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If you drove that fast on a German highway, you wouldn't get a "stunt driving" charge.
You'd get a Diesel station wagon riding your bumper, flashing his brights.
In North America, there’s almost no vehicle safety standards, road standards are questionable, and the licensing process is a joke.
So instead of addressing the problems, and logically allowing a high rate of travel given the distances and populations involved, many jurisdictions have created this concept that any speed over a certain number is automatically stunting.
Obviously doing 150kph through a residential area is a problem, but there’s so much empty road!
That said, North Americans need to build trains. Better ones. And better neighborhoods.
LOL, 100 years of car and oil lobbying money has entered the chat.
Trucking actually, it produces a lot more jobs than rail.