I drive this section of highway regularly. The speed limit is 55 at ALL times...sometimes it is not even possible to go 40, but when it opens up a bit, it is common to see Type 'A' s with 'important' things to do going 65-85...

I read about some of them regularly.

I will NOT drive 75 on this road, even IF 85% of them are doing so.
If a lot of the traffic is speeding, it is NOT required that I do so also. Carol C. has said it correctly several times in this thread...no one has the RIGHT to speed. I will push it a little, so as not to seem way slower than the average, but at some point, someone has to draw the line.

It is beyond stupid to decide that just because your car will GO 100, and you can theoretically steer it going that fast, that you should be be allowed grant yourself the privilege.

There is NOwhere you need go at 80-90+ MPH, except in a dire emergency, and most roads are not designed for it. I once drove at 85-90...across I-90 in Wyoming at 1-4AM in order to get to a repair shop in Billings, Montana early in the morning (I don't believe there was a speed limit then...about 1970)..(I think I saw about 4 cars total)

One aspect of speed is that we are SO busy anymore, that we get behind, and rush to make up time. There is, in my opinion, no excuse for going too fast just because you are running late. Some people around here have 1-3 HOUR commutes, and some of them think that this entitles them to shave 15-20 minutes by being in the fastest 1% of the traffic....no matter how crowded it is.

...ummmm....have you noticed that I'm a teeny bit peeved at some driving attitudes?