Fred,
That is great but we will never see that kind of speed limits out here. For one thing this republic wants to lower them as much as possible and another thing, the highways and roads at least in Northern Calif. are so bad that you would tear your vehicle up driving that fast on many of them. I haven't been farther South than Haward for some time so don't know if the highways and roads down in that area are kept up any better or not. But we have overpasses here on I-5 which is our main North/South freeway that they are having to close regularly to patch in order to make are they don't collapse when one of the big rigs goes over them. They have made some headway for about 50 miles South but the whole highway system in this state needs to be replaced. They did build a new bridge in Redding to replace an old one that was starting to sag as it was on one of the most heavily traveled streets around. And I doubt if my Taurus would do 80 MPH anyway.
Ron