The Federal Highway Administration quietly stripped bike lanes and other safety recommendations from a key list of best practices. Critics say those measures are proven to cut crashes and save lives.
Bike lanes, variable speed limits, speed safety cameras, appropriate speed limits for all road users, and road diets
Were all the things removed
our traffic fatalities by 100,000 inhabitants far exceeds that of many industrialized countries and puts the U.S. in the company of Chile and Costa Rica
Do you remember exactly what your speedometer said 12 days, 6 hours, 14 minutes, and 44 seconds ago? How do you plan to fight the ticket, tell them it’s too close to call and hope they agree?
What the fuck are you on about? You appeal tickets based on whether the camera recorded your speed correctly and if it had been calibrated properly. If it clocked you as doing 43 when you were doing 40 then one or the other is the case. Otherwise you were speeding and you deserve a ticket.
Your speedometer hits exactly the speed limit and never ticks over that, does it? Never? Never to pass, never with a little latent throttle when cresting a hill, never when a truck’s draft eases your drag, never when a speed limit gets reduced? Just a peachy perfect driver, eh? I assume you’ve actually calibrated your speedometer as well and aren’t trusting one of the most well-known inaccurate devices in the world, right?
You have no proof of your exact speed. “Cross my heart, judge, I have never exceeded the speed limit in my life” doesn’t work. There’s a reason speed readers must be calibrated and a tolerance zone must be excluded. You clearly don’t know the first thing about metrology.