In all seriousness I think all cars should cap out at 50 km/h. Like consumer vehicles anyway. If we made all cars weigh much less by making them smaller and made them cap out at a reasonable speed like that it would drastically reduce accident deaths. And if you really need to go somewhere super far away very fast you should just be taking a train or plane anyway.
I always have people passing me when I drive because I drive the speed limit and most people are 10-20mph over it at all times. Atleast where I live. It’s so dangerous.
Train infrastructure first, then massive car limitations. Because it would not be beneficial to the average person to make it prohibitively expensive to travel to the next big city over in your state. I have to drive about 3 hours on a relatively regular basis, your proposed speed limit would turn it into like a 9 hour drive
I’d much rather just take a train but no such animal exists
50kph (31mph) is a bit slow for intercity highway travel. we could start by re-enacting nmsl, signed by nixon (some people will need to be reminded that it was a republican, nixon, that implemented 55mph… not carter) in '74, that established the 55mph maximum speed limit after israeli allies found themselves on the wrong side of an oil embargo (the '73 oil crisis).
oh yeah totally, i’m mostly lamenting the inability to use this car in the US due to protectionism and stupidity despite literally sharing a border with mexico.
Not sure if it’s common in the US but in Europe there’s usually a higher speed limit for cars than for trucks and busses on highways which seems super unnecessary.
at a top-speed of 50 kph this thing will 2000% be illegal and dangerous to drive in the US since it can’t reach highway speed here unfortunately.
In all seriousness I think all cars should cap out at 50 km/h. Like consumer vehicles anyway. If we made all cars weigh much less by making them smaller and made them cap out at a reasonable speed like that it would drastically reduce accident deaths. And if you really need to go somewhere super far away very fast you should just be taking a train or plane anyway.
I always have people passing me when I drive because I drive the speed limit and most people are 10-20mph over it at all times. Atleast where I live. It’s so dangerous.
Train infrastructure first, then massive car limitations. Because it would not be beneficial to the average person to make it prohibitively expensive to travel to the next big city over in your state. I have to drive about 3 hours on a relatively regular basis, your proposed speed limit would turn it into like a 9 hour drive
I’d much rather just take a train but no such animal exists
50kph (31mph) is a bit slow for intercity highway travel. we could start by re-enacting nmsl, signed by nixon (some people will need to be reminded that it was a republican, nixon, that implemented 55mph… not carter) in '74, that established the 55mph maximum speed limit after israeli allies found themselves on the wrong side of an oil embargo (the '73 oil crisis).
oh yeah totally, i’m mostly lamenting the inability to use this car in the US due to protectionism and stupidity despite literally sharing a border with mexico.
Not sure if it’s common in the US but in Europe there’s usually a higher speed limit for cars than for trucks and busses on highways which seems super unnecessary.
the reason to do that is stopping distance
that isn’t uncommon in the u.s., but it’s not found everywhere. some jurisdictions have a lower nighttime speed limit for trucks or all vehicles, too.
Good thing that doesn’t matter to us here at all 🤷
Yes, OP mentions that as well