"James C. Reeves" > wrote in
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>
> "Nate Nagel" > wrote in message
> ...
>> MidnightDad wrote:
>>
>>> Speed limits are tuned for the _average_ driver in the _average_
>>> vehicle. Just because you think YOU have the catlike reflexes and
>>> the ultimate driving machine to handle speeds well above the posted
>>> limit, that doesn't mean you are issued an exemption. There's only
>>> one speed limit posted.
>>
>> Bull****. Speed limits, at least in my area, are set for a car so
>> obsolete that it doesn't exist on the road today and a driver so
>> incompetent that he shouldn't be allowed behind the wheel anyway.
>> That's why they are so universally ignored.
>>
>> nate
>>
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> When I started driving the DC Beltway was two lane in most places and
> the SL was 70MPH (except around the Bethesda "rollercoaster" where it
> was 60). Now it's 4-5 lane and the SL is 55MPH. So, the limits are
> actually _lower_ today than they were back when vehicles had far worse
> handling characteristics.
>
>

Back in 1973 there were highways with 70 MPH speed limits posted,mostly out
west.If it was safe back then for those lesser cars,then today's limits
should be much higher.

But they are not,so that kills the idea that limits are 'tuned' entirely.

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