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Yes. In my view, the governments are simply unwilling to devise _actually_ meaningful way to remove bad actors from the roads (bad drivers, i.e. drivers that a
by jakubp 8y ago
Yes. In my view, the governments are simply unwilling to devise _actually_ meaningful way to remove bad actors from the roads (bad drivers, i.e. drivers that are reckless, drive too close to cars in front of them, use mobile phone too much, do dangerous maneuvers, etc.) , so they claim "speed kills". Which is like saying "life kills".
There are a myriad reasons why people have accidents, and "speed" is not one of those reasons. Driving faster than one's skill, and car capability, on a given type of road surface, in given air visibility conditions, with given traffic, pedestrians and other people around, buildings/architecture blocking vision, and other factors, not to mention the whole huge range of actual distrations for the drivers such as ads, using mobile phone, talking with passengers, being tired, etc. .. those things actually cause accidents (and near accidents). Speed in general is almost never the issue. High speed is also almost never the key issue. Where one driver has an accident at 60kph due to being distracted / ignoring safe distance (relative to all the conditions above), etc., another can safely and confidently drive 100kph.
- AstralStorm 8y agoAnd every driver thinks they're better than average, therefore speed limits are put in place.