New York and Michigan recently passed laws allowing local jurisdictions to lower speed limits, and Los Angeles voters backed safer road designs, but enforcement often meets political resistance. The number of pedestrians killed or injured on the road remains high.
Because lower speeds? The opposite maybe. The average speeds during rush hour is so incredibly low that this will not affect anything there (possibly delay traffic jam forming even).
Outside rush hour the time gain from higher speeds is marginal at best outside cities, inside cities you keep the lower speeds anyway due to congestion.
No it is not similar to internet traffic. Roads can process a maximum number of vehicles per hour before they congest. If you reduce the speed the max of a road it takes longer for congestion to occur.
It is not as if this is a new insight, and you might want to drive fast because that is your god given freedom or something… but in terms of getting from A to B max speed < average speed
Because lower speeds? The opposite maybe. The average speeds during rush hour is so incredibly low that this will not affect anything there (possibly delay traffic jam forming even).
Outside rush hour the time gain from higher speeds is marginal at best outside cities, inside cities you keep the lower speeds anyway due to congestion.
You know why people go faster, right? It’s similar to faster internet service.
No it is not similar to internet traffic. Roads can process a maximum number of vehicles per hour before they congest. If you reduce the speed the max of a road it takes longer for congestion to occur.
It is not as if this is a new insight, and you might want to drive fast because that is your god given freedom or something… but in terms of getting from A to B max speed < average speed