jeffw@lemmy.world to Health - Resources and discussion for everything health-related@lemmy.worldEnglish · 4 months agoThe surprisingly not so doomed effort to force US drivers to stop speedingwww.theverge.comexternal-linkmessage-square25fedilinkarrow-up183cross-posted to: automotive@discuss.tchncs.de
arrow-up183external-linkThe surprisingly not so doomed effort to force US drivers to stop speedingwww.theverge.comjeffw@lemmy.world to Health - Resources and discussion for everything health-related@lemmy.worldEnglish · 4 months agomessage-square25fedilinkcross-posted to: automotive@discuss.tchncs.de
minus-squareClockworkOtter@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·4 months agoYo, I’m alive because of speed limits.
minus-squareVerdant Banana@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·edit-24 months agoand am about dead because of them not being allowed to go more than five over and everyone else is going ten or more likely over ten miles an hour coming down hills especially in Tennessee it feels like the people behind me are going to cream me if there were no speed limits could at least not have that worry places like South Carolina refuse speed limit cameras stating privacy concerns without everyone adhering to said speed limits then only the cops are benefiting from them and they become useless
minus-squareClockworkOtter@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·4 months agoYour argument for not having speed limits is that a portion of other drivers speed and this isn’t enforced? Not that it should be stricter, or the limit lowered?
minus-squareVerdant Banana@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·4 months agonot a portion it is the majority of the drivers we are on the road with do not follow road rules including speeding when speed limits are lowered very small group of drivers that adhere to the speeds set suffer due to bumper humpers and road ragers not safer
minus-squareClockworkOtter@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·4 months agoThat definitely sounds like an enforcement issue because it definitely isn’t the case everywhere!
Yo, I’m alive because of speed limits.
and am about dead because of them
not being allowed to go more than five over and everyone else is going ten or more likely over ten miles an hour
coming down hills especially in Tennessee it feels like the people behind me are going to cream me
if there were no speed limits could at least not have that worry
places like South Carolina refuse speed limit cameras stating privacy concerns
without everyone adhering to said speed limits then only the cops are benefiting from them and they become useless
Your argument for not having speed limits is that a portion of other drivers speed and this isn’t enforced? Not that it should be stricter, or the limit lowered?
not a portion it is the majority of the drivers we are on the road with do not follow road rules including speeding
when speed limits are lowered very small group of drivers that adhere to the speeds set suffer due to bumper humpers and road ragers
not safer
That definitely sounds like an enforcement issue because it definitely isn’t the case everywhere!