• oʍʇǝuoǝnu
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    For highway lowering the speed may be effective but lowering the speed limit from 50 to 30 won’t stop drivers from going 50 unless the road is designed for lower speeds. So long as lanes are wide and there are little obstructions for drivers to worry about hitting, such as bumpouts, boulevards, etc., they will go as fast as they feel comfortable unless there is a cop behind them.

    Edit: 50kmh to 30kmh I don’t know what that is in freedom miles

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      1 year ago

      BTW: the mortality is around 50% if a car hits a pedestrian at 50km/h.

      At 30km/h it’s around 3%.

      So yeah, speed in centre ville counts!

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          In Germany the speed limit in Cities is 50km/h and in residential zones 30km/h, strong controlled with a lot of radar traps. If you exceed this they screw up your life, in case of hitting a pedestrian even possible with jail time. It cannot be confused by the lack of speed limit on some highway sections, that traffic regulations are very strict and controlled in Germany and any violation can be very expensive.

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            I think that comment was meant as a joke because if a car hits a pedestrian, its obviously not the driver who gets injured…

            Anyway, we do have speed radars in Germany but I have not seen one in a 30-zone and inside the city they are rather rare I’d say…

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              Well, respect radar control, it depends also in which city or village you are of the local administration, in some are existing only few and in others on every corner. Often also mobile radarstations in “civil” parking police cars.

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      Or just do like we do in the US and place an “undercover” cop every quarter mile behind street signs.

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      Not really. People don’t obey perfectly, but there are still enough speed traps here in Germany (called Blitzer) so that most people don’t go completely bonkers.

      It’s an enforcement problem, mostly. And given harsh enough fees, speed traps should basically pay for themselves.