Study Reveals Shocking News: People Ignore The Speed Limit
14th November 2008
… it’s an unintended consequence of the decision by the federal government to mandate a nationwide 55mph speed limit back in 1974. Setting such an artificially low speed limited basically made people realize that speed limits had little, if any, relationship to actual safety regulations, and felt more comfortable trusting their own judgment in terms of what speed was safe for driving.
November 15th, 2008 at 18:01
Newt Gingrich once remarked that Americans perceive speed limits as “targets of opportunity” as opposed to Europeans who perceive them as, you know, actual limits.