Texas highway would be the first to allow 85 mph speed limit

[A HERETIC I AM]

48. I see. You're part of the problem, then.

If you used to race cars, then let me ask you a question;

If you are on a straightaway that is wide enough for 3 abreast and you are the slowest car on the track, the leaders are coming up behind you and the course workers are waving the blue flag at you vigorously, is the safest place to be in the middle? Or the left? Or the right? Unless you were a roundy round racing driver then it was at the bottom of the track, NOT in the middle.

SLOWER TRAFFIC KEEP RIGHT, FOR FUCKS SAKE!

Applied when you were racing and it applies to the highway.

As far as "the statistics" backing you up, bollocks.

It isn't speed that is the danger, it is the disparity in speeds in highway driving that causes the overwhelming number of accidents. If you are not following the 75% rule, then YOU are the dangerous one, not the guy going as fast as the vast majority of traffic.

Nothing fucks up traffic flow on multi lane interstates more than the assholes that run down the middle lane of a 3 lane roadway and REFUSE to ever change lanes to the right.

If you don't think it is safe to run faster the 55 MPH on public roads, stay on the secondary routes then. Hell, find a tractor on a farm road and stay behind him.