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You are scared to drive 70 mph? It sounds like you need more training and/or experience driving.
I mean, that's a velocity you can easily die at. I don't feel like that's an unreasonable emotion...
If you aren't comfortable driving at highway speeds then you should stay off the highway until you obtain the training and/or experience to feel confident. It's a rather mundane activity for most people.
Oh I'm fully capable of doing it. I've handled a 100 mile each direction super commute before and I'm currently considering supercommuting again because my grandmother needs some help with day to day tasks and lives a bit away from me. But what I can do vs what I like to do are 2 very different things, and I'm simply voicing that I do not like high speed limits on roads.
The fact is the severity of a crash increases exponentially with speed (and your margin for error as a driver decreases similarly) and humans aren't great at driving cars, so as a human who generally wants to continue living, that's the fear in the back of my head on those high speed bits of highway where some drivers are very insistant on going far beyond the posted speed limit.
Oh and lowering speed limits is good for gas milage and therefore better for emissions. So there plenty of societal good to come from lowering speed limits in general
I mean, in certain ways I agree with you, but it's rather mundane for most people, because they completely dissociate from the very real dangers that are just factually there. While your rule of thumb works in many cases, personally I never felt comfortable between all the people undercutting safe breaking distance, even when I had lots of routine.