> Paul, the difference is the highways. You don't raise a cloud of dust on US Interstate highways.
> They are between 4 and 12 lanes wide and a lane is 12 feet, nearly four meters. When I go to my daughter's house 170 miles away I cover 155 miles of Interstate in just over two hours. I set the cruise on about 72 or 73 and sometimes I never drop under that. More often, I kick it up to 80 or so just to get past a truck. I have a small 4 cylinder car but it's new and very smooth. Most of our Interstates are extremely smooth pavement.
> 65 miles per hour can seem painfully slow.
> Howard

Howard's right. I have little problem with most of the speed limits in city streets, but when I'm on the highway, the difference between 65 and 80 is quite a bit. We could definitely stand to have it at around 75. Sigh...