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In america, speed limits are about municipal police funding. For the downvoters, “The speed limit is alternately too low on interstate highways, giving police
by eep_social 3y ago
In america, speed limits are about municipal police funding.
For the downvoters, “The speed limit is alternately too low on interstate highways, giving police discretion to make stops at will”
https://slate.com/business/2021/12/speed-limit-americas-most-broken-law-history.html https://slate.com/business/2021/12/speed-limit-americas-most...
- jrockway 3y agoThe speed limit on interstate highways is too low. There are no Amazon packages being delivered to homes whose driveways go directly on to the interstate.
- eep_social 3y agoCorrect. It’s not a great citation because I assumed that the average HN reader knows the games municipal police play with speed limits but I got downvotes and (at the time) no replies.