Wikipedia has a world map for this:
Link: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:World_Speed_Limits.svg
I hate this color scale. So hard to read
It’s ROYGBIV, so it at least makes some amount of sense. But yeah, not as intuitive as just a gradient of one or two colors.
Thankfully in metric so we non Americans can understand what the mph values mean.
Of all the conversions km to mph is the easiest at 60%
This map looked a bit off, so I checked. Russia should be 110(there are only few roads where there is ongoing testing for 130 limit). Mongolia and Armenia should be at 100, Turkey seems to be 130.
Kazakhstan checks out, though. Those crazy batyrs really can drive upwards of 150 without fines. That is, if their horses can make it that fast.
The more unpopulated land a state has, the higher the speed limit, makes sense.
Or Alaska
If you’re doing 80 on ice and snow you aren’t in a car 🤣
Now do traffic accidents per mile driven per state!
Found it. Well, it’s fatalities instead of accidents, but I imagine it’s similar enough.
There doesn’t appear to be any relationship.
The more depressing it is to live in a state the more vehicle fatalities there are.
I just meant the two maps don’t seem to correlate much.
Then why is Ohio green?
Ohio has extremely strict policing on the road. Seems to work.
I moved from Ohio to Texas, and the way the police just don’t pull over people for speeding 20-30 mph over the limit blew me away. Police down here are chumps.
Ohio has become synonymous with lame/depressing. Kids call things “Ohio” now.
I’m sadly aware. But guess who doesn’t die when they drive? Not me, i moved to texas so death by drunk driver it is for me. :(
Edit: messed up what I was trying to say.
Not to the OP, but the red states are all Republican. (Or almost all, I think)
If you consider Pennsylvania, West Virginia, and Kentucky south of the Mason Dixon line there is a strong trend here
Very cool, thanks :D
I’m slightly surprised Vermont is medium considering we hardly have anyone out here but at the same time the few people here are typically oblivious drivers and we are practically a giant mountain range
On the east coast, driving 10-15 miles over the speed limit is considered normal. Some people from other parts of the country have informed me this isn’t true everywhere.
On most Texas roads, it’s expected. Yes, even on the 85 mph ones.
I’ve found 5 over to be much more common in Texas, with the occasional person going faster in light traffic
+10% over is the threshold for speeding tickets in most parts of Texas
I’m not sure this is accurate; I’m pretty sure I-87 through the Adirondacks in New York has a speed limit of 70. I-81 north of Syracuse might also.
I can confirm for you that I-81 is only 65 but you can drive 75 without having to worry about getting pulled over.
I was suspicious, so I looked it up. 40 miles of one road in tx is 85mph.
"What this translates to in reality is an average interstate speed limit of 75 mph in both rural and urban areas (though some segments within city limits are 70 mph).
There are several segments of I-10 and I-20 through the state that have max speed limits of 80 mph.
Then, there’s Texas’s claim to speed limit fame – the single stretch of freeway in the country with a speed limit of 85 mph.
It is located on Texas’s State Highway 130 (a toll road) and stretches just over 40 miles from Austin to near San Antonio." https://www.drivinggeeks.com/texas-speed-limits/
I’ve driven the entirety of that road one time. It ran me about twenty bucks in tolls. To do it once was worth it. With an 85 limit, most were pushing a hundred. I got down to San Antonio in a fraction of the time it would’ve taken via 35. I certainly wouldn’t want to pay that on a daily commute though. I also don’t think I’d want to navigate the speeds some of the more aggressive drivers were going. I did feel a little bit unsafe.
Ngl, I’m one of the ones that usually tends to do 100 when I come back from Austin.
I was close to it but there were still people weaving and going faster. That’s a major league fuckup if you make a mistake.
Fun fact, that’s the road Tesla’s giga factory is built on. Coincidentally, FSD’s max speed is 5 mph higher than that road’s speed limit.
In Montana the ‘limit’ is actually the speed minimum
Driving through Texas is awesome because of the speed limit, but this chart is not accurate. There are several other states with 85 mph speed limits out in no-man’s-land.
Everyone drives like 85-90mph in California
I’ll be real, I really like the 55mph county highways compared to the 65mph interstate. At 55mph you’re closer to the sweet spot for fuel efficiency (for most vehicles around 45mph is the most fuel efficient speed) so you get noticably better gas milage. The 70mph interstates are generally a bit scary because going 75-80 to keep up with traffic just feels too fast and I can feel how much harder it is to control my vehicle compared to going less than 70, plus the engine works noticably harder against the wind to maintain speed.
