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This is called an average speed check in the UK and I hate them, you literally can't speed at all

• gruez 3y ago
  >I hate them, you literally can't speed at all What do you think speed limits are for then?
  • adammarples 3y ago
    Speed limits in the UK are a little weird, for example on the North Circular, you can be limited to 40 mph for many miles, on a 4 line wide highway with concrete walls on each side and no pedestrians possible, everyone crawls along. Also on the Westway, my pet peeve, a completely enclosed, raised and straight highway with nothing to hit, you can be stuck at 30 mph. Having spent an hour and a half getting out of London, you immediately hit tiny twisting country roads barely one lane wind, full of blind spots, and they're 70 mph limit. This is why its my pet peeve.
  • robben1234 3y ago
    >What do you think speed limits are for then? In the presence of vulnerable bystanders or users of the road (e.g cyclists on city streets), limit serves as protection against fatal outcomes in case of an error. That's the only case where no one could argue against limit. Does UK track average speeds in cities? I'm not familiar with their system. But aware that Dutch use it on highways to make everyone miserable. While their east neighbor doesn't have a default limit on highways at all while still having one of the best in the world highway safety record.
    • Doxin 3y ago
      > Dutch use it on highways to make everyone miserable. There's a couple places it's used and the only people it makes miserable are people who speed. Unlike in some places over here the speed limits are generally sensible, speeding above those limits is inherently dangerous.
• mabbo 3y ago
  Yes, that's the point.
• potatoicecoffee 3y ago
  go less fast than the speed limit