It's a lot safer to go 65 on a rural two-lane than it is to go that or faster in heavy traffic on a freeway.
Raising Speed Limits Cost Lives
- Thread starter barometriclow
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Fast cars, poor roads, minimal seat belt usage, and lots of teenage baby boomers. What could go wrong?
Seat belts did not become standard on cars until the early 60s, and wearing them did not become law until the 80s. Lots of narrow roads back then, with not much of a shoulder if you went off the highway. Just like gun deaths today, we just took it as what happens when people drive, until we started to look into how to make it safer, lowering the speed limits, mandatory seat belt use and safer vehicles with air bags and other safety measures. We could do the same with gun deaths if we had the political will to do so
I've honked at people just staring at their phone while driving, usually scares the **** out of them.
I am of the opinion that people don't honk enough. You have a horn use it. Nearly every time I pass a car hogging the left lane I give the horn a quick tap. Most drivers are so unaware they don't even realize they are blocking the flow of traffic.
I wasn’t paying attention, misread/half read and thought this was another thread bashing raising canes. Boy, was I wrong.
My bad honestly I meant it generally. I see people enraged behind the wheel frequently where they tailgate and do incredibly dangerous stuff all the time and I find it incredibly childish.
Like we are going to run out of people...
Speed limit increases are tied to 37,000 deaths over 25 years
Rising speed limits over the past 25 years have cost nearly 37,000 lives, including more than 1,900 in 2017 alone, a new IIHS study shows.www.iihs.org
Not to mention the increase in fuel costs.
That’s a feeling I’ve never personally ran in to. lol
You are totally ignoring that people who rarely drive manually in this scenario are now asked to drive in the absolute worst conditions without the regular experience/practice. Think about how terrible even people in the upper midwest drive during the first significant snowfall of the year. They have to get their "snow legs" so to speak. Now have them not drive it for a couple of years, then suddenly try again in whiteout, slick conditions.
counter point German Autobahn.Speed limit increases are tied to 37,000 deaths over 25 years
Rising speed limits over the past 25 years have cost nearly 37,000 lives, including more than 1,900 in 2017 alone, a new IIHS study shows.
Not to mention the increase in fuel costs.
"The question of safety on the Autobahn depends very much on who you’re talking to. In 2019, the German Federal Transport Minister, Andreas Scheuer, claimed that Germany’s roads were ‘the safest in the world.’ There are reportedly 1.74 deaths per 1 million vehicle kilometers driven on the Autobahn. For reference, that number is 3.38 in the US"
Germany's Roads Without Speed Limits: How Safe Could They Possibly Be? - Kustom Signals Inc
In 1920s Germany, the government came up with the idea of a federally-controlled network of car-only roads that would stretch across the whole country. The idea might seem simple to us today, with our own highways running the length and breadth of the US, but for the time and place, this was...
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it was awesome driving in ND a few years ago where it was 70mph on the rural 2 lanes.
not to mention our honestly poor driver training requirements, and they made it even worse recently unfortunately here in Iowa.
I'll say the biggest issue is people not paying attention driving. just had that issue tonight in town responding to an EMS/fire call. had my blue dash light going, but still got stuck behind farmer john in his truck going 5 below the limit through town. put my car where I could directly see my light in his side rear mirror even, and he still just moseyed on down the road.
the 55mph limit was for fuel savings more then anything else.
Please tell me you aren’t one of the people who gets on my tail and flashes your lights when I’m already going 5 over and clearly passing someone slower in the right lane.
