Safe speeds are not whatever speed is comfortable to drive a given street. Part of the posted limit is considering how much of a wrecking ball a vehicle would be if it suddenly left the road.
The limits in suburbs where I live is 50km/h. The roads are wide enough to land a plane on and you could very easily drive most of them full throttle as they are flat and straight. With that in mind I still think it should be 30km/h.
When I was a kid a car hit a snowbank and was launched straight into someone’s living room not far from my house. If they were driving 30km/h, that nightmare scenario pretty much becomes an impossibility.
We just need to stop making residential roads that look like drag strips. More curves, more trees close to the road, more speed bumps. I’ve driven in some places in Europe where it’s very clear that it’s unsafe to drive any faster than about 30 km/h due to roadside obstacles. I think that design is much safer than the NA standards.
Speed limits are not for how fast any particular vehicle and driver could negotiate the road. They are for all the other factors in road use. How many roads/driveways intersect the road, what are the sightlines, what other users (bikes, pedestrians) use the road. Does weather make a difference? How homogeneous are the vehicle types and driving ability of those users? People who speed usually vastly overestimate their abilities to react - and then blame the other guy for what would have been prevented had they been driving at the speed limit.
they have speed cameras/ traps. the new one is the speed cameras, in the west coast they placed this at odd places , like streets or area that have very low car/bicycle traffic it doesnt make sense. cant go 25-30mph in an area where one side is blocked off by a fence so no sudden pedestrians are car. it automatically captures your cars, license and attempts to give you a ticket after a certain amount of times you “pass the limit”. the city is most likely desperate for more revenue from traffic tickets if they do this.
I mean we have this as a real thing with “speed traps” where the limit just drops 10mph for zero reason for half a mile so cops can loiter and give tickets
But I feel as though speeds are already too high for the dumbfucks in giant SUVs who got their license 40 years ago and have lost every braincell related to safe driving due to a crippling alchohol addiction. I propose a “fast lane v2 electric boogaloo” on highways or long stretches thats only available once you take a special, much harder driving test that needs to be renewed every 6 months or so set at 120mph(extream flats) and can slow to 60mph(extremely weavy mountainside turns)
Speed limits are set below actual safe speeds for roads to drive local government revenue through speeding tickets.
Safe speeds are not whatever speed is comfortable to drive a given street. Part of the posted limit is considering how much of a wrecking ball a vehicle would be if it suddenly left the road.
The limits in suburbs where I live is 50km/h. The roads are wide enough to land a plane on and you could very easily drive most of them full throttle as they are flat and straight. With that in mind I still think it should be 30km/h.
When I was a kid a car hit a snowbank and was launched straight into someone’s living room not far from my house. If they were driving 30km/h, that nightmare scenario pretty much becomes an impossibility.
We just need to stop making residential roads that look like drag strips. More curves, more trees close to the road, more speed bumps. I’ve driven in some places in Europe where it’s very clear that it’s unsafe to drive any faster than about 30 km/h due to roadside obstacles. I think that design is much safer than the NA standards.
Speed limits are not for how fast any particular vehicle and driver could negotiate the road. They are for all the other factors in road use. How many roads/driveways intersect the road, what are the sightlines, what other users (bikes, pedestrians) use the road. Does weather make a difference? How homogeneous are the vehicle types and driving ability of those users? People who speed usually vastly overestimate their abilities to react - and then blame the other guy for what would have been prevented had they been driving at the speed limit.
As a bicyclist and pedestrian, many roads are above safe levels. Others it’s well below. Tbh it’s all arbitrary
they have speed cameras/ traps. the new one is the speed cameras, in the west coast they placed this at odd places , like streets or area that have very low car/bicycle traffic it doesnt make sense. cant go 25-30mph in an area where one side is blocked off by a fence so no sudden pedestrians are car. it automatically captures your cars, license and attempts to give you a ticket after a certain amount of times you “pass the limit”. the city is most likely desperate for more revenue from traffic tickets if they do this.
I mean we have this as a real thing with “speed traps” where the limit just drops 10mph for zero reason for half a mile so cops can loiter and give tickets
But I feel as though speeds are already too high for the dumbfucks in giant SUVs who got their license 40 years ago and have lost every braincell related to safe driving due to a crippling alchohol addiction. I propose a “fast lane v2 electric boogaloo” on highways or long stretches thats only available once you take a special, much harder driving test that needs to be renewed every 6 months or so set at 120mph(extream flats) and can slow to 60mph(extremely weavy mountainside turns)