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from the Wir-fahr'n-fahr'n-fahr'n-auf-der-Autobahn dept.
Brought to the floor by Senator John Moorlach of Orange County, SB-319 would direct the state's Department of Transportation to build two unlimited speed lanes on each side of Interstate 5 and State Route 99, the main north-south arteries linking cities like Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Sacramento. The sections of the roadways in question run straight through the supremely flat Central Valley, making for ideal high-speed driving conditions.
Perhaps paradoxically, California's answer to the German autobahn would be paid for by the state's Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund. The text of SB-319 points out that the recent collapse of California's ambitious plan for a bullet train between Los Angeles and San Francisco, which was originally intended to trace the same route as the proposed unlimited speed lanes, has left residents without "access to high-speed, unabated transportation across the state."
http://www.thedrive.com/news/26554/california-might-add-lanes-with-no-speed-limits-to-major-highways
(Score: 2) by isostatic on Wednesday February 20 2019, @08:57AM (1 child)
I drove two hours at 80mph on Sunday, got 60mpg
Normally I average 20mph between refills and get 40mpg
Just Perhaps it’s not quite as simple as that.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 20 2019, @10:53AM
The proportionality is not about averages. If you don't maintain a constant speed, the acceleration wastes a lot of extra fuel.
That proportionality is valid for the case we are talking of the Autobahn not city driving starting and stopping.