Re:NTSB Calls for Alcohol Detection Systems in All New Vehicles
by leetcrew on Tuesday September 20, 2022 @06:03PM
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yes and no. I do suspect that limits are often adjusted for reasons that have more to do with revenue than safety. but at the same time, the designed speed of a road isn't always appropriate for the surroundings. 55 could be an reasonable limit for a country road at the time of construction, but way too high when a bunch of shops and homes are built around it later on. ideally the road itself would be modified to reflect that, but there isn't always money for these types of projects.
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Re:NTSB Calls for Alcohol Detection Systems in All New Vehicles
by MandieD on Tuesday September 20, 2022 @07:11PM
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There are a lot of roads around Austin that are FM (some number). The “FM” means Farm-to-Market, and they literally were built from little farming towns through miles of fields into larger towns.
Some of those little farming towns are now rapidly frowning suburbs, teeming with housing tracts, and those fields are now shopping center upon shopping center.