Example: Traffic Speed. Everyone always exceed the speed limit on highways. Why do we still have the limit? Like, either enforce it, or remove it. This stuff doesn’t make sense at all.

    • strawberry@kbin.earth
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      9 hours ago

      its more of a suggestion of what speed you should go, and as long as everyone is going the same, its no problem

      for example:

      speed limit is 55, but it’s open road, everyone goes 65

      or on the highway, left lane is always going 90+, even though the speed limit is 70

      as long as everyone is doing the same and behaving themselves, no one has a problem with anyone

      that’s my opinion on the matter at least

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      3 hours ago

      It’s only de facto legal until something goes wrong. If a crash occurred and someone was speeding that’d be considered a contributing factor to the crash.

      Even if speeding itself wasn’t illegal, there would need to be a definition of what reckless driving is, and speed in comparison to the road is a good measure of that, because it’s directly proportional to the lack of control of the vehicle.