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More on Texas' 85-mph speed limit
"Perhaps by 2030 we'll be able to lawfully drive as fast as we should have
been allowed to drive back in 1990. But don't count on it. There's too much revenue at stake." and ... "If it was "safe" and "reasonable" for a 1958 Chevy with drum brakes and bias-plys [and independent suspension, non-independent rear axle, anti-sway bars, etc.) to operate at 70, what of a 2013 Chevy with high-performance four-wheel disc brakes and 17-inch alloy wheels shod with modern radials designed for safe travel at continuous speeds in excess of 130 MPH? There isn't a new (or recent vintage) car that isn't inherently safer (more controllable, less likely to crash) at 90 MPH than any car of 1958 -- or 1968 (or 1978) -- was at 70. Yet speed limits are, for the most part, just about back to where they were circa 1970." http://spectator.org/archives/2012/1...-a-speed-limit |
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