[singingboyo]

> maybe with the exception of freeways where you are not expected to encounter pedestrians.

Freeways require you to reduce speed in those cases as well, possibly even more so. This is pretty well demonstrated by the pileups that occur every winter, and similar (if rarer) incidents caused by dense fog or similar. Pileups at freeway speeds are much worse than the 2, maybe 3 car crashes that occur on city streets.

Yes, there's no pedestrians, but one person hitting a pothole or large puddle and spinning out is all it takes to get a pileup if you're not careful.