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Salam Dahbour wrote:
> 
> I recently did an 1800 mile drive from Denver to New York.  It really hurt
> because the speed limit in Colorado is 75, and I was in a 24' Ryder truck
> with a car attached to the back and a governor that wouldn't let us get over
> around 65mph!!!  So we were driving around 10mph under the speed limit
> through that state. The amazing part is that we were passing people!!!  In
> the MD/DC/VA area, the general rule seems to be to drive around 10-20mph
> over the speed limit (I think 75 is a very reasonable speed).  But in
> Colorado, people were routinely going 10-15mph UNDER the speed limit.  I
> made the same observation in Iowa and Indiana where the speed limit was 65
> and people were driving around 55-60.  In Ohio, people did the speed limit.
> It wasn't until New Jersey that traffic started moving at about 10-20 over
> the speed limit.
> 
> Why do people go so slow out there?  Is this typical of states in the middle
> of the country?  I have to say that EVERYONE in Colorado drove in the right
> lane and passed in the left.  Almost nobody ever stayed in the left lane
> when they weren't passing.

Sounds like people are driving speeds they feel comfortable driving at,
without paying attention to silly speed limit signs.  In states like
Colorado with high limits, that means some people going below the limit.

But then, as you say, these people in Colorado are driving slow in the
right lane.  That's where they belong, where they can drive at the slow
speeds comfortable for them without either getting in the way of faster
drivers, or being pushed to drive faster than they want to go.

Fast drivers in Colorado have it their way, so do the slower ones. 
Sounds good to me.

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