or so?? Last road trip (only 250 miles or so) I got 39.25 mpg doing 70 mph most of the way (and 100 mph for long enough to find out what kind of rpm it turned at 100.

How many people really do the speed limit. Even when I'm doing 35 in a 35 I have people just blow by me like I'm peddling the damn thing. Had a guy in a small SUV pass me on the double yellow lines yesterday as I did 45 in a 45 in a residential section of town.

Posted: 7/7/2021 3:14:17 PM EDT

[#3]

No, CAFE standards shouldn't exist period.

Posted: 7/7/2021 3:16:47 PM EDT

[#4]

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55 is fast enough

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Yes, for liberals in Hawaii.

Posted: 7/7/2021 3:16:55 PM EDT

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Posted: 7/7/2021 3:24:36 PM EDT

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School zones should be a min of 45 mph

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I drove through Kentucky this past weekend.

They have 45 mph school zones.

Posted: 7/7/2021 3:25:49 PM EDT

[#7]

Sure a 55mph minimum. I've gotten on the highway at <55mph so many times in the past few weeks.

Posted: 7/7/2021 3:25:54 PM EDT

[#8]

We also need a law that permits roadside, extra-judicial executions of left lane campers.

Posted: 7/7/2021 3:29:06 PM EDT

[#9]

Fuck no.

Posted: 7/7/2021 3:44:18 PM EDT

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Fuck that shit and fuck CAFE.

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The correct answer

Posted: 7/7/2021 3:44:47 PM EDT

[#11]

No.

Posted: 7/7/2021 3:45:31 PM EDT

[#12]

Screw 55 and CAFE.

Posted: 7/7/2021 3:53:38 PM EDT

[#13]

If we can have Trump back .....

Posted: 7/7/2021 3:55:17 PM EDT

[#14]

No. That would be the biggest leap backwards ever.

We should have autobahn rules. Left lane for passing. Other lanes for people who aren't presently accelerating faster than surrounding vehicles.

Also, the concept of a common speed limit applying to different drivers and vehicles is stupid. When I drove an early 2000's Corolla I dared not go over 85 in ideal conditions or I felt an astronaut upon reentry through the atmosphere. Now that I drive a Porsche 125 is completely safe on a highway in the left lane with good weather and visibility.

Posted: 7/7/2021 3:57:57 PM EDT

[#15]

Sure. Texas will ignore it anyway.

Win/Win.

Posted: 7/7/2021 4:00:02 PM EDT

[#16]

NO

my bike does that in first gear

Posted: 7/7/2021 4:04:14 PM EDT

[#17]

That would take me too long to get anywhere.

Posted: 7/7/2021 4:09:29 PM EDT

[#18]

Nope. No one bit. I dont comply with the speed limits now.

Posted: 7/7/2021 4:19:59 PM EDT

[#19]

Fuck no I wouldn't.

Posted: 7/7/2021 4:22:53 PM EDT

[#20]

Phuck you!

Posted: 7/7/2021 4:26:18 PM EDT

[#21]

But when would I ever use the other 5 gears on my motorcycle?

Posted: 7/7/2021 4:30:20 PM EDT

[#22]

I’m not passionate about much but you can shove that 55 shit straight up your cornhole!

Posted: 7/7/2021 4:33:12 PM EDT

[#23]

I do 85-90 in a 70’back and forth to work every day. And I’m still getting passed.

These speed limits are based around semis and not real world vehicles.

Now granted when I have my travel trailer behind be it’s a different story.

Posted: 7/7/2021 4:35:03 PM EDT

[#24]

No and it doesn't matter as smoking crack is bad

Posted: 7/7/2021 4:38:32 PM EDT

[#25]

Do the local LEAs need some revenue? That's all that a 55mph speed limit would do.

Posted: 7/7/2021 4:39:54 PM EDT

[#26]

lol no.

Posted: 7/7/2021 4:40:49 PM EDT

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55 is fast enough

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Get off the road. You can't keep up.

Posted: 7/7/2021 4:41:10 PM EDT

[#28]

All interstates should be unlimited speed zones except in built up city areas.

