I'm still trying to figure out exactly how sociopathic you have to be to modify your vehicle on purpose to make it pollute as much as possible.

That's an interesting argument that you're making, considering that you're arguing that the speeds are set too low (ie, claiming that you know better)

Sorry, but the 85th percentile is still well within the collection of irrational drivers.

I never said speed traps don't exist. Here's one. The speed limit here is 25. It's a nice wide open road through an industrial brownfield. The speed increases to 30 then 35 when you hit the residential area to the south. The limit here is irrational and the police give tickets all day long.

The problem is that people watching that video ignore the sensible side of it and have reached the false conclusion that traffic left to its own devices will naturally flow at safe speeds. If you actually pay attention to the way people drive, you would know that this is not a rational conclusion. The average driver…

Yes, and if we use average driver behavior as our standard of what is safe, we should all be driving 65-80 mph on highways with limited forward lines of sight (~300 feet at spots), regardless of conditions, about 5-10 feet off the vehicle in front of us, and focusing on our cellphones instead of the road.

I've watched the source video. And the fawning over it is obnoxious. There are certainly cases where speed limits are set unreasonably. But that doesn't mean that the average driver is capable of determining a safe speed. There is a HUGE leap between saying some speed limits are set to generate revenue and that…

I see people weaving in and out of traffic, riding 5 feet off other people's bumpers, at 65 mph+ on roads that are improperly banked in turns with extremely limited visibility (~300 feet at spots) and don't drain well in bad weather, on their cellphones and even USING LAPTOPS while driving, and you want me to believe…

Setting speed limits based on what most people actually drive is a terrible idea... most drivers I see are idiots.

*checks calendar*

I didn't read the attached ABC story, just the story above. Still, even the ABC story doesn't mean any impact was 100 mph+. A little braking pre-impact, the other vehicles traveling at any speed, etc... it isn't hard to get things from 100 mph+ impact speeds to a relative speed of 35-50 pretty quickly... and those…

It doesn't say they crashed at 100 mph... rather it says they were going at 100 mph prior to the crash.

Sigh...

Best midsize Buick Toyota ever made.

Fortunately, they also give a pretty distinctive warning - or at least OEM did. Chirp chirp chirp chirp chirp chirp chirp......

He doesn't, and likely never has. I've heard of forktruck drivers pulling very large amounts of overtime reach that level, but those are rare. Like the one at Ford who worked 16 hour days day in and day out...

True.

Don't think those rules even apply to Ohio, which has given Honda massive breaks for years.

Yes. But Jeeps fall a hair short of the 75% cutoff that Cars.com arbitrarily uses, so they don't care. They also don't care about the many thousands of engineers and scientists working to support the Jeep brand in the US.