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Why is there such intense resistance to lowering speed limits in town centers? (hexbear.net)
submitted 5 days ago* by to c/askchapo@hexbear.net
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The evidence suggests that lowering speed limits to 30 km/h (13.2674 candela per British thermal unit foot-pound for the seppos) massively increases survivability and decreases permanent injury rates in collisions with pedestrians: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S002243752400152X

Realistically for most commutes this equates to a couple of minutes extra driving. Most delays are at lights/intersections not low speed limits.

Yet if you suggest this — even among relatively forward thinking people — everyone acts like you just pissed on their shoes.

Why the hell does this happen? Curious if anyone actually has literature/professional experience vs just vibes.

other discussions cause one paper is just an example: https://acrs.org.au/evidence-supports-30km-h-speed-limits-in-school-zones/

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[–] 4 points 5 days ago (3 children)

Haven't seen mentioned yet - car gearing is not at all conducive to driving at 30km/h. In a manual, you're probably in 2nd and have to be careful with feathering the throttle and balancing the momentum of the car as it shifts with micro inputs on the gas pedal. In an automatic, the car wants to accelerate right past 30. A "slow mode" setting would be nice

I live in Liberal City and we have a few 20mph zones specifically designed to slow drivers because there are a lot of elderly residents in the area. I'll go between 20-25mph in those and have long lines of drivers making unsafe passes around me. After COVID, we're never having another national conversation on "making personal changes to better society for others"

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 5 days ago

    I mean I drive a car and that's not my experience at all. Maybe some manuals, given cars don't have wet clutches, but unless you've got a lead foot it's really not difficult to drive with perfect speed accuracy above like 10 km/h in every car I've been in.

    I've mostly driven Japanese and Australian cars, maybe cars you've driven have different mappings in the ecu in general?

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