• MisterFrog@lemmy.world
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    5 hours ago

    Engineers should absolutely include traffic calming features to get people to naturally slow down, but everyone should drive the limit.

    Speed kills, kinetic energy is not linear.

    Cars are tonnes of metal hurtling down the road. Thousands upon thousands die every year, and since the increased prevalence of massive US style trucks fatalities have RISEN, undoing decades of progress. (Both in the US, and elsewhere)

    People driving 20 over the limit are arseholes (or have been influenced by car centric infrastructure and culture). Change my mind.

    Speeding is never okay. Just that lots of people have convinced themselves it’s no big deal.