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Re:Tesla to recall vehicles that may disobey stop signs by throwaway894345 on Tuesday February 01, 2022 @04:37PM (#30169722)
Agreed, and these roadways are all over the country. It's a pretty widely known fact that the safest speed is the natural flow of traffic, but municipalities all over the country are much more inclined to listen to the vocal minority over traffic engineers. Not a lot of "trust the science" going on there.

https://qz.com/969885/almost-every-speed-limit-is-too-low/

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Re:Tesla to recall vehicles that may disobey stop signs by Xylakant on Tuesday February 01, 2022 @04:49PM (#30169908)
The solution to that is not that everybody gets to ignore speed limits and point to a QZ article as justification. The solution is not that Tesla unilaterally decides that 10% more is fine, everywhere, all of the time. The solution is what the advocate in your article proposes - make a conscious decision to raise the speed limit on certain roads, backed with suitable data.
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Re:Tesla to recall vehicles that may disobey stop signs by throwaway894345 on Tuesday February 01, 2022 @06:31PM (#30171265)
That’s a lot of snark for such an obtuse comment. Obviously we should fix our laws, but in the meantime we shouldn’t imperil ourselves and everyone around us just to pacify the people who lobby their municipal governments for unsafe speed limits.
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