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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]this is absolutely false (re safety risk).... the uniform manual for establishing traffic codes requires that speed limits be based on the 85th percentile speed (speed at which 85% of cars travel) and nearly every road, and every interstate, is engineered for speeds well in excess of the posted speed limit. [/quote]

Just want to point out that this is total horseshit.  Not sure what that says about the rest of your point.

"The speed limit is commonly set at or below the '85th percentile speed' (which is the speed at which 85% of the traffic is travelling) and in the USA is typically set 8 to 12 mph (13 to 19 km/h) below that speed."

In any case, this is a rule-of-thumb for highway engineers--not applicable to surface roads in an urban environment. That's not to say that this isn't widely believed by folks who think they have a God-given right to drive as fast as they want through our communities.[/quote]

You are wrong.  In some states, a speed limit not supported by a traffic study and set at the 85th percentile, is null and void and the proof of lack of such a study is a defense to a ticket.  I know this because I have been a traffic court judge in another state and if the state could not prove -- if challenged --- that the limit was properly set, then the ticket was invalid.

So much for your all encompassing horseshit theory, it appears that it more aptly applies to your own sense of arrogance with certitude.[/quote]

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