BVC-CHAT Should 128 mph be reckless driving?

[Jean Marie Linhart]

Regarding:

> > http://tinyurl.com/875v2

Chris Menzel wrote:
 
> This actually doesn't strike me as outlandish if "recklessness" requires
> doing something that endangers *others*.  I mean, think of some of those
> dead flat, straight stretches out in west Texas where you can see for
> miles in every direction and there is *nothing* around.  He was also on
> a motorcycle, which lowers the risk to others even further.
> 
> But the reporter does need to do a dictionary search on "odometer".

The one time I decided to test out the engine of a car was on one of those
long, straight stretches out in West Texas (the 100 mile "no services")
stretch between Van Horn and the Guadalupe Mountains.  I got the car
up to about 105 (maybe it was 115), and at that point, the car was still
accelerating happily, but I chickened out.  I was scared that things were
coming at me so fast I didn't have adequate control of the car.  I reduced
my speed to about 80 mph and continued and have had no desire to repeat the
experiment since.  

That influences my opinion that 128 mph is too fast, though I'm
not a legal-eagle to know which statute I'd want to prosecute under.

Jean Marie