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Message: <blockquote data-quote="SDMF" data-source="post: 461908" data-attributes="member: 412">1.  The Interstate highway system was designed to be safe for cars traveling 75MPH, in the 1950’s-1960’s.2.  The drop to 55MPH was done as a result of the oil embargo and had nothing to do with highway safety.  They only thing safer was politicians who didn’t get whooped over gas-lines.3.  There’s enough safety  Thing-a-Ma-Jigs built into newer vehicles that it’s getting harder every day to get into an accident4.  Inattention, un/under-preparedness and to a smaller degree inexperience are now and always have been the biggest threat on the road.  Attention diversion from the road is nothing new.  Today phones and info-tainment Have been added to the detractors that have always been there.  Poor speed control, shifting a manual trans when necessary, the radio, shitty windshield wipers, eating food & dropping food, drinks & spilled drinks, reading (book, newspaper, now phones/tablets), passengers (adults and kids), and fatigue off the top of my head.To circle back to #1, the Interstate Highway System was designed to be safe for vehicles if the late 50’s-early 60’.  Any car built and well maintained  since 2000 ASSUMING AN ATTENTIVE DRIVER and reasonably attentive traffic, could safely travel ND’s I-29/94 well over 100MPH safely.Regarding efficiency, manufacturers can greatly increase efficiency of a vehicle @ nearly any speed.  Right now, today, Highway efficiency on the window sticker is measured @ 65MPH so that’s what they tune-in for peak MPG.  They could make that point, 80, or 100MPH if that’s the standard they were going to be held to.A full-sized 1/2Tn pickup driving the speed limit gets very similar MPG today as it did n the mid-80’s driving the speed limit.  The diff of course is we’re going 25MPH faster today.I wonder where they’d be regarding efficiency if there’d never been speed limits to begin with???I believe I’ll hold off on the hand-wringing for a while.</blockquote>

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