Being the one person interrupting the flow is safe how?

Are those chunks of semi tires on the road safe because they're not moving? (Also... they weigh more and move less than the look)

There are roads...

Lmao. These roads are everywhere then. I have in my life not seen a single place where driving speed limit doesn't earn you someone glued to your back, even though a minute ago there was no one behind you.

This is experience from driving all over Europe and the US.

I never took his 200 level class, and to this day I wonder...

Long-Short: got a ticket, did a defensive driving course to have it not affect my driving record, I'm now on a ghost probation. There's no checkups or anything, but if I get another traffic ticket within 3 months of completing that course it's like a default "throw the book at them" stop.

I didn't speed then, I don't speed now, I just don't want to be close to a cop let alone a legally permitted situation where not showing the utmost care, respect, and caution can trigger a qualified immunity action for something minor

Basically the same story again two more times.

Worth noting im a white male presenting person with a clean record, so your milage may vary

I'm still more baffled than my parents were then that there is no such book, and that it is not a book all adults must obviously have simple and continued access to

A federal effort to just fucking count the number of federal laws in effect stopped well in the six digits before the effort was essentially declared impossible

You're not coming to terms with anything yet. Your eyes have cracked open ever so slightly and you're desperately trying to close them again

I speak this all without judgement in the nature of compassion and desire for understanding. I can put it more plainly but you're approaching the truth on your own, and you will gain deeper understanding arriving to the obvious conclusions yourself

This seems to send the message that the speed limit isn't a limit at all, it is just informational, and also an excuse for police to pull anyone over for any subjective reason.

Sure, but just because they are morons, doesn't mean I have to drive faster than what I deem is safe.

This is what people responded to.

The answer to that remains the same. What you deem as safe is irrelevant, what is safe is the speed of traffic. I don't care about blame, I don't care about fault, I don't care about legality, or ideological purity of you're perceived self righteousness. Safety should be the measure all other things hinge off of, full stop.

Under the metric of safety the people who drive much faster or much slower than the speed of traffic are the most dangerous people on the road. They are the cause of and at fault in the most accidents because in both cases, their ego is more important than their or others lives.

For example cops can't tailgate you then give you a ticket for speeding.

Additionally, doing this only on freeways would probably make the roads less safe as drivers would go faster on surface streets. Thr 65mph speed limit was set in the 1950s by 1950s white men for 1950s cars. Freeways are safer than surface streets by multiple factors of 10.

Like perjury. It's almost never pursued, the judge will just order your testimony ignored

Or paying your taxes. You're basically expected to do your best to cheat, especially if you're a corporation

It can be as simple as paint - people will go the speed they feel is appropriate, threat of punishment won't effectively change their behavior. If the road looks smaller than it is or seems to narrow around intersections, people just drive slower

Cheap, easy, science based.

I dont make decisions based on some ideological stance on how things "should" be, I make decisions based on the reality I live in. In reality, what we both live in, the safest speed to drive is objectively, the average speed of traffic. You're certainly free to drive 20 km/h below the average speed, but you're getting down voted because it is an ideological stance not based in reality.

What is the point of making a road that is specifically designed for high speed and then putting a limit on it?

Because once you get within an hour and a half of a major city, you've got hundreds of suburbs feeding into it with everyday commuters trying to drive along side people out there driving like it's GTA.

The only places where it's actually 85 are places where the air lift won't make it to the hospital in time.

I've got my problems with Texas' infrastructure but removing speed limits wouldn't help.