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Comment Re:Maybe stick to the speed limit? (Score 1) 187

No signage at all?

Preferably as little as possible. Street name signs are fine.

How many 6-year-olds near schools would that kill?

Probably no different than now.

No "deaf child" warnings?

This sign is literally useless. A child being deaf is completely irrelevant to a driver. Nor does it provide a driver with any instruction. Nor should the child (any child) be that close to or in the street for any reason.

Driving is a right deriving from the right of liberty

Absolutely not. Driving is a privilege because driving is something that must be earned. A license (of any sort) is literally a form of privilege to do whatever the license allows you to do.

Comment Re:Maybe stick to the speed limit? (Score 1) 187

No, what you say is not at all true. People can afford cars

No, they can't. Not if they're as poor as you suggest.

alternatives to cars are often prohibitively expensive.

No, they aren't.

Driving is not optional for most of the country

Yes, it is. At least in terms of "needing" your own personal vehicle.

especially in rural places where they grow food

Farms, as they are called, needs vehicles, sure, but also farmhands earn at least $15, or more, an hour. They are not that poor.

Also, most real jobs, like growing food, cannot be done remotely.

Technically true, but barely. 40% of all jobs in the US can be done from home. Plenty of those jobs are just as real as farming.

Comment Re:Maybe stick to the speed limit? (Score 1) 187

income tax

Which they get back, plus extra, at refund time.

health insurance

Unless they get it from their job, or some other source, they probably just skip this entirely.

For your example, that person wouldn't be able to afford a car to begin with, so they're already depending on busses, ride shares, or rides from friends/coworkers.

Comment Re: Maybe stick to the speed limit? (Score 1) 187

Dude the 85th percentile is literally a measure of what 85% of people drive when no signs are posted, based on their vehicles capabilities, road design, weather, and road conditions.

This assumes that this is the standard - which it is not and is becoming even less so as places are switching away. Also it literally cannot account for road conditions or weather as that changes everyday. A normally posted speed limit of 45mph is no longer appropriate during inclement weather.

What are you arguing for, 90, 95%, the maximum, no limit?

Standardization that requires no signage. No suddenly dropping a speed limit by 10mph for 1000ft and then back up for no fucking reason. A higher barrier of entry to get a driver's license to begin with - it's too easy to obtain and keep. Most people are taught just enough to "follow" most traffic laws well enough to pass their initial driver's test, but not actually taught how to drive "correctly" while following those laws. I don't agree with our current system of speed limits, how they're displayed, and how they're enforced, but that doesn't mean I think everyone should just be driving however, whenever. There is a correct, efficient way of driving and it's not something that is taught as part of getting a license. The type of driver you described is exactly the type that would never even get a license to begin with in my system.

Comment Re:Maybe stick to the speed limit? (Score 1) 187

It doesn't matter that much if most drivers ignore the signs, because like you said, the signs are based on the behavior of most drivers. The signs are telling you what most drivers think is a safe speed, right?

Until they don't. Because it wasn't universally adopted and is getting further away from being so. There is no real standardization.

Comment Re:Maybe stick to the speed limit? (Score 1) 187

You assume that because I disagree with how speed limits are currently implemented and that I would prefer a system of no signage with higher penalties for "accidents" as well as a higher barrier of entry to obtain a driver's license that I also must be an unsafe driver just driving however I want everywhere? Because that would make you both stupid and wrong. I am perfectly capable of following current traffic laws and speed limits while knowing they're complete bullshit and overall a terrible system to maintain.

Too many people think that being able to drive a vehicle is some right that they have. It is a privilege that too many take for granted and don't deserve to have.

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