Comment on Driver caught doing 122mph on 30mph road as UK’s shocking speed records revealed

• RampantParanoia2365@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Yes, the road has changed from 45 to 30, so naturally we’ll go…checks notes…120.

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  • Venator@lemmy.nz ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Yeah not saying it was an appropriate speed for the previous area 😅 (except if the road was closed for a rally) just maybe explains how it was physically possible.

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    • echodot@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      There’s a road near me that clearly should be a 50 but they can’t be arsed so they’ve just slapped to 30 limit on it. It’s long straight has no hills has two lanes and a central reservation, it’s a perfectly safe road.

      But at 150 mph that road would be a death sentence, because it has a very very slight curvature to it, so slight that you barely even notice that you are going around the corner your brain just automatically has you turn the steering wheel ever so slightly. At 150 though the motion would probably destabilize the car.

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