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As of a couple years back the maximum speed was raised, but it's up to individual states to decide where they will draw the line on their roads. There are now many Interstates in North Carolina (where I grew up) where the speed limit is 70MPH. I'm not sure what the maximum allowed by the feds is. (I don't think it was ever actually illegal to have speeds that high; it's just that the federal government made a policy to cut off highway funds for those states whose speed limits were "too high." They "non-mandated" a raising of the legal drinking age from 18 to 21 in the same way about 15 years ago. Federalism by bribery, in other words.)
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