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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Suggested speed signs[/quote]

My friend's dad is an accident reconstructionist, an engineer. When it's not clear how a car accident happened or who is at fault, he goes and evaluates and literally goes to the accident site and figures it out, then testifies. I was chatting with him once at a party, and asked what he's learned as a driver from doing this for so many years. He said "speed limits are there for a reason. Five miles over won't kill you, but ten will." I've adhered to that ever since. [/quote]

Speed limits are designed for the least capable vehicles and drivers on the road.[/quote]

No, they are designed for people like you who overestimate their abilities.[/quote]
No, they were designed for average drivers at a time when cars were much less safe than they are today - no seatbelts, unibody construction, crumple zones, etc.  Most (not all) speed limits are nonsensically low.[/quote]

This is 100% true.

Speed limits, especially those on interstate highways, were set at the current speeds we have now 50 years years ago, when cars had drum brakes, leaf springs, bias ply tires and no power steering or power brakes.

A realistic speed limit for interstates now in modern vehicles would probably be about 100-110.  [/quote]

There are people still driving those types of cars. We can't change the speed limit because those people wouldn't understand that they can't safely drive at those speeds. [/quote]

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