Speed limits on motorways are pointless.

[Sanghead]

Other roads where pedestrians are not permitted are also included, like legit i'm sick of staying at only 70 mph (110 km/h).

[=CrimsoN=]

Nguyên văn bởi Coffinmaw:

It would be hell for commercial vehicles that can't go fast. Or older people who don't have the reaction times to handle an Autobahn-like roadway. Nice on paper, bad in execution.

I mean, I drive a commercial vehicle. I have a class A license and can tell you 100% that most truck drivers are speeding themselves. I can't speed because our trucks have monitors in them that go off if you go 7 miles over the speed limit (which is actually very annoying), but its made me very aware to the extent that people speed. Literally everyone speeds. Even little old ladies. I don't think most of them realize it though because they don't have anything monitoring their speed.

[Jonathan Sensei]

Nguyên văn bởi Comrade✮Red:

Nguyên văn bởi Coffinmaw:

It would be hell for commercial vehicles that can't go fast. Or older people who don't have the reaction times to handle an Autobahn-like roadway. Nice on paper, bad in execution.

I mean, I drive a commercial vehicle. I have a class A license and can tell you 100% that most truck drivers are speeding themselves. I can't speed because our trucks have monitors in them that go off if you go 7 miles over the speed limit (which is actually very annoying), but its made me very aware to the extent that people speed. Literally everyone speeds. Even little old ladies. I don't think most of them realize it though because they don't have anything monitoring their speed.

So raise the speed limits.

[=CrimsoN=]

Nguyên văn bởi Coffinmaw:

Nguyên văn bởi Comrade✮Red:

I mean, I drive a commercial vehicle. I have a class A license and can tell you 100% that most truck drivers are speeding themselves. I can't speed because our trucks have monitors in them that go off if you go 7 miles over the speed limit (which is actually very annoying), but its made me very aware to the extent that people speed. Literally everyone speeds. Even little old ladies. I don't think most of them realize it though because they don't have anything monitoring their speed.

So raise the speed limits.

Or just eliminate them ;)

[Jonathan Sensei]

Nguyên văn bởi Comrade✮Red:

Nguyên văn bởi Coffinmaw:

So raise the speed limits.

Or just eliminate them.

When self-driving cars become the norm, then we will eliminate them. Until then, people still don't know how to drive so the signs will stay.

[Cleverhardy (She/Her)]

Well, if you're serious, allow me to introduce you to the German Autobahn. It basically has no limits (apart from a few advisory ones here and there).

[Sanghead]

Nguyên văn bởi Coffinmaw:

Nguyên văn bởi Comrade✮Red:

Or just eliminate them.

When self-driving cars become the norm, then we will eliminate them. Until then, people still don't know how to drive so the signs will stay.

I hope self-driving cares never become the norm, how boring will that be? think about it

[Jonathan Sensei]

Nguyên văn bởi Juan:

Nguyên văn bởi Coffinmaw:

When self-driving cars become the norm, then we will eliminate them. Until then, people still don't know how to drive so the signs will stay.

I hope self-driving cares never become the norm, how boring will that be? think about it

It would be better then having to deal with idiots on the road. At least with self-driving cars, no one can go faster or slower then someone else. It will clear up a lot of issues on the road currently.

[CodeGreen]

Nguyên văn bởi John Doe:

This is not safe:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rOhxxX06FGI

Wow I haven't got this far with that speed, I'm usually cautious on driving on roads and I feel it's kinda nuts on driving off like that. Atleast the cars didn't switch lanes when he's driving at 160 mph and there's no other reason to switch at the overtaking lane of course but there are some jerks who does that sometimes.

[John Doe]

I have a chip for our A4 Quattro, don't know if it raises the 250 kph governor limit but if it does, then my max would be 280. Mine goes much more steady than a Mustang at those speeds, I think Mustang shocks are garbage. Got a sporty air suspension on mine, along with Torsen AWD of course. I've reached 182 kph, but yeah, it is scary and dumb.

[Leoandoreosmom]

Where I live, the speed limits are not as important as the size of your vehicle. I do not care how fast or slow you are going, if your vehicle is twice the size of mine I will gladly get out of your way. I generally stick to them or slightly over, but I will ALWAYS yield to the crazy idiot who has a monster truck 2 inches from my spare wheel cover (2011 Rav4)

[Sanghead]

Nguyên văn bởi Leoandoreosmom:

Where I live, the speed limits are not as important as the size of your vehicle. I do not care how fast or slow you are going, if your vehicle is twice the size of mine I will gladly get out of your way. I generally stick to them or slightly over, but I will ALWAYS yield to the crazy idiot who has a monster truck 2 inches from my spare wheel cover (2011 Rav4)

Yeah that's a good point, i hate middle aged women having massive 4x4's thinking they own the road due to having a family, ♥♥♥♥♥ gtfo.

[BossGalaga]

Nguyên văn bởi Juan:

Other roads where pedestrians are not permitted are also included, like legit i'm sick of staying at only 70 mph (110 km/h).

Right, it's not like anything could possibly ever go wrong and the faster you're going, the less reaction time you have and the more likely you would be to over/under-correct or not have any time at all to correct and suffer critical injury or death. But like I said, that's just completely hypothetical. Everyone should just be able to go 100mph at all times.

[=CrimsoN=]

Nguyên văn bởi Juan:

Nguyên văn bởi Coffinmaw:

When self-driving cars become the norm, then we will eliminate them. Until then, people still don't know how to drive so the signs will stay.

I hope self-driving cares never become the norm, how boring will that be? think about it

I wouldnt mind it as long as its like something like in iRobot where there is auto pilot in addition to manual driving. You could drive manually if you wanted to, but the option is there for auto pilot. But that would make people more complacent. Computers aren't perfect and can't replace human intuition or inference. People already don't pay attention to speed limit signs...I can't imagine how much less they will pay attention with cars that drive themselves.

like for example that Uber self-driving car that plowed right into someone. Everyone blamed the car, but maybe they should have blamed the driver. I've never been in one of those things, but I cant imagine it not having a brake of some sort. Why didn't the driver simply brake before hitting the person? Answer? They weren't paying a lick of attention.

[John Doe]

Nguyên văn bởi Comrade✮Red:

Nguyên văn bởi Juan:

I hope self-driving cares never become the norm, how boring will that be? think about it

I wouldnt mind it as long as its like something like in iRobot where there is auto pilot in addition to manual driving. You could drive manually if you wanted to, but the option is there for auto pilot. But that would make people more complacent. Computers aren't perfect and can't replace human intuition or inference. People already don't pay attention to speed limit signs...I can't imagine how much less they will pay attention with cars that drive themselves.

like for example that Uber self-driving car that plowed right into someone. Everyone blamed the car, but maybe they should have blamed the driver. I've never been in one of those things, but I cant imagine it not having a brake of some sort. Why didn't the driver simply brake before hitting the person? Answer? They weren't paying a lick of attention.

Auto pilot systems are way more perfect than humans in theory, they're just not implemented well enough today to save the day. Humans make mistakes and it costs lives. Ever since the release of Tesla's auto-pilot, the amount of crashes it involved into have actually only been a handful. You get a "Self-driving car rammed into house" on the news in months time and everybody says they're crap. In the meanwhile, *people* crash cars every day to no end.

Check the system out, it's pretty sophisticated. The thing has cameras and radars in all edges of the car. Even if you don't use it and keep the system on in the background, it saves the car from a crash more often than getting into one.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=--xITOqlBCM

[Frocobo]

I remember when Italy raised the limit on autostradas by a fair chunk following studies suggesting higher speeds (on motorways) improve driver focus and driving behaviour.