SPEED LIMITS
A culmination of pictures depicting speed limits, speeding, and related terms and their "value" in protecting people.
Speed limits, general traveling speed, has always been a concern ever since the development of powered transportation devices. Horses, trains, planes, cars, all these things have rules over speed, some of which are actually based in decent reason. Speed laws governing over the traveling speeds of motor vehicles on paved roads have been of special interest to many individuals lately. Laws have been updated on a regular basis, and some states, like Oregon for example, have neglected to recognize the higher, and more logical speeds, of over seventy miles per hour on freeways. Statistically it has been proven that by traveling at higher speeds, persons driving on the road are more heightened and aware of their surroundings, as compared to passively driving at lower, less fuel economic speeds.1 The states could really stand to get some standardized statistical data out there to base their speed changing judgments upon rather than a set of information pointed, biased, and overpriced. Yet again the idea stands, if you cannot handle the high speeds, you will either suffer destruction of your and/or your car and driver slower, or drive perfectly fine and get along with everyone on the road without fatalities. It would seem that only testing and decently acquired data will tell the truth.
1http://www.sense.bc.ca/research.htm