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durkie | 1 year ago

How does setting a speed limit "too low" make a road more dangerous?

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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?