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I was suspicious, so I looked it up. 40 miles of one road in tx is 85mph.
"What this translates to in reality is an average interstate speed limit of 75 mph in both rural and urban areas (though some segments within city limits are 70 mph).
There are several segments of I-10 and I-20 through the state that have max speed limits of 80 mph.
Then, there’s Texas’s claim to speed limit fame – the single stretch of freeway in the country with a speed limit of 85 mph.
It is located on Texas’s State Highway 130 (a toll road) and stretches just over 40 miles from Austin to near San Antonio." https://www.drivinggeeks.com/texas-speed-limits/
Fun fact, that's the road Tesla's giga factory is built on. Coincidentally, FSD's max speed is 5 mph higher than that road's speed limit.