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Re:Apple delivers a new redesigned Maps for users in the Uni... by loeg on Thursday January 30, 2020 @10:57PM (#22198899)
This would be a great idea if speed limits were set by any plausibly reasonable process, but in truth they are set arbitrarily and capriciously.
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Re:Apple delivers a new redesigned Maps for users in the Uni... by reaperducer on Thursday January 30, 2020 @11:15PM (#22198984)
This would be a great idea if speed limits were set by any plausibly reasonable process, but in truth they are set arbitrarily and capriciously.

Demonstrably untrue. There is an entire very technical industry for this sort of thing. People who take an interest in their communities and go to planning and city council meetings know this. Those who are not involved their communities just complain and blame it on The Man out to get them.

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Re:Apple delivers a new redesigned Maps for users in the Uni... by loeg on Thursday January 30, 2020 @11:22PM (#22199028)
It's extremely variable. You have traffic engineers, sure, but you also have politicians pushing top-down reactive policies to appeal to the limited minority of voters who happen to have the time to go to city council meetings. To say it is "demonstrably untrue" as some universal truth is objectively false.
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Re:Apple delivers a new redesigned Maps for users in the Uni... by theshrike79 on Friday January 31, 2020 @05:05AM (#22200430)
Yes, lowering the speed limit on a 30 degree declining hill from 100kph to 60kph and having a speed camera at the bottom is "very technical" and not a clear money maker.

You need to break pretty hard to not get fined.

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Re:Apple delivers a new redesigned Maps for users in the Uni... by coryfklein on Friday January 31, 2020 @01:18PM (#22203963)
> There is an entire very technical industry for this sort of thing.

The industry being technical does nothing to prevent it's general rules from being dictated by politics. If an engineer does a study that shows no significant increase in injury by increasing the speed limit 10 MPH, I find it highly unlikely the city or state is going to approve it based on those findings.

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