Exactly this. When I was younger, I did a lot of speeding on Interstates (US). I had a fancy radar detector, and I was almost never ticketed. Part of getting a

Exactly this. When I was younger, I did a lot of speeding on Interstates (US). I had a fancy radar detector, and I was almost never ticketed. Part of getting away with it, though, is doing it when you're mostly alone on the highway. Driving much, much faster than the cars around you is both reckless and terrifying; the risks are enormous. (Interestingly, my preferred highway pace back then was 75-80MPH. Now, when I drive on the Interstate, I'm nearly always going this fast or nearly this fast, but in the interim speed limits have risen on these open stretches of highway such that 75 is probably not even "ticketable" anymore; in some places, it's actually legal. Therefore it's hard for me to say that my middle-aged increased law-abiding nature is due to maturity, or the fact that the speed limits have mostly risen to the speeds I was driving at anyway.)