• @[email protected]
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      410 months ago

      The problem with proposing infrastructure is that people hate it. Even if it would be beneficial. Train traffic is limited to 79 mph in the US because the companies in charge were told “put in more safety devices or you’re limited to 79 mph”, and they said “okay sure”.

      They usually act like anything that wasn’t around when they were born is impossible. I can’t imagine trying to get a smoking ban passed now, or capping the national speed limit at 55 because of an oil crisis.

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          10 months ago

          i don’t think they’d spend the money to add cameras too for every sign, when you can just put on a mask for them. i was half joking but yeah, i would definitely prefer not to have transmitters control the speed of my car

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      110 months ago

      Generally temporary speed limit changes just go down, so the worst case is for a little while your car will let you speed. And if it goes up but the town fucks up and doesn’t update the database, people will complain while being forced to drive a little slower than the new maximum.