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Originally Posted by speeder
To be fair, the really high speed stuff had to be done on empty roads. I've done some fast driving cross-country and 100-120 is no problem through Utah on the 70 where the speed limit is 80 and people are doing that or better but you have to slow down whenever you approach another car from the rear, even if they are in the neighboring lane, for safety's sake. It's all about speed deltas and closing speed, etc...
They left at midnight from NYC so most of the drive was at night, (two nights), a lot of the USA is pretty empty during those hours.
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^^^ This.
Leaving NY at midnight means they were in the "fly over" states by morning. Get outside of the congested east and west coast and well, where is the congestion? I don't know the route they took so I would guess Indy? St Louis? Denver?
is it obscene? maybe.
dangerous? at times.
But isn't that why people still do things others think are "crazy" ? Just cause you can?
I haven't read the whole story, but I assume this one was much more modest than those "clown" shows where 15-20 guys in their Ferraris, McLarens, Lambos all tarted up with stickers try to go coast to coast bringing way too much attention on themselves.