I generally stay with the flow of traffic. I don’t want to be a moving speed bump.
At he same time...
People are just FLYING around Sacramento and Northern California these days. 80 mph seems to be typical with 65 as a rock bottom basement. And it is as bad on surface streets. It there is any distance between stop lights, like over the Watt Ave Bridge, people are doing 60 mph and even sometimes 70 mph, in a 45 mph.
So while I am running around everywhere between 60 mph and 65 mph, everybody is blowing past me at 80 mph. FWIW, my Dodge Challenger gets around 30 mpg at 55 mph, 24 mpg at 65, and 16-18 mpg at 80 mph.
I don’t think a lot of people realize they just raised the price of their gas from $3/gallon at 60 mph to $5/gallon at 80 (effectively vs 60 mph).
I guess everybody has money to burn.
I know why everybody is a NASCAR driver today. Cars are so quiet and comfortable, people don’t feel danger at 80 mph in modern cars. Add in that everybody is stressed out today, it is a mess.
I think last year set a record for people cited going over 100MPH. Possibly double the posted limited as well.
Things aren’t at the crazy level they were last year when everyone was doing 20+ over the limit morning noon and night and no officers on the highways.
I am seeing officers out again.