[ale] [WAY THE HELL OFF TOPIC] -- but accurate

JD jdp at algoloma.com
Fri Aug 15 08:15:31 EDT 2014


The universe averages out - in San Antonio they drive 45mph on their loop.

On 08/15/2014 08:00 AM, Boris Borisov wrote:
> It's crazy. There you have speed limit sign saying 55 Mph and above it
> light board informing you that the speed in both directions are 55+ ...
> There is no limits only the speed of the light :)
> 
> 
> On Thu, Aug 14, 2014 at 9:38 PM, Pete Hardie <pete.hardie at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> I recall driving up to my folks home the first time, and getting a little
>> nervous driving 55 in bumper-to-bumper traffic on 285
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Aug 14, 2014 at 9:29 PM, Jim Kinney <jim.kinney at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Remember- those red white and blue signs are suggested speeds!
>>>
>>> The spur off I85 is terrifying!
>>> On Aug 14, 2014 8:17 PM, "Sean Kilpatrick" <kilpatms at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> This graf is from an article on trying to be a "hypermiler" in a Honda
>>>> Insight -- in Atlanta:
>>>>
>>>> "The speed thing was especially a problem for us, because we conducted
>>>> this test in Atlanta, where the speed limit is 55 miles per hour – a
>>>> number we decided to stay close to for efficiency purposes.
>>> Unfortunately,
>>>> no one in Atlanta goes 55 miles per hour. Little old ladies don't go
>> 55.
>>>> Church vans don't go 55. Even an illegal immigrant driving a stolen car
>>>> with a trunk full of cocaine and human body parts would be pushing 70.
>>>> And no one would give him a second look."
>>>>
>>>> http://jalopnik.com/here-s-what-happened-when-i-went-hypermiling-in-a-
>>>> honda-1621059406


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