Formerly known as the Chicago Highway System.
At some point in the past few years, the speed of the Chicago highways seems to have gone from "fast" to "plain nuts." I tend to match speed with traffic. All well and good, but when the speed limit is 55 and traffic is doing somewhere over 80 (depending on what highway), something's a bit wrong. Especially when I'm doing 85, and get passed like I'm standing still. 110? 120? Somewhere in that range.
Fortunately, my car is perfectly happy at those speeds (or, more accurately, it's not happy until it's at those speeds). However, I'd love to test drive one of the hybrid cars at speed - they get great gas mileage, and work great in the city, but I question how a 1.3L piston engine is going to handle driving a car at 100mph (or merging onto the highway when traffic is doing 80). I'm not sure it's up to the task.
Ah well. At least as of now I have a few things I can work on with my car (5th & 6th port actuators are stuck, needs new oil/transmission fluid, I'm sure it could use a new fuel filter, and it needs new brakes).
-=Russ=-
Posted by rgraves at June 1, 2004 12:54 AM