• A_Chilean_Cyborg@feddit.cl
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    4 hours ago

    I never understood why americans seem to feel entitled to drive illegally fast over an already heavily overestimated speed limit on their humongous death machines they call cars.

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      4 hours ago

      Speed limits in the U.S. aren’t set to any specific standard. 6 lane divided highways and laneless rural roads carry the same speed limit.

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          1 hour ago

          Speed limits are routinely posted 30-50% below the actual “maximum safe speed” in my neck of the woods. The US is many things, but it’s far from homogenous

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          3 hours ago

          It really depends on what you mean by too high. The standard speed limits we have are fine. The road design is not.

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      3 hours ago

      Please. There are many places in the world with no posted or higher speed limits and far more deadly traffic related accidents than Americans with their “humongous death machines.” Want to bash Americans for stupidly large, numerous, and wasteful cars? Sure. But we’re nowhere near the top of the list for deaths or speed.