All crashes involving excess speed with great injuries or loss of life should carry the same penalty as first degree murder for the person who caused the crash

Interstate police should enforce left lane camping twice as hard as drug infractions, until people learn that the left lane is for passing only.

Driving on the interstate carries risks, there are other ways to get where you want to go without using the interstate if you disagree with no speed limits.

Posted: 7/7/2021 4:41:37 PM EDT

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I can't drive 55.

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Posted: 7/7/2021 4:47:04 PM EDT

[#30]

Hell no. It would take forever to get across this state.

Posted: 7/7/2021 4:50:30 PM EDT

[#31]

Obviously a thread to provoke responses which happens often here now

Posted: 7/7/2021 4:57:45 PM EDT

[#32]

FUCK NO!!!!!

Posted: 7/7/2021 6:20:18 PM EDT

[#33]

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Obviously a thread to provoke responses which happens often here now

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Like you've been here long enough to know how things were any time before

However, yes, the question was designed to elicit responses and thought. That's what a discussion forum is.

Posted: 7/7/2021 6:37:38 PM EDT

[#34]

Nobody needs a 30 round clipazine that can shoot 3000 bullets a second and nobody needs a vehicle that can drive over 55 miles per hour. Come on man!

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Posted: 7/7/2021 6:50:41 PM EDT

[#35]

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Actually, the premise stated in my original post, it would be fewer laws, but ok...

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No. Your premise is to trade one stupid law for another. Net zero change in stupidity. The only thing I would support is half a job…repeal the stupid law and then never getting around to passing the replacement. But Government already proved unwilling to do a simple repeal. Proof: failure to repeal Obamacare. Every swamp creature in office insisted there had to be a replacement. To hell with that and to hell with more stupid laws.

Posted: 7/7/2021 6:52:35 PM EDT

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Let's lower it to 45

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I feel violated by your comment.

You have been reported to the thought police.

Posted: 7/7/2021 6:53:33 PM EDT

[#37]

Fuck no! Only fags and liberals support 55.

Posted: 7/7/2021 7:22:22 PM EDT

[#38]

55 mph was a disaster. It took forever to travel. I remember driving on I-95 at 55 mph. It was torture.

Believe me. You don't want this.

Posted: 7/7/2021 7:26:04 PM EDT

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55 is fast enough

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You and OP eat corn on the cob longways.

Posted: 7/7/2021 7:28:01 PM EDT

[#40]

Has anyone said "Fuck NO!" yet?

What a stupid fucking idea.

Posted: 7/7/2021 7:30:04 PM EDT

[#41]

Fuck no!

Posted: 7/7/2021 7:37:15 PM EDT

[#42]

Anyone who thinks 55 on a nonresidential road is fast shouldn't be driving.

Posted: 7/7/2021 7:54:01 PM EDT

[#43]

Not no, he'll no

Try driving 1500 miles at 55mph 3 day trip no thanks at 70mph its still a 2 day trip but my time is money and a day is $500min when doing something I don't want to do.

That said people don't follow speed limits anyway. It would just result in more accidents due to more congestion. You need to be able to flow at a certain rate to move a certain volume through the same corridor.

Baton rouge tried 55mph it was a nightmare they bumped it to 60mph and all of a sudden traffic was significantly less, 65mph even less. When they finish the 3 lane widening I think they will bump the speed limit up to 70mph most of the way through a save for the short section between the river and the 10/12 split

Posted: 7/7/2021 7:57:21 PM EDT

[#44]

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...if the government removed CAFE standards?

For a thought exercise, say the fedgov has determined that they could eliminate CAFE if a 55 mph standard was brought back. I know, the government doesn't give up power, but it's a thought exercise.

Would you prefer to keep things as they are now, or would you support the speed limit?

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Heck no.

I can't drive 55. And even if I could, I generally oppose Faustian bargains.

Posted: 7/7/2021 7:58:34 PM EDT

[#45]

Outside of metro areas, freeway speed limits shouldn't exist.

Posted: 7/7/2021 8:04:24 PM EDT

[#46]

No and the idea of 'trading" with the government whether it concerns cars, guns, etc sucks.

The government has too much power over my life. I don't intend to hand them any more.