85% Of Car Drivers Break 20mph Speed Limits, Reveals U.K.’s Department For Transport
85% Of Car Drivers Break 20mph Speed Limits, Reveals U.K.’s Department For Transport
On roads with a 30mph maximum, 50% of car drivers break the law, says the annual DfT report on speed limit compliance.
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Yeah, 5 over is my norm.
Same. Speeding tickets are so fucking expensive where I live. Guaranteed to be at least $300 at a minimum. I can't afford that, so I barely go over to mitigate the effect of being the slowest driver on the road. In general though, idgaf.
I also drive a Prius, so it's at least somewhat expected ha
What if I don't drive at all? Why should we accept people like you being infinitely more likely then me to kill someone with a car? Where is the limit? Why can't we just make all speed limits zero?
@PowerCrazy I don't drive. So I agree with you. But I also want drivers to realize that speeding is deadly. It's not an act without consequences.
I agree driving is dangerous to society. But I do have issues with the reliance on "enforcement" instead of prevention. You can set the speed limit to whatever you want and you can set the penalties for speeding to be almost as draconian as you want, but drivers are going to drive at whatever speed they are physically allowed to unless there is something that physically prevents them. So therefore trying to moralize about how they are more likely to kill someone, isn't really helping anything. The only thing that can help is not allowing people to drive to begin with.
This, but unironically
It's 100% unironic.
Nobody cares about your condescending non-solution that ignores human nature and is therefore worthless.
Traffic engineers have to design for the reality of how people actually act, not some theoretical Platonic ideal of how they "should" act.
Edit: that first sentence is harsher in tone than @derpoltergeist@col.social deserved, in retrospect. I'm not going to rewrite it because I still mean what I wrote, but please treat it as being addressed towards people who make that sort of argument in bad faith instead of at Pablo. (Sorry, I guess I've still got some leftover cynicism from Reddit.)
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Look, you're not wrong from a moral perspective; it's just that your sentiment isn't useful either.
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When roads are designed appropriately, the vast majority of people don't speed and the ones that do are incorrigible. In this, case, trying to shame the latter group to stop speeding is ineffective.
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Conversely, when roads are designed inappropriately, the vast majority of people do speed. In this case, successfully shaming a few of them into driving the speed limit only makes the situation worse because having a wide disparity of speeds is even more dangerous than everybody uniformly exceeding the speed limit.
The bottom line is that, from a traffic engineering perspective, trying to shame people into not speeding simply doesn't ever improve the situation. Moreover, bringing it up in a discussion of how to fix speeding is actively unhelpful because it's a distraction that serves to dissuade policymakers from forking out the money for the solutions that do work!
@grue Yes, yes, yes. I agree with all of this. But I also think people should realize that speeding is bad and that lowering car speeds is good, so all these changes can be implemented. I'm tired of people getting angry because they got a fine for speeding because they were, you know, speeding and putting people in danger.
speeding is bad...
True.
...and that lowering car speeds is good...
Also true.
...so all these changes can be implemented.
No, see, that doesn't follow because not "all" changes are good. Only modifying the geometry of the street is good. Changing the number on the speed limit sign should only ever be done in conjunction with that geometry change, and even then it's just an afterthought.
It's really, really, really important not to give the people in control of the budget any excuse to think that they can cost-cut "fix the geometry" down to "install lower speed limit signs" and still have it count as accomplishing something!
@grue We agree on everything, I don't know why you keep arguing.
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Increase the fines (and scale by income) until they provide sufficient incentive to pay attention and have the tiniest bit of self control. Then the people holding a ticket can beg the engineers to fix the road to remove the need for not being lazy and impatient instead of the people whose kids were just killed.
I got the need...
What do you do with all those seconds you save each day?
Procrastinate.