top | item 41013393 (no title) durkie | 1 year ago How does setting a speed limit "too low" make a road more dangerous? discuss order hn newest m463|1 year ago Safest roads have the speed limit 5-10 mph below the road design speed.see fig 4 on speed variance:https://www.fhwa.dot.gov/publications/research/safety/17098/...going faster or slower than average traffic speed shows markedly greater accident rate.note that this can apply not only to speed limits, but things like express lanes going different speeds than other lanes durkie|1 year ago But you're saying the speed limit (being too high or low) makes the road dangerous. Aren't the people driving their cars too fast making the road dangerous? load replies (1)
m463|1 year ago Safest roads have the speed limit 5-10 mph below the road design speed.see fig 4 on speed variance:https://www.fhwa.dot.gov/publications/research/safety/17098/...going faster or slower than average traffic speed shows markedly greater accident rate.note that this can apply not only to speed limits, but things like express lanes going different speeds than other lanes durkie|1 year ago But you're saying the speed limit (being too high or low) makes the road dangerous. Aren't the people driving their cars too fast making the road dangerous? load replies (1)
durkie|1 year ago But you're saying the speed limit (being too high or low) makes the road dangerous. Aren't the people driving their cars too fast making the road dangerous? load replies (1)
m463|1 year ago
see fig 4 on speed variance:
https://www.fhwa.dot.gov/publications/research/safety/17098/...
going faster or slower than average traffic speed shows markedly greater accident rate.
note that this can apply not only to speed limits, but things like express lanes going different speeds than other lanes
durkie|1 year ago