The last few days have been really interesting to me in regards to speed limits. I grew up in rural Germany moved to the US west coast ten years ago. However, I

The last few days have been really interesting to me in regards to speed limits. I grew up in rural Germany moved to the US west coast ten years ago. However, I've been spending the last week on vacation in rural Ireland. At first the speed limits here struck me as insane. Super narrow roads where I was terrified to pass any cars coming my way out of fear of hitting them or the wall to my left. Yet the speed limit is frequently 100km/h(60mph) and it only changes in proper villages. If there are just a few houses on the side of the road it still stays at 100. I was terrified on my first to days if driving here (the whole driving on the left thing didn't help really either). After a while I recalled that that's really how it worked in rural Germany as well when I learned driving. Frequently the speed limit will be really high, much higher than you could actually drive. However, there is trust that drivers know how to drive a car safely given the conditions they can observe. Very interesting and different approach.