HI EVERYBODY
i have been living here in the S for quite few years and i had the opportunity to Travel a Lot and i am impressed with what the Speed Limits are around here...

I mean... the Vehicles that are made now a days are incredibly stable even at higher speeds and are much safer of the ones that were in the market back when most of the Speed Limits were imposed.

Sometimes i end up having to drive for 10-15 hours at 70mph and i feel like i can go to sleep any time because in the car i have this "NON Moving" sensation that get's really frustrating.

ANY Modern Vehicle is easily capable of traveling at speeds like 80-90mph and they can easily go over that, but off course we don't want to go Crazy because after all not everybody are Pilots.

But i wanted to make a quick confrontation with the Speed Limits in Europe which, with the exception of Germany that doesn't have speed limits during the day and has a symbolic limit of 150mph (250kph) at night, the Speed limits are more reasonable that what there is in the majority of the United States:


HIGHWAY SPEED LIMITS IN EUROPE

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TRANSLATION INTO MPH:

100kph = 62mph

110kph = 69mph

120kph = 74mph

130kph = 80mph

140kph = 87mph

150kph = 93mph

160kph = 99mph


OK, let's do a couple of specifications: the limit of the 100mph (160kph) is present in total on 3 Roads all over Europe and the are brief stretch of purely straight Highway where the speed limit varies upon weather conditions, meaning that at Night the limit goes down to 80mph.

The same is valid for the Limit of the 90mph (150kph) that is valid only during the day and on roads that have a minimum of 3 lanes per direction PLUS Emergency lane.


IN CASE OF RAIN
The Speed Limit goes down to 100kph (just about 65mph) in every Highway and in case of Fog the limit goes down to 40mph.


NOW LET'S GO BACK TO THE US

the United States are much bigger than Europe, and the Roads in the United States are also quite larger than the european ones, traveling for 300 miles is a pretty common thing in the US, why do we have to take such long times when out modern Vehicles allow us to save quite a bit of time?

We live in the third millennium, we are rushing more every day, we need to do things quicker, America has always been a super dynamic country, why aren't the speed limits adapting to the new needs of population and mostly to the capabilities of new Vehicles?

I am not saying that we should change tomorrow to a 90mph speed limit, for sure not, but we should start seeing more often a 80mph limit especially in some highways that drive for several miles in the middle of nowhere and where, even in case something happens, you just end up on an open field and nothing more.
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