Americans just don't understand if you say a 55 mph speed limit enables society. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Maximum_Speed_Law https://en.wikipedia.

Americans just don't understand if you say a 55 mph speed limit enables society. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Maximum_Speed_Law https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Maximum_Speed_Law "From April to June 1982, speed was monitored on New York's Interstate highways, and an 83% noncompliance rate was found despite extreme penalties" There was a legendary coast-to-coast race in the 70s, defying the national 55 mph limit: "Dan Gurney, winner of the 1967 24 hours of Le Mans...won the second Cannonball in a Sunoco blue Ferrari 365 GTB/4 Daytona. Gurney said, "At no time did we exceed 175 mph" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cannonball_Baker_Sea-To-Shining-Sea_Memorial_Trophy_Dash https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cannonball_Baker_Sea-To-Shinin... While the races ended due to police crackdowns, people still do the coast to coast run individually and set records: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cannonball_Run_challenge https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cannonball_Run_challenge "In May 2020, Arne Toman, Doug Tabbutt, and spotter Dunadel Daryoush set the new cannonball record of 25 hours and 39 minutes during the COVID-19 pandemic in a modified 2016 Audi S6 disguised to look like a Ford Taurus police interceptor. Police-evasion modifications included brake light kill-switches, radar detectors, laser diffusers, CB-radio, and a roof-mounted thermal camera. Performance modifications included a trunk- mounted 67-gallon auxiliary fuel cell..." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cannonball_Run https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cannonball_Run A comedy where: "JJ McClure, a famous racing driver and team owner (Reynolds), and Victor Prinzi, his chief mechanic and sometime co-driver (DeLuise), drive a Dodge Tradesman ambulance fitted with a NASCAR engine (Hal Needham and Brock Yates used the same vehicle in the actual 1979 race)." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Can%27t_Drive_55 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Can%27t_Drive_55 "...it took two and a half hours to drive there from Albany. And I was driving from Albany, New York at 2:00 in the morning, burnt from all the travel. Cop stopped me for doing 62 on a four lane road when there was no one else in sight. Then the guy gave me a ticket. I was doing 62. And he said, 'We give tickets around here for over- 60.' and I said, 'I can't drive 55.' I grabbed a paper and a pen..." Really, (and I just learned this) it says it all that there was a punk album titled as a reaction to "I can't drive 55" called "Double Nickels on the Dime". In Soviet America, the rebels drive 55! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_Nickels_on_the_Dime https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_Nickels_on_the_Dime