"driving" in the left lane. YES it's illegal.

d3500ram wrote:
This thread has seemed to segue into a conversation on the ethics of “speed.” There are two laws in play for a person when it comes to speed within a vehicle on roads within a jurisdiction: laws of the people and laws of physics. Break excessively either one might get you judged by more than just the twelve on earth.

Well put indeed .... and full of wisdom.

Our previous heavy and supurb riding daily driver sedan had a top speed of 147 MPH and it's later year version that we replaced it with had more horsepower but is governed at 135 MPH. So - in conformance with the concepts in that wise quote above - we cruise in our 135 MPH sedan at around 60 MPH ... which also happens to result in 25--27 MPG fuel economy from it's overhead cam V8.

The fastest I have ever driven was behind the wheel of a Cobra roadster at 110 MPH in it's 2nd gear ... and it would have been pure lunacy to take it up to 175+ MPH in 4th on any public road. Public road speed has no place in America anymore (or anywhere else in the world either, IMHO, no matter what the Germans think they're getting away with).

I'll never forget this quote from, I think, Ayn Rand: "We can ignore reality, but we cannot ignore the consequences of ignoring reality."