The question should be "has there been a speed limit before the cars are designed the way to be capable of going much faster then the speed limit by itself"? Y

The question should be "has there been a speed limit before the cars are designed the way to be capable of going much faster then the speed limit by itself"? You asking the question the wrong way:) Just, we have a lot of different cars today. Some are for comfortable driving, some address the aggressive part of one's personality with capabilities to go very fast. And that: very fast. Fact is, you can go on any street very fast. If your car allows, you also can conquer that one curve over there with sounding tires.. even the weakest car can be pushed to its limits. The law makers look at the street and decide what's the fastest speed you can go without being to dangerous for yourself and for others. For not having a jungle of different possible speeds for each road, law makers decided to have like three classes of speed 30/40 km/h for inner city - 50/60 km/h for the big streets and 80+130 km/h for the countryside and Autobahn highspeed roads. So.. should the cars be designed to be slower than speed limit, when speed limit have been chosen deliberately? What's the problem of cars being faster than speed limit, of one's adhere to the limit? Of course, the measurements of oneself with others in a competitive manner play a role, too. Because the men are like they are, we need rules of which speed limit is one of...