Originally Posted by
genec
It was early morning on a weekend, so I doubt he was "pushed by traffic" (reality is, when I confronted him with the evidence, he admitted that the wide open road was just too much...
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He hit 80 for several minutes and held it... that was the straw that broke the camel's back... so to speak.
He has since quite changed his driving habits...
Only 80? That ain't nothin'... That diesel Ford Transit van I mentioned earlier (the one my family rented in Germany) was flying along nicely at 95 mph (and sucking down fuel like it was cool... but, boy, was it ever expensive!).
That's not a fair comparison, though. I felt safer on the unrestricted stretch of A5 in southwestern Germany than I ever have on an east coast interstate highway in the US.