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:
Speed certainly isn't the only reason for crashes but it's been decades where it has been beaten into the American conscious that "speed kills", so not surprising, no one "claimed" is was low speed.
Increase space sounds good but in foggy conditions, if you slow down more than most, that means you have more interactions with cars passing you (or creating long lines of closely spaced cars behind you). It's not a simple problem for a human driver to solve but if you are doing 25mph in a 70mph zone because of visibility, you should be getting off the road entirely (short of an emergency). Adaptive speed control that can see thru fog and react more quickly is our best bet for solving low visibility issues.
Pile ups in foggy conditions are not because ONE person was driving 25. It is because too many people are driving 70 and driving too close to one another - all it takes is one vehicle to change lanes and a single car to hit their brakes and the chain reaction begins. None of those vehicles has enough space at the speeds they are driving to avoid hitting the car in front of them.
