Poll: Speed Limits

[Laika]

Let the question speak for itself.

Voted “yes” in so far as I am willing to consider it, but I’d want more information. Maybe its just one of those days and I’m feeling contrary-wise.

We could just ban cars and resort to horse-and-cart. There max speed is something like 11 miles per hour anyway. But to get many horses is going to be hard to look after and care for.

Or we could dramatically expand the rail and bus transportation systems to reduce the usage of cars.

Or perfect self-driving technologies which *may* become safer in the long-run.

But we’d have to overcome the cultural idea that cars are symbols of freedom, social status and mobility to get people to view these alternatives positively.

The entire transportation system is going to have to be overhauled anyway to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and dependence on fossil fuels anyways. We can save lives whilst we are at it I guess.

 

[ChristineM]

Let the question speak for itself.

I did not vote, its a totally loaded poll which does not allow me to answer honestly.

First, the only accident i have ever had was at about 4 or 5 mph, just pulling out from parking and a child ran into the road between the car parked in front of me and the one in front of that. Luckily the child was only shook up and not injured.

Second, we live in a 30kph zone. (18.64 mph) last October our young cat was killed by a speeding car. The year before part of a house was demolished by a drunken truck driver. Two years before that one tourist killed and one injured by walking out in front of a car traveling below the legal limit. And that's only while i have lived here.

Third, less than 1% of the world is built up (with its environs) are you proposing to limit the other 99% of the world or just the bit you live in?

The only way to reduce deaths on the road is to stop people using the road as a footpath, playground, football pitch, running track, place to stop and chat, somewhere to stand while admiring the view...


Answers, isolate roads from pedestrians, and keep blithering idiot drivers off the road

The problem is not speed limits but people.

Reducing speed limits is not a magic wand, not even your magic wand

 

[Evangelicalhumanist]

Dumb question. Why 20 mph? Why not 0 -- i.e. no driving at all. And walking can result in falls, and falls can result in broken hips, and broken hips in the elderly can lead to death, so stop that, too. And every other thing that can be shown to have resulted in a death, stop 'em all!

 

[SalixIncendium]

We could just ban cars and resort to horse-and-cart. There max speed is something like 11 miles per hour anyway. But to get many horses is going to be hard to look after and care for.

A human can walk on average of 3.1 mph without abusing any animals.

 

[Revoltingest]

Let the question speak for itself.

I see you've made a lot of posters angry.
The issue of accepting some deaths in order to
facilitate convenience & the economy is tough to face.
It's a balancing act. Some deaths must be accepted.

 

[Revoltingest]

A human can walk on average of 3.1 mph without abusing any animals.

Bicycles are extremely efficient.
Even @Wu Wei agrees.

Alas, even they have their dangers...not just from bears.

 

[Kenny]

Let the question speak for itself.

I think we should just go back to horse and buggy.

 

[Revoltingest]

I think we should just go back to horse and buggy.

Is that a call to return to DOS & Netscape?

 

[ChristineM]

Is that a call to return to DOS & Netscape?

Netscape is a bit modern isn't it, those were the good days when we used Novell NetWare 3.

 

[Revoltingest]

Netscape is a bit modern isn't it, those were the good days when we used Novell NetWare 3.

I considered naming some earlier ones, especially pre-Windows.
But I figured that no one would recognize'm.

 

[ChristineM]

I considered naming some earlier ones, especially pre-Windows.
But I figured that no one would recognize'm.

Dos is pre windows, well the earlier versions were

 

[Revoltingest]

Dos is pre windows, well the earlier versions were

I know....in excrutiating detail.

I don't know why "excrutiating" is flagged by my spell checker.
That many letters in a row is hard to read. But it still looks right.

 

[ChristineM]

I know....in excrutiating detail.

I don't know why "excrutiating" is flagged by my spell checker.
That many letters in a row is hard to read. But it still looks right.

Mine tells be its a c problem
excruciating

 

[Revoltingest]

Mine tells be its a c problem
excruciating

Ahah!
That's it!
I knew a dyslexic would be the one to solve the mystery.
(Your type pays more attention to such things.)

Can you believe that I was once a grade school spelling bee champion?
At some point later, werds became the enemy.

 

[Rival]

I considered naming some earlier ones, especially pre-Windows.
But I figured that no one would recognize'm.

Archie?

That's after Windows but I doubt many people know it.

 

[ChristineM]

Ahah!
That's it!
I knew a dyslexic would be the one to solve the mystery.
(Your type pays more attention to such things.)

Can you believe that I was once a grade school spelling bee champion?
At some point later, werds became the enemy.

Can you believe I wasn't?

At least you spelled enemy right

Actually i copied your spelling in to google, and copied the correct spelling back. Is a service i can do occasionally

 

[Revoltingest]

Archie?

That's after Windows but I doubt many people know it.

I used Jughead.

 

[Rational Agnostic]

An imbecile question, shedding no light on anything. You never give up with this ****, do you?

I know you're uncomfortable thinking about giving up the privilege of driving over 20 mph to save lives. But we all have to make sacrifices to save lives.

 

[Revoltingest]

I know you're uncomfortable thinking about giving up the privilege of driving over 20 mph to save lives. But we all have to make sacrifices to save lives.

Ya know.....your OP struck me as performance art, ie, the meaning
lies in what the reader brings to it. I did something similar recently.
It's loads of fun....gets discussions going...but it does cause some
big angry veins to pop out on the foreheads of some people.

 

[Rational Agnostic]

The data shows the opposite of that, but go on I guess.

Show me a dataset that indicates that the majority of fatal crashes in the world occur when drivers are going less than 20 mph. Until then, I'm going to assume that you're blowing smoke.