A co-worker and I drove a dark gray Impala from Houston to Dallas. We had a portable GPS unit mounted to the center dash. The whole thing looked very police issue. Even though the speed limit is at most 70MPH, free-flow traffic normally moves faster, maybe 75-80MPH.
You could tell how often drivers look in their rear view mirror. The answer is not very. We could cruise for 10 minutes minutes at a time at free-flow speeds. Then, someone would look back. When that happened, their first reaction would always to tap their brakes. Next, they would coast slowly down to the 65MPH speed range (below the legal limit, although probably showing the 70MPH on their speedometer - we used GPS to measure speeds; it became a game for us). At this point, we would become a rolling roadblock moving at 65MPH. Several minutes later, the other driver would pull into one of the slower lanes and we would pull past them. There would be no eye contact. We would pass and pull into the slower lanes as well, cruising at free-flow speeds again.
Lather, rinse, repeat.
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