• snooggums@lemmy.world
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    1 hour ago

    Cool, he vetoed one thing that I agree should have been vetoed.

    People are not getting into speeding accidents because they don’t know they are speeding. This would solve nothing, but woukd be a distraction any time it triggers off an incorrectly indexed speed limit.

    • jol@discuss.tchncs.de
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      54 minutes ago

      Yup. My understanding is that the roads have a much higher effect on driving. Design roads for slow traffic and you will get slow traffic.

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        5 minutes ago

        Milton Keynes, in the UK, seems to have nailed this. It’s effectively a grid of roundabouts. When the roads are empty, you can race along at 60mph (legally). As soon as it starts to build, the road naturally slows to 40, then 30mph. No cameras etc needed.

        It also has the red ways. You can walk most places, without having to cross a major road. It uses underpasses for pedestrians and bikes etc.

    • AlexWIWA@lemmy.ml
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      41 minutes ago

      Every speed limit on Google maps is wrong in my area so yeah this bill is a horrible idea

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      44 minutes ago

      I assume the idea is to be like the seatbelt beeps: they prevent the unwanted behavior by being too annoying to ignore for more than a few seconds.

  • Phegan@lemmy.world
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    53 minutes ago

    The solution to speeding isn’t to tell people they are speeding, it’s to make people feel comfortable speeding via good urban design.