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Comment by m463

Note the way to do this is to follow engineering rules.

Take the 85th percentile rule.

If you take a neighborhood road and change it from 40mph to 25mph in an attempt to "save the children", you can easily make it more dangerous.

The 85th percentile rule figures how fast people go on a road, and sets an appropriate speed limit that people naturally follow. Attempting to set a speed limit too low or too high leads to a wide speed variance, which makes the road more dangerous.

parent m463 2 years ago

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