Why 70 Miles Per Hour Is the New 55 – WSJ.com

The Wall Street Journal reports that 70 Miles Per Hour Is the New 55, and that drivers in Mississippi go really fast. This is not news to me, given where I live.

What is interesting is that the data was gathered from TomTom GPS units. Tom Tom collected the data anonymously from customers who allowed them to do so. The data is supposed to be used to improve the quality of Tom Tom’s route guidance software.

However, I am surprised that Texas is not in the top 10. Perhaps all their drivers were in the Dallas and Houston traffic jams.

Left to their own devices, American drivers confronted with an open stretch of interstate highway tend to drive at about 70 miles per hour—whatever the legal speed limit happens to be.

via Why 70 Miles Per Hour Is the New 55 – WSJ.com.

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