Speed limits
The speed limit on the straight desolate paved road that goes past our place is 80 km/hr. The people who use the road drive whatever speed they please and for the most part it works fine ….. until you...
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valhalla360 wrote:bgum wrote:
If you don't believe speed kills just look at the pileups with 40-50 cars. Those who are driving the limit are not the problem the speeder is the problem.
Typically, that is poor visibility. They are rarely doing the speed limit. It's more often someone nervous who is traveling substantially below the average of nearby traffic (high differential speed).
Of course, until we have wide spread adaptive speed limits, the limits posted for normal conditions will be too much for icy white out conditions.
Well what I see as the cause for most of those crashes is one or two drivers driving too fast for conditions causing a crash, then the rest is those following too close to allow time to react!
I have seen drivers doing 60 to 70 in pea soup fog, that they can't see much more than three car lengths in front of them.
