▲ 289 ▼ American Drivers Think Speeding Is Okay Because Everyone Else Is Doing It (www.jalopnik.com) submitted 2 days ago by CombatWombat@feddit.online to c/fuckcars@lemmy.world 204 comments fedilink hide all child comments What's a little extra 5 or 10 mph on the clock?
[–] brygphilomena@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 22 hours ago (3 children) The other aspect is that we typically are against automated enforcement regardless of the law. We typically want people to be in the loop. If there were more visible traffic cops, people tend to slow down to the limit. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 6 child comments replies: [–] sem@piefed.blahaj.zone 1 point 13 hours ago* Well if the limit was actually meant as a limit, they could at least send an automatic warning. 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. permalink fedilink source parent [–] LodeMike@lemmy.today 1 point 13 hours ago Automated enforcement just invites cities to do extremely vile things like kill people by lowering yellow light durations. permalink fedilink source parent [–] SeptugenarianSenate@leminal.space -1 points 21 hours ago Autonomous weapons go brrr permalink fedilink source parent
[–] sem@piefed.blahaj.zone 1 point 13 hours ago* Well if the limit was actually meant as a limit, they could at least send an automatic warning. 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. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] LodeMike@lemmy.today 1 point 13 hours ago Automated enforcement just invites cities to do extremely vile things like kill people by lowering yellow light durations. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] SeptugenarianSenate@leminal.space -1 points 21 hours ago Autonomous weapons go brrr permalink fedilink source parent