12-01-2023, 10:40 AM
(11-25-2023, 06:48 AM)The ferret_imp Wrote: I blame power steering, padded dashes, air bags and disc brakes for all the speeders. Anyone who drove a car prior to those new you didnt want to go too fast.
To your point, I usually need to make a concscious effort to watch my speed when I am on a work trip. When I'm on four wheels at home, I'm either in my little Fiesta, which has been tweaked in performance, noise and harshness to just below the level Mrs. G will tolerate before staging an intervention, or her 13-year-old Honda, which while solid, still exhibits the creaks and groans of any older, high-mileage car.
In either of them, you are audibly aware of high speed. On work trips, I'm typically in a new-ish, large SUV, which can be deceptively quiet. When I got nabbed in North Carolina going 80, I was in a Suburban, which was pretty much like driving a large library.