They set the limit by watching people drive on a road without limits in place and setting it to 80% of the average. It’s by design that people go over.
I’d love to see graphs on how much people in each country drive, as you basically have to drive everywhere in the US due to unwalkable cities and no public transportation.
No one drives the speed limit in the UK either. You’ll normally see people going 80-ish to 90mph on motorways where the legal limit is 70.
It’s not necessarily related to road safety in general.
Honestly car size and driving under the influence probably has got more to do with this than observance of the speed limit.
Canada has the same vehicle size issue. Large pickup trucks/SUVs are similarly popular. Everyone here goes 15km/h over, unless there’s speed cameras which are only by schools.
I wouldn’t be surprised if impaired driving was a big factor, in Canada it’s the equivalent of a felony even if you don’t hit anyone. In the US it seems like people treat it closer to being a speed ticket.
Critical support for America’s war on Americans? Not so sure about this one
It’s like drunk Americans waging war on America’s children. It’s a distinctly different war than America’s children’s war on America’s children and America’s war on black children. But it’s a 1/10 kind of war.
you can call me mister malicious compliance
i didn’t vote on no speed limit
Funny enough lots of speed limits aren’t official and the signs are made up. I know someone who contested a speeding ticket in court by asserting that the stretch of road they were on had no actual speed limit (despite posted signs) and it actually worked because they couldn’t find any official statute or map or anything confirming the speed limit
