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Speed limits in the U.S. aren't set to any specific standard. 6 lane divided highways and laneless rural roads carry the same speed limit.

When I first went to the US, the unrealistically low speed limits were one of the first things I noticed when driving.

I kinda assumed that this is by design so that police can pull over anyone they feel like since virtually everyone drives over the speed limit in some areas as it is so ridiculously low.

The way speeds are decided are rather ridiculous too. If I recall in some places (ahem: suburbia), it's some kind of consensus of local landowners.

So they'll set the speed limit to 35 mph along a ridiculously long and straight road with nothing on either side but suburb entrances and sidewalks.

The limits in my city are such that going 10 over is usually no big deal. It's weird.

Because also if you stuck exactly to that limit, everyone drives dangerously around you because they'd go faster driving a horse and buggy lol.

Yeah, I live in small-town US where many residents have complained about speeding in areas with heavy pedestrian use. In response, the local PD was quoted on the front page of the paper saying they don't have time to enforce speed limits. A few years later and they were again on the front page saying that they don't have time or equipment to enforce parking regulations. So here they're somewhere between suggestion and completely ignored, but the next town over is filled with speed cameras and highway patrol sitting in wait to meet their quota...both towns on the same road.

It is a thing. Now, locals might be ignoring it, but that's because they know where it is unlikely they will get caught. If you're not a local it is better to keep it or at most drive the same speed as everyone else.

I've been in Poland recently and the speed signs seem to be designed to make very hard to maintain them, like they want to have easy way to ticket anyone.

Like you're driving, there's 70km/h then 50 then 70, then 90, then 50 (pedestrian crossing, it is always 50) then 90 and all within short distance. I noticed that many drivers either go faster over 50 zones or if they in 90 zone go slower so they don't have to reduce speed from 90 to 50.

In US (or at least in California) seems to be more stable. So you have 35mph on roads, 25 on residential areas (usually you don't go through them unless you're reaching your destination) and 65 on freeway. There might be some signs that modify the speed (make it higher or lower depending on condition of the road) but it feels justified.

I also visited Czechia and their speed limits seem to be more reasonable and easier to follow.

$4,000 in tickets pwr person??

Jfc 😅

half of the department’s 50 officers "had been suspended, demoted, terminated or dishonorably discharged from their previous law enforcement jobs," the station said, citing personnel records obtain under a Freedom of Information request.

The shocking part is where it says that's only 5X the cops for a town that size. Wtf? One or two should suffice in a town that small. We have a town here with just over a thousand, and they have no city cops at all.

Those are prolly local kids they know. You only ding out of towners.

Sure... but 2 miles per hour over the limit? Even the greatest drivers sometimes or frequently go 2 miles per hour over the limit.

Brookville Indiana.

Got busted drinking a beer while canoeing. While doing my community service, the locals told us the bend in the river with the guy drinking at a picnic table was actually a cop. He cheers every boat going down the river and if you cheers back, he radios you description down river to his buddies and they pull you out of the river.

There was another group in our "substance abuse class" that said they were camping and lit a joint around the camp fire and the local police came out of the woods in tactical gear and night vision goggles to cite them.

Fuck that place

It's legalized banditry.