I love all of the "I'm a great driver and I can drive as fast as I want and be completely safe" type comments on this thread. None of you have a clue. ANYTHING can cause an accident, and since you people like stats so much, lower speeds result in less severe accidents in 100% of cases.

Here is an example from my own, personal, experiences that completely nullifies these "I'm a great driver" remarks.

Back in 2000 or 2001 I was driving North on I-15 in Cali when the guy 3 or 4 car lengths in front of me slammed on his breaks and swerved into my lane to avoid a deer. Speed limit was 65 I believe and since I just got a huge ticket I was actually doing pretty close to the speed limit, maybe 70mph max. Because I wasnt driving overly fast, I had the time to react. I was able to get on my breaks, and swerve into the other lane. Had I been doing even 80mph, there was no way I was going to avoid this guy. As it was, I missed him by no more than 10ft.