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This sounds like a distinctly cultural problem where the word ‘limit’ clearly doesn’t mean very much to the population in question.

It’s a limit, not a target, and certainly not a floor as some USAsians seem to treat it.

Here in Australia you can be fined for exceeding the limit by less than 10km/h. Yes, even if you are 1km/h over, and whilst this would probably get thrown out in court you’d still have to take time off to attend court.

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faythofdragons@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
In the US it’s technically a target, since you can be ticketed for going too fast or too slow.

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FireRetardant@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
It honestly frustrates me so much with the speed limit thing. On a societal level, speed (and differences in speed) tend to be one of the biggest factors in car crashes, so ignoring speeding is just accepting more dangerous roads.

On a peronal level, i try to do the limit or maybe 5-10 over (20 over is the norm in my area, even in school zones). The really frustrating part is as soon as i act like everyone else a try to do 20 over i get a ticket and my insurance goes up. This is frustrating becauae it just feels as if I’m being punished for doing what most people consider to be “safe” and normal. If it was drastically obvious that 20 over is faster than the flow of the traffic, it would feel a lot less frustrating if i get a ticket.

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FelixCress@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

It’s a limit, not a target, and certainly not a floor

It depends what it is. In some nations limits are reasonable and therefore obeyed while in others they are way too low and therefore commonly ignored.

Too strict laws like this lead to people disregarding it. Even worse, it may even lead to other sections of the same subject law being disregarded, because if it is commonly acknowledged that one section of specific law is ridiculous, why not the others.

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Obi@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
Here we have a blanket 3km/h tolerance so they measure you, take 3km/h off and then use that to see which bracket of speeding you fall into (10, 20, etc).

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