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There's got to be a term for it, but the factors that influence how fast people drive on a road include how well it's been maintained, how congested it is, but
by chiph 12y ago
There's got to be a term for it, but the factors that influence how fast people drive on a road include how well it's been maintained, how congested it is, but also purely visual factors like whether there are trees or signs or buildings crowding the edges of the roads.
There's also the "They aren't serious about it" effect. Warning signs should be reserved for locations where it really would be dangerous to exceed a certain speed, either because there's an intersection just after the crest of a hill, or a reverse-banked curve, etc. So people have been trained to ignore the warnings because they're so familiar and have proven (most of the time!) to be not all that important.
- Gracana 12y ago"Traffic calming" is the term used for the stuff you described that causes drivers to instinctively slow down. Curb extensions at crosswalks and narrow lanes seem to be the most effective measures, in my personal experience.