While I agree it is more valuable to optimize for speed for each person speeding there is a traffic cop worried more about what the sign says than the final res

While I agree it is more valuable to optimize for speed for each person speeding there is a traffic cop worried more about what the sign says than the final result. Sure a company might want to go as fast as possible because it makes them lots of money but the accounting people now can't write budgets very easily so they push for more accurate estimates.