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by mindcrime 4883 days ago
Yep, traffic is largely self-regulating. Most people know how fast it's safe to drive and do it anyway. The others don't care about the "speed limit". Net effect, the actual posted speed limit and associated laws and corrupt bureaucracy are totally useless.

And never mind that "speed limits" are reverse engineered from observations of the natural speed of traffic in a given area in the first place.[1]

[1]: http://www.ite.org/standards/speed_zoning.pdf