Thread: speed limits

Overdrive gear ratios are tuned for 70 mph these days. The faster you go, the harder your engine has to work, so you'll need a transmission with two overdrives to get good mileage over 70 mph.

I believe it was the year 1999 or 2000, christmas of, where they got rid of the speed limits. I remember that between Christmas and the New Year, there was no actual speed limit (not like the "Reasonable and safe" I saw on speed limit signs).

I often drive through Montana, and there they like to put crosses or hearts where people have died. You see a ton of them on highways, but almost done on the interstate, and the highways are whats dangerous there. There was nothing dangerous about the interstate in Montana.

It seems the only motivation behind switching to a speed limit in Montana was federal money. Now the speed limit is 75 in most places on I-90. My dad tells me that before the speed limit was put back in place, you could get pulled over for doing over 80. Neglegent and reckless driving laws still applied.

One huge thing I notice about Montana is not only do a lot of drivers not care, the cops aren't assholes like they are in the rest of the states. Not only that, but I have never ever seen a single speed trap in Montana. I see cops, but they are going places. Once last summer when I was going home from Montana I was on a two lane highway and I hit 90 (yes, in my civic, was very easy to do) and passed about 8 cars in less than a minute. I watched the faces of all the drivers as I went by, and to my suprise, it seemed that no one cared at all. Washington drivers would be screaming at you, honking, and flashing their lights for something like that.

So, don't get discouraged, you can still have fun in Montana. But if you want to go nuts, save it for the track.