Is how we get to the trailhead faster here in the mountain west! It is dictated by traffic and weather, but 87 MPH in rural CO/WY/MT is not a scary fast speed.
Yeah, umm, 87 is like normal left lane traffic around here in regular moving-along traffic. I drive fast, admittedly too fast at times, but never when drinking and never when there are other cars (I'm not a weaver) around. But if I come up to someone in the left lane doing 75, and they move over, I'll goose it a bit to give them time to move back left before they reach the car in front of them, out of courtesy. My car will go from 80-110 faster than most cars will go from 0-30, but then I'll get back down to a cruising speed of around 90. The type of car makes a big difference. Some of the cars I had in my 20's were more like Flintstone mobiles, and probably would have fallen apart at 90mph, even if they could have gotten to that speed before I got where I was going, but newer, high performance cars at 90mph feel like 50mph in a lot of cars. Control, steering, etc. are all non-issues at that speed.
When we were living in Austin, we often took highway 130 heading down to San Antonio. It's speed limit is 85mph, highest in the States:
Yeah, that tagline ain't new.
Well sure. But when I learned to drive, going 56 on the highway was illegal so I blame the government for how desensitized I am...
No worries ... you should see my framed collection of tags ripped off pillows and mattresses
Here in Utah speed limit on interstate 15 and interstate 80 is *80* for large rural stretches. It’s not unusual at all.
Route 128 northbound at 4:30-5PM from Randolph towards Route 9 is at least 80 in the left lane, sometimes 85. Just about every night. Even past the trooper parked on the side of the road at exit 33
This map from Wikipedia should help out. . Fwiw, the Montana highway patrol won‘t stop you unless you are going at least 5 mph over the posted speed limit. I usually set the cruise control to 85 when travelling on the interstate and have been passed occasionally. In California it seems like the speed limits are routinely ignored on the freeways. I will regularly cruise at 80-85 mph on the 405 or on the toll roads and have never been stopped once. I have also been passed when going at those speeds.
This is not true. In Virginia, it's 20 over or 85mph to be reckless by statue. https://law.lis.virginia.gov/vacode/title46.2/chapter8/section46.2-862/
There's a red light like every mile on that street, it's not exactly a highway
They must have changed it recently
Exactly. I think a lot of us have hit 90 on the highway. That’s fast but even at that speed I’ve been passed.
Yeah, I've found that cops around Los Angeles won't even blink at 85 even though it's way over the speed limit. Of course, I'm also white.
There’s a reason race car drivers lose a decent amount of water weight during a race. It’s not just the warmth of the nomex suit. It’s also the stress the body is under. It’s mentally and physically taxing.
I've only seen people agree with your concept. I think the recent tangent of high speed comfort levels was merely kicked off by someone saying that 87 was scary. I agree that speeds above 100 get insane very quickly.
Quadratic (m * v squared).
Some things just shouldn't be available for the general public to see. Nightcrawler wasn't supposed to be inspirational. At least Ruggs was showing human emotion. I question the existence of a pulse in whomever is filming.
For me the third most tragic outcome from this is the fact Ruggs didn't end up with a career ending injury. Playing in the NFL is a privilege not a right. He should absolutely have lost that privilege after he chose to drive not only 3X the speed limit but doing so while being 2X the legal limit for BAC. He wasn't doing 80 on the highway and blew a 1.0 because he had a couple drinks at a friends house. He was on another planet as far as culpability is concerned. I'm honestly shocked they didn't find anything else in his system besides alcohol. I drank and drove more than I should have during my college days 25 or so years ago but one thing I never did was speed because I never wanted to give a cop an easy excuse to pull me over.
I watched it, and am kind of glad I did. Frankly, that video should be shown to every high school kid, and kid entering professional sports, so they know what can happen and how quickly their life and the lives of others can be destroyed in an instant by stupid, reckless decisions.
I know you didn't mean to do it this way, but it's weird to read you want this young guy to suffer retribution beyond whatever the criminal justice system gives him for driving drunk and killing someone, in the same post that you talk about your own drunk driving.
Nope I wish he broke his leg or ankle to the point there was zero chance he would ever play in the NFL again because we all know the criminal justice system is not equal and someone with his means has a much higher chance of a lighter sentence than average joe working at ABC corp. I'm all for him carrying on a normal life after he serves his time but not as an NFL player.
In this particular case, doesn't his celebrity status hurt him? They will use him as a deterrent.
Neither most of us, nor most of our cars, have the ability to maintain control for very long at 100 or more.
I've driven 155 (on a race track - I used to do this a lot), at the end of a long straightaway, for a second or two, before braking like crazy to make the next turn at like 80-90mph. That kind of speed is VERY SCARY. You need to work hard to get up to 155 too, like you are accelerating full-throttle for 15-20 seconds in a very powerful car and feeling that g force the entire time. You are very aware of it as it's happening.
The C8 is a little bit of a different animal as some have mentioned. It can get to 150 in under 10 seconds. With the way that cars built I can easily see how an inebriated person could let it get out of hand before even realizing what the hell is going on.
Driven once on the autobahn, and was a passenger on a couple of occasions as well. It is a very different experience from a city street in Las Vegas, no matter how wide the street. It is also very different experience than any US interstate. What Ruggs did was not simply a momentary lapse in judgment.
Yes, the racetrack car I was referring to was a fully prepared 911 turbo: racing slick tires, racing suspension and partial roll cage. The acceleration in going from 100 to 150 in that thing is very serious and very real.
Oh I totally get it a 911 is a rowdy car but that thing had a lot more of a visceral response when accelerating. Especially track prepped. Probably about two seconds slower in the 1/4 which is kind of a lot. Not trying to argue though. This is a devastating tragedy that happened because somebody was able to afford a car he couldn't handle. You should legitimately need a special license to drive some of these production cars nowadays.
I have an Audi RS7. If you do jam the gas, the G force is ridiculous. The entire car rises. And it can get to 60 in under 3.5 seconds. And driving that car on the highway at 80-90 is like a cruising speed, no drag or noise or rattling. It's just smooth.
That’s fair. I assumed a 20 something year old kid with more money than he knows what do with can’t handle a high end car. Could be so but it was definitely more the alcohol in his system. All he had to do was get a ride… just sad
