Electric bikes !!
Lets talk about your electric bikes and what you think about them ! We have had our fat tire , twenty inch , folding bikes for two weeks and have been riding them 8 to 12 miles per day . We pedal con...
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valhalla360 wrote:schlep1967 wrote:valhalla360 wrote:wa8yxm wrote:
I would like to see Electric vehicles (Golf Cars, Bikes, Scooters) with a user settable "Max speed" Governor.
The campground I frequent has a 5MPH speed limit. they don't enforce for Bicycles but it would be nice if I could dial in say 10MPH and not worry about going 20.
Bigger issue is an unrealistic speed limit. Most cars will do more than 5mph just idling on level ground. Realistically, people aren't going to drive around dragging the brakes to keep the speed at 5mph...and there really isn't much need.
As the campground owner said to me this week, "We post it at 5 knowing people will be going faster." They want people keeping it under 10. If it was posted at 10 people would be doing 15+. Just get on a highway posted at 65, that means 75-80 for many.
I'm in the business of setting speed limits...what you describe is an old myth that's been disproven decades ago.
People drive what is reasonable for conditions and they are amazingly good at determining that speed is. Higher or lower speeds on the sign do nothing to change that. Enforcement should be focused on the outliers who are actually a risk.
Industry standard is to measure traffic speeds and set based on that. You will probably find in an RV park it's somewhere around 10-15mph.
Fellow traffic engineer here. And in the interest of not derailing this thread, I just repeated what the campground owner said. I've seen speed limits of 7 1/2 in campgrounds. The odd Limit serves the purpose of getting someone's attention on the fact there is a speed limit.
