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FYI… speed limits don’t help. Speed limits are about $ and the war on drugs not safety.
The objectives of this research was to determine the effects of raising and lowering posted speed limits on driver behavior and accidents for non-limited access rural and urban highways. Speed and accident data were collected in 22 States at 100 sites before and after speed limits were altered. Before and after data were also collected simultaneously at comparison sites where speed limits were not changed to control for the time trends. Repeated measurements were made at 14 sites to examine short – and long-term effects of speed limit changes.
The results of the study indicated that lowering posted speed limits by as much as 20 mi/h (32 km/h), or raising speed limits by as much as 15 mi/h (24 km/h) had little effect on motorist’ speed. The majority of motorist did not drive 5 mi/h (8 km/h) above the posted speed limits when speed limits were raised, nor did they reduce their speed by 5 or 10 mi/h (8 or 16 km/h) when speed limits are lowered. Data collected at the study sites indicated that the majority of speed limits are posed below the average speed of traffic. Lowering speed limits below the 50th percentile does not reduce accidents, but does significantly increase driver violations of the speed limit. Conversely, raising the posted speed limits did not increase speeds or accidents.
I’ll add that I believe speed limits are set below reasonably safe speeds for typical vehicles so as to maximize money and basically permit police to stop and check you and your passengers at any time.
Speed limits are part of the governments assault on your wallet and freedoms.
So what are you saying Ken – should there be no speed limits? On unrestricted highways, probably not. On major city streets, probably not. On residential streets, probably yes.
But I would have legal punishment, not fines. I do not want police officers to be fund raisers.