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Texas is home to the fastest speed limit in the United States. Last month, commissioners voted to raise the speed limit to 85 m.p.h. (roughly 137 k.p.h) on a section of State Highway 130 between the Austin and San Antonio. In a state where the law requiring motorcyclists to wear helmets was repealed, this comes as no surprise. As New York Times author Manny Fernandez puts it, “Texans do not necessarily love speed so much as they hate limits.”
Image from New York Times
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I miss this speed limit (in Montana)
http://www.flickr.com/photos/sotosoroto/7345026424/
To put this into perspective, if you drive 150km/h in Texas, you are keeping up with the flow of traffic – if that. If you drive 150km/h here, your car gets impounded for a week (before you are even found guilty in court) and if convicted, pay a $2000 speeding ticket.