[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.

[rwfromkansas]

Exactly. I would not feel comfortable taking my eyes off the road much at 80 mph, much less eat in the car like some try.

I can barely do it at 30 and usually just have to pull off to the side of the road. I would kill myself trying to eat a burger going 80.

[Petronski]

I find that anything above 80 requires my complete attention, and above 90 is frankly too intense to do for long.


Plus I'm afraid I'll smoke my transmission.

[RobbyS]

That can be a problem. You have clusters of cars riding bumper to bumper. Better if lanes on right traveling faster.