The US is pretty permissive about speeding. In many states there are highways on the outskirts of cities where the average speed of cars is 20mph higher than th

The US is pretty permissive about speeding. In many states there are highways on the outskirts of cities where the average speed of cars is 20mph higher than the speed limit. We've abandoned automatic speed cameras because people want to be able to speed. In South Florida you can take your traffic ticket to The Ticket Clinic, lawyers who for $80 guarantee to get the points against your license removed or your money back. We have so many technological fixes for it too. Modern cars can actually read speed limit signs, yet they don't have a feature to limit the speed of the vehicle to that limit. Some cars have a feature to limit the speed limit depending on whose car keys are in the car, but the owner has to enable it. Even if sometimes you have to speed for some extraordinary circumstance, the car could limit it to <85mph after 30 seconds (the fastest public road speed limit in the US is 85mph). And to reduce the number of drunk driving incidents, all cars could have a built-in breathalyzer. But we don't do these things for the same reason people refused to wear masks during the pandemic: fear of an attack on personal liberty. We care much more about our ability to do terrible things than our responsibility to not do harm. Humans suck. But culturally, some do more than others.