Suppose I am driving down a street. The sign says the limit is 60kmph. However the condition of the road is good. It's well maintained, it's nice and wide. I ca

Suppose I am driving down a street. The sign says the limit is 60kmph. However the condition of the road is good. It's well maintained, it's nice and wide. I can clearly go faster. Say 70kmph. Most people realise this so they go faster too. Say between 65-70kmph. But the sign clearly said 60. Further more, you know you can get ticketed. Even if the limit is artificially low and the police are doing it for revenue raising reasons, why not just slow down regardless of the conditions? It seems irrational to me that you would go faster on a street where they enforce the limit just because the conditions are good. Why even bother risking the ticket and losing points on your license. I drive in Sydney. There are signs well in advance of red light cameras and speed cameras. And people still speed through them. There are certain roads where I see the camera go off quite regularly. Hell, a couple of times I've seen signs, slowed to match the limit and people behind me will change lanes and speed to over take me, triggering the cameras. Sometimes I am already over the limit, and the person behind me will decide I am not over enough, change lanes and speed to overtake.