{"id":247043,"date":"2010-01-29T12:58:40","date_gmt":"2010-01-29T17:58:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gas2.org\/2010\/01\/29\/data-suggests-americans-drive-slower-than-the-speed-limit\/"},"modified":"2010-01-29T12:58:40","modified_gmt":"2010-01-29T17:58:40","slug":"data-suggests-americans-drive-slower-than-the-speed-limit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/247043","title":{"rendered":"Data Suggests Americans Drive Slower Than the Speed Limit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4586 alignleft\" style=\"float: left\" src=\"http:\/\/go635254.s3.amazonaws.com\/gas2\/files\/2010\/01\/speed-limit1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" \/>Last week I talked about <a href=\"http:\/\/gas2.org\/2010\/01\/20\/opinion-should-we-limit-horsepower-in-cars\/\">how fast is fast enough<\/a>, and that one of the easiest ways to save fuel was by simply going slower. Well rejoice! Apparently all of America heeded my advice, and American drivers, on average, drive below the posted speed limit.<\/p>\n<p>Ok, obviously this has nothing to do with me. According to Tele Atlas, the mapping unit of GPS maker TomTom, anonymously collected data from millions of GPS devices shows that most Americans are driving under the speed limit. So why don&#8217;t I get that feeling when I am on the highway?<\/p>\n<p>According to an Autocar UK story, Tele Atlas says that no state tops 70 mph as an average highway speed. The fastest highway in the country is the stretch of I-15 between Utah and Nevada, with average speeds of 77.67 mph, even though the speed limit is 80 mph. This baffles me. I-15 is a road that pretty much runs through mostly desert. Why wouldn&#8217;t you go the speed limit?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/gas2.org\/2010\/01\/29\/data-suggests-americans-drive-slower-than-the-speed-limit\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more of this story &#187;<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/gas2\/org?a=InPOKp6ZL2U:aQeERYqqZr4:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/gas2\/org?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/gas2\/org?a=InPOKp6ZL2U:aQeERYqqZr4:gIN9vFwOqvQ\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/gas2\/org?i=InPOKp6ZL2U:aQeERYqqZr4:gIN9vFwOqvQ\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/gas2\/org?a=InPOKp6ZL2U:aQeERYqqZr4:F7zBnMyn0Lo\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/gas2\/org?i=InPOKp6ZL2U:aQeERYqqZr4:F7zBnMyn0Lo\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/gas2\/org?a=InPOKp6ZL2U:aQeERYqqZr4:V_sGLiPBpWU\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/gas2\/org?i=InPOKp6ZL2U:aQeERYqqZr4:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/gas2\/org?a=InPOKp6ZL2U:aQeERYqqZr4:qj6IDK7rITs\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/gas2\/org?d=qj6IDK7rITs\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/gas2\/org\/~4\/InPOKp6ZL2U\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week I talked about how fast is fast enough, and that one of the easiest ways to save fuel was by simply going slower. Well rejoice! Apparently all of America heeded my advice, and American drivers, on average, drive below the posted speed limit. Ok, obviously this has nothing to do with me. According [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4081,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-247043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247043","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4081"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=247043"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247043\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}