I dream of a world where either speed limits are removed entirely or speed limits are enforced so well and penalized so strongly that no-one attempts to speed.

I dream of a world where either speed limits are removed entirely or speed limits are enforced so well and penalized so strongly that no-one attempts to speed. Speed limits are this weird thing where the rule is de facto strict (most driving manuals will say that drivers need to drive at or slightly below the speed limit), but de jure a recommendation (as most will drive at the speed they feel most comfortable in the situation at hand). Law enforcement agencies _could_ install more speed traps and automated speed checkers, but any politician advocating for that will be run out of their city (despite it enforcing a law that's already in place). Law enforcement agencies _could also_ spend more resources on prosecuting and catching speeders, but there are n-many more important things they could be doing with their staff, many agencies are strapped for funds, and many courts are backlogged to the ages with pending cases. Law enforcement agencies _could also also_ make speed detectors highly illegal and revoke the licenses of anyone that has one on their dash or in their person, but see above as to why that hasn't happened. Thus, we get our current system, where people break the law by default, harass folks (like me) who want to drive at the speed limit, openly advocate for cheat devices to prevent getting caught (Waze's police scanning feature; radar detectors; etc.) and then slow to a crawl whenever they see a police offer who is usually already busy ticketing someone. A solution like this that is cheap, works anywhere in most situations, and auto-tickets (or auto-revokes) people when caught would be awesome. What would also be awesome is if we just removed speed limits entirely. If people are going to break the law by default, then maybe it's a bad law. I live next to an eight-lane highway that's dead straight for tens of miles that has a 60-mph speed limit set on it . It used to be 75-mph, but Houston lowered speed limits across the city to tackle their horrible smog problem. I would love to drive this at 85-mph, since we have an electric car that's zero emissions, but if I do that, that's points on my license, a driver's responsibility fee, and mandated defensive driver training. That doesn't stop the oodles of people that go this fast anyway, but it stops me, since my time is valuable and I'd rather spend the money on other things. I know that removing the speed limit increases the chance of a chucklehead driving their car at 160-mph, but those people would drive insanely fast anyway!