Bah, that's nothin'. When I drove from MA to CA in 1996, I discovered that you can go 85 in parts of the Southwest. Legally!

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One of the many, many reasons us car nuts feel a migratory draw towards Arizona and Nevada.
The localized near-extinction of rust being another.
The fact that KHP cars are rather sparse and easy to spot in Death Valley being yet another.

TRB

"I wish I was reaper, culling lost souls. I wish I could cast them into deep and lonely holes."

Ah, but over the Pennines you have a posted speed limit of 50mph, roads not wide enough for a lane either way visibility of 100m at best and preactically no police presence.

My dad hit 90 on those in a hatchback once 'to show me how do drive in a hurry'. I haven't driven in over a year and I fully intend to extend that record. Care to guess why?

drakensisthered

So I simply said one of the great trite truths: "There is generally more than one side to a story." - Corwin, Roger Zelazny's 'Courts of Chaos'

Well, from what I've heard Minnesota used to have what was essentially "during the day, as fast as you want, just don't hit anything."

Polychrome

I think you're thinking of Montana - which stills does have such a rule. Well, almost - the rule is for a 'reasonably prudent speed'.

Reading an article on that a year or two ago, there was a quote from a Montana State Trooper something along the lines of "If we see Bob go by in a beat up pickup going 90, we'll probably stop him. If we see Mario Andretti go by in a Ferrari going 125, we wouldn't."

Basically it is up to the cop to evaluate the variables - the road, the weather conditions, the vehicle, and the apparent skill of the driver (ie, how well the driver is controlling things).

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That reminds me of this guy from Australia that I met on a train some years back. Especially this one thing he said: "It's the most amazing thing about Germany you can say: YOU CAN DRIVE AS FAST AS YOU WANT!!!"

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Yeah, someday when I'm rich I want to order a new Saab and use their "pick it up in Tröllhatten, drive it all the hell over Europe, then put it on a ship in England and take it home" plan. Sounds like a good way to kill a year or so...

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When I first read your post my thought was "70 Km/h? 85 Km/h? Over here we have legal speeds of 160", then I remembered that you use mph.

Pangaro, silly me
Member of the Narn Bat Squad

One of the best ways to mess with the minds of drunk and/or stoned people (which, granted, is like shooting fish in a barrel) is to be driving a car with a digital speedometer, and get to about 70 or 75 and hit the switch to go over to km/h.

"OH MY GOD! WE'RE ALL GONNA DIE!"

-- Sean --
...speaking from experience, as the designated one...
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A good friend of mine is a staff writer for Fast Bikes magazine, and so gets to play with all the new toys. Last year, when the new Ducati line came out, he let me go round the track a few times on the test model...coming out of turn 3, into the straight, I look down at the tach, and then notice the speed right next to it. 197 it says...took me a good 15 seconds to remember that this is an italian bike. It's gonna use klicks....but I thought I was gonna die for a sec there...

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-Pasha
Umm, right....I'll be with you in just a sec now...

Given that Durandal doesn't speak, only communicates via text displays, that would be somewhat problematic.

--G.
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How about Ed, then?

Ed's savant enough....

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(They won't give me LARTs, they say that's restricted to Michael.)

Is Edward dreaming? No... Where is Edward? In bed? Well, what is Edward doing? ... Talking to herself.

--G.
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Urk! Bastard!

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See? Perfect!!

My brilliance astounds me at times. Most of the time, though, it just gets people staring at me and whispering behind their hands.

I suppose I should wear pants when philosophizing.

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Haberdasher to Androids, Malakite of Lightning and Angel of Tech Support Professionals
(They won't give me LARTs, they say that's restricted to Michael.)

It is also, for those too young to remember it, the very first music video played on MTV, ever. Back when they played music videos.

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aka Draco Draconis Ebenium
known to Adam Curry as Aaron F. Johnson,
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(Proud member of the I Hate Kennedy Club, and who thinks that Martha Quinn looks like the lead singer of the Black Crows)

... Er, unless there's been a chronal fault someplace, that was the original Buggles video, not the one being described here. :)

--G.
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That's Gryph... I saw the original video too and it didn't sound anything like that. I thought maybe I'D been sucked into some sort of chronal fault...

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Vaughn doesn't know I exist. I guess this explains why the rest of reality keeps ignoring me as well. >_<

Oop. My mistake. Haven't seen the original video in a long damn time, and my TV doesn't get anything right now, except DVD and VHS. Damn airports, screwing with my local reception.

Ebony the Black Dragon
aka Draco Draconis Ebenium
known to Blockbuster as Aaron F. Johnson,
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(who's too far in debt for cable right now)