SCTEx

Drove to Subic last Friday for a client presentation. Was the first time I've taken the Subic-Clark-Tarlac Expressway, which is indeed a modern motorway very much like those I've seen in China, HK, and Malaysia.





Of course it was a Friday during work hours, but entire expanses of the expressway were completely deserted (unlike, say, NLEX).



I also got to play with the GPS on my mobile phone, and discovered that at (moderate) speeds, the car's speedometer is within 2 km/h of the GPS reading.



I actually hit 150 km/h on SCTex (for a while, there are supposed to be radar speed traps). The underpowered MZR-Z6 was turning at around 4,500 rpm at that speed. A far cry from the 364 km/h posted maximum speed on SCTex (by a BMW X6, incidentally I saw one at Pacific Star last Thursday).