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I have driven in many states, and Texas drivers are no different than Florida or California drivers. 90 MPH is about average speed and only the occasional triple digit speeder.

In Florida on one of the turnpikes, my radar detector started warning me, and I was a little angel as always in the right lane going the 70 MPH speed limit as a line of 6 various makes of HUGE Suvs rolled past in the left lane at 90. They all passed right past a state trooper and he never moved. I figured that was the real speed limit.

In California going from Monterey to San Jose and the traffic was certainly not traveling even close to the speed limit, more like 85 to 90.

On the Pennsylvania turnpike, same thing. Most traffic was moving at 80+ even three lanes wide through construction zones.

In Oklahoma, outside of the cities the interstates have a 75 MPH limit, and most traffic is at 85. There are some sections of the turnpike where the limit is 80. I lived through the horrible days of the national 55 MPH speed limit. It is almost surreal now to roll past a State Trooper at 80 with his radar blasting and know I am going the speed limit. In the bad old days of the 55MPH limit a ticket at 80 was damn near a felony and likely to get handcuffs and the car impounded.
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