Color scale should be inverted
It's 85 mph in Texas so that the smarter people growing up there can then exit the state as quickly as possible.
I thought Montana didn't have a speed limit? Like a Rocky Mountain Autobahn.
I believe that was just for a few years they had roads without limits. My understanding is it didn't last too long.
As a varmoner I'm surprised our max wasn't 60 we typically get as high as 40 and only the interstate gets to 60 and it's 50 as you go through the Burlington area
Wikipedia has a world map for this:
Link: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:World_Speed_Limits.svg
This map looked a bit off, so I checked. Russia should be 110(there are only few roads where there is ongoing testing for 130 limit). Mongolia and Armenia should be at 100, Turkey seems to be 130.
Kazakhstan checks out, though. Those crazy batyrs really can drive upwards of 150 without fines. That is, if their horses can make it that fast.
I hate this color scale. So hard to read
It's ROYGBIV, so it at least makes some amount of sense. But yeah, not as intuitive as just a gradient of one or two colors.
Thankfully in metric so we non Americans can understand what the mph values mean.
Of all the conversions km to mph is the easiest at 60%
The more unpopulated land a state has, the higher the speed limit, makes sense.
Or Alaska
If you're doing 80 on ice and snow you aren't in a car 🤣
Now do traffic accidents per mile driven per state!
Found it. Well, it's fatalities instead of accidents, but I imagine it's similar enough.
On the east coast, driving 10-15 miles over the speed limit is considered normal. Some people from other parts of the country have informed me this isn't true everywhere.
I’m not sure this is accurate; I’m pretty sure I-87 through the Adirondacks in New York has a speed limit of 70. I-81 north of Syracuse might also.
I can confirm for you that I-81 is only 65 but you can drive 75 without having to worry about getting pulled over.
In Montana the 'limit' is actually the speed minimum
Driving through Texas is awesome because of the speed limit, but this chart is not accurate. There are several other states with 85 mph speed limits out in no-man's-land.
I was suspicious, so I looked it up. 40 miles of one road in tx is 85mph.
"What this translates to in reality is an average interstate speed limit of 75 mph in both rural and urban areas (though some segments within city limits are 70 mph).
There are several segments of I-10 and I-20 through the state that have max speed limits of 80 mph.
Then, there’s Texas’s claim to speed limit fame – the single stretch of freeway in the country with a speed limit of 85 mph.
It is located on Texas’s State Highway 130 (a toll road) and stretches just over 40 miles from Austin to near San Antonio." https://www.drivinggeeks.com/texas-speed-limits/
Fun fact, that's the road Tesla's giga factory is built on. Coincidentally, FSD's max speed is 5 mph higher than that road's speed limit.
I've driven the entirety of that road one time. It ran me about twenty bucks in tolls. To do it once was worth it. With an 85 limit, most were pushing a hundred. I got down to San Antonio in a fraction of the time it would've taken via 35. I certainly wouldn't want to pay that on a daily commute though. I also don't think I'd want to navigate the speeds some of the more aggressive drivers were going. I did feel a little bit unsafe.
Everyone drives like 85-90mph in California
The scalr is wrong. Yellow should be lower.
I can assure you, that while it says 70-75 on the signs in Cali, the speed is generally 80-95 lest one would obstruct traffic. Generally speaking, obstruction of traffic (driving too slow compared to the speed of surrounding motorists in this context) is much more against the law than going slightly over under most circumstances.
You're not going to get a ticket for going the speed limit
In Atlanta, I've never seen anyone go 70. It's either 90mph or 10 mph.
Who chopped the head off Maine?
I'll be real, I really like the 55mph county highways compared to the 65mph interstate. At 55mph you're closer to the sweet spot for fuel efficiency (for most vehicles around 45mph is the most fuel efficient speed) so you get noticably better gas milage. The 70mph interstates are generally a bit scary because going 75-80 to keep up with traffic just feels too fast and I can feel how much harder it is to control my vehicle compared to going less than 70, plus the engine works noticably harder against the wind to maintain speed.
I also witnessed a crash where a vehicle was going 80ish in a 55 zone on a beltline. They lost control while passing a vehicle, hit the barrier then careened accross three lanes of traffic pinning another vehicle against the opposite barrier. Nobody died and it appeared everyone was largely uninjured (thanks modern crash safety standards!) but the woman in the pinned vehicle was trapped. Point is, going slower they would not have lost control, or if they did they would not have crashed as badly doing so
The 70mph interstates are generally a bit scary because going 75-80 to keep up with traffic just feels too fast and I can feel how much harder it is to control my vehicle compared to going less than 70, plus the engine works noticably harder against the wind to maintain speed.
This very much depends on your vehicle.
I also witnessed a crash where a vehicle was going 80ish in a 55 zone on a beltline
Going 25+ over the speed limit on a road not designed for it is completely different than going 80 on a highway/interstate designed and built for that speed.
Fuel efficiencies aside it doesn't sound like you have a whole lot of confidence and/or experience behind the wheel (or you have a really really shitty car, your car should be able to handle 70-80 with ease), you should work on that.
Ok, so theres ONE reason to live in Florida.
To get out?
Im Australian and briefly confused Florida and Texas.
No surprise that the Yeehaw state lets you go 85.
KY's is wrong. There are parts of 71, 64, and 65 where the max speed limit is 75. I know this because my wife always asks me to slow down.
