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I've also noticed that even if you do go the speed limit, it still seems too slow for the road. Highways with a 55mph speed limit are jokes.

Soxfan, don't even come close to speeding. I don't say this because I don't think you'll be safe (and I actually agree with JHB that the posted speed limits are misleading and that it's safer to drive faster), but because it's in your best interest. I'm interning in the probation office in the Concord District Courthouse right now, and I can't even begin to count how many kids I've seen lose their licenses for speeding due to the new law that Massachusetts has passed. Are you aware of it? If you get a ticket while you have your JOL (junior operator license - any operator under the age of eighteen), you lose your license for 90 days, have to take an attitude class, a road rage class, pay the ticket fine obviously, your insurance will go through the roof, suffer a huge surfine, re-take the permit test, re-take the road test, and pay $300 to have your license reinstated. I love Massachusetts, but it's so easy to hate it sometimes as well.