I also witnessed a crash where a vehicle was going 80ish in a 55 zone on a beltline. They lost control while passing a vehicle, hit the barrier then careened accross three lanes of traffic pinning another vehicle against the opposite barrier. Nobody died and it appeared everyone was largely uninjured (thanks modern crash safety standards!) but the woman in the pinned vehicle was trapped. Point is, going slower they would not have lost control, or if they did they would not have crashed as badly doing so
The 70mph interstates are generally a bit scary because going 75-80 to keep up with traffic just feels too fast and I can feel how much harder it is to control my vehicle compared to going less than 70, plus the engine works noticably harder against the wind to maintain speed.
This very much depends on your vehicle.
I also witnessed a crash where a vehicle was going 80ish in a 55 zone on a beltline
Going 25+ over the speed limit on a road not designed for it is completely different than going 80 on a highway/interstate designed and built for that speed.
Fuel efficiencies aside it doesn’t sound like you have a whole lot of confidence and/or experience behind the wheel (or you have a really really shitty car, your car should be able to handle 70-80 with ease), you should work on that.
You are scared to drive 70 mph? It sounds like you need more training and/or experience driving.
I mean, that’s a velocity you can easily die at. I don’t feel like that’s an unreasonable emotion…
If you aren’t comfortable driving at highway speeds then you should stay off the highway until you obtain the training and/or experience to feel confident. It’s a rather mundane activity for most people.
Oh I’m fully capable of doing it. I’ve handled a 100 mile each direction super commute before and I’m currently considering supercommuting again because my grandmother needs some help with day to day tasks and lives a bit away from me. But what I can do vs what I like to do are 2 very different things, and I’m simply voicing that I do not like high speed limits on roads.
The fact is the severity of a crash increases exponentially with speed (and your margin for error as a driver decreases similarly) and humans aren’t great at driving cars, so as a human who generally wants to continue living, that’s the fear in the back of my head on those high speed bits of highway where some drivers are very insistant on going far beyond the posted speed limit.
Oh and lowering speed limits is good for gas milage and therefore better for emissions. So there plenty of societal good to come from lowering speed limits in general
I mean, in certain ways I agree with you, but it’s rather mundane for most people, because they completely dissociate from the very real dangers that are just factually there. While your rule of thumb works in many cases, personally I never felt comfortable between all the people undercutting safe breaking distance, even when I had lots of routine.
I thought Montana didn’t have a speed limit? Like a Rocky Mountain Autobahn.
I believe that was just for a few years they had roads without limits. My understanding is it didn’t last too long.
It’s 85 mph in Texas so that the smarter people growing up there can then exit the state as quickly as possible.
Color scale should be inverted
I can assure you, that while it says 70-75 on the signs in Cali, the speed is generally 80-95 lest one would obstruct traffic. Generally speaking, obstruction of traffic (driving too slow compared to the speed of surrounding motorists in this context) is much more against the law than going slightly over under most circumstances.
You’re not going to get a ticket for going the speed limit
I have family in the CHP who have confirmed that dickheaded officers absolutely can and will do that as you are an obstruction to traffic if going too much slower than surrounding traffic.
They had some nasty things to say about people like that, but it happens
You’re not going to get a ticket for going the speed limit
“22400. (a) No person shall drive upon a highway at such a slow speed as to impede or block the normal and reasonable movement of traffic unless the reduced speed is necessary for safe operation, because of a grade, or in compliance with law.”
Who to trust: some rando on the Internet just insisting something is true or the people who work for the department that issues those tickets? Hard pick, honestly.
Wow, look at all these sources disagreeing with you! To be fair they were really hard to find_
There’s a difference between going too slow and going the speed limit. Show me one where they were going the speed limit. You’re not going to get a ticket for going the speed limit.
If the rest of traffic is going over the speed limit then you are going slow and can be ticketed.
It’s right there. In the links. Click them, read, learn.
Or, you know, keep insisting something that isn’t true
As long as you keep to the right and use pull offs on roads that have them, then you’re not going to get a ticket for going the speed limit.
https://abc30.com/driving-road-safety-chp-california-highway-patrol/10670043/
The scalr is wrong. Yellow should be lower.
