[Mulder]

I've never been to Texas, but 80 seems like a high speed limit. But I guess in rural areas it makes sense

Texas has weird speed limits. IIRC, the speed limits are either the same or higher on undivided two-lane highways than they are on the interstate. The interstate speed limit there at night was 55 MPH the last time I drove through, which is ridiculous.

Under good driving conditions, 80 is not too fast at all.

[JayNorth]

Under good driving conditions, 80 is not too fast at all.

As long as you're actually driving and not just occupying the left front seat. At 80 mph, driving should have your full attention, because if anything goes wrong you have very little time to recover. I like to get where I'm going, too, and drive with the flow of traffic for the most part, which seems the safest option.

In North Dakota they raised the limit from 70 to 75 a year or so ago, but said they would enforce it and they do. In my opinion it's safer because instead of one person driving 60 and another driving 80 pretty much everyone sets their cruise control at 74 and traffic moves along without much drama.

[stands2reason]

Under good driving conditions, 80 is not too fast at all.

Not if you drive friendly. :-)

[Diddle E. Squat]

The interstate speed limit there at night was 55 MPH the last time I drove through, which is ridiculous.

65 at night.

[rollin]

The night speed limit is now 65 mph for autos. Has been for some time.