DrivingthroughNew Jerseyon Interstate 80 en route fromPennsylvania to New York, Icame upona group ofcars that wereabnormally traveling exactlyatthe55m.p.h.speed limit.
Nixon, who was Eisenhower's vice president, had his own impact on the highways and their energy use in implementing the staggeringly unpopular directive to limit Interstate speeds to 55 mph, perhaps the most widely disobeyed law in U.S. history.