Speed limits are actually another great example of an ineffective control. I live somewhere with lots or wide straight roads that have ridiculously low speed li

Speed limits are actually another great example of an ineffective control. I live somewhere with lots or wide straight roads that have ridiculously low speed limits, and they are ignored utterly. Sometimes you find a really big speed limit sign, as if that is the problem. I feel to some extent that it makes people drive even faster when they are absurdly low, because they're pushed so far over the line they just say screw it and ignore the limit entirely instead of feeling restrained a bit, which is probably another good covid analogy. Telling people "it's not that hard to drive safely" and then defining "safety" as something absurdly cautious and frustrating is just as unhelpful as many jurisdictions' civic guidance, and the article is providing evidence that the latter is just as useless as the former