“If cars had no choice but to obey speed limits, the artificially low limits you see would go away” You have an awful lot of faith in the diligence and responsiveness of our governments to changing conditions, don’t you?

I mean that’s patently wrong and it is completely legal in many states to exceed the speed limit while passing:

I will never understand why speed is ALWAYS the scapegoat. Too often you see news reports where its “Speeding Driver Causes Wreck on X Road” or “Two People Killed When Struck by Speeding Driver” and then in the report itself you find out that the driver was high, driving a stolen car, and ran a red light.

Agreed.  This whole article screams “govern me harder daddy”

Instead of putting more nannies on cars, how about we enforce the rules we already have?  

We all know that, but we furthermore know that it helps to interpret things differently in reality when circumstances allow.

This is not good, the more and more we let the government force their way into our lives the worse we put ourselves. Sure maybe right now all they’re doing is enforcing the law, but what happens when they decide to just shut off your car. Sure, maybe it’s not a possible scenario now, but what about in the future? The…

Yeesus, Bradley. This article is bad, your take is bad & short sighted, and your responses to the comments seem to be the equivalent of “I know you are but what am I,” second grade playground chat. Gosh, coming to Jalopnik is like opening the fridge 100 times when you are hungry hoping that something delicious…

Speed limits in europe are also generally higher. And regular roads get the 60mph limit automatically outside of towns, at least in the UK. In my visit to spain and italy, people drove FAST but lane rules were respected to a T. 

“There isn’t any reason why you should need to exceed the posted limit on any public road.” Bullshit. There are significant portions of the country where the speed limits are ridiculously low, at least on the limited-access highways. Like all of Nassau and Suffolk County, NY, for instance (55 mph). I’m sure there are…

Wtf is this nerd shit. 

Given how ridiculously and artificially low speed limits are posted in the US, this is a terrible idea. I’m not talking about the guy going 105 mph in a city center, t-boning another vehicle and killing everyone involved. I’m talking about the average not-in-a-neighborhood-or-downtown roadway that everyone is going…

not a chance in hell this passes in Freedom loving America. and seriously - you ever been to Texas, Montana, New Mexico.... anywhere in the west? Those highways should have 110 mph speed limits. most modern cars can do that with no trouble. when its 200+ miles to the next town euro style laws stop making sense.

With respect, I disagree. We should be allowed to be as stupid as we like. Myself included. Too much safety, especially forced safety, can be a bad thing. 

Problem with some speed limits is there’s no thought sometimes on what would be appropriate. I have a 2 mile stretch in my morning commute that runs along side a small airport with a 40mph limit. Before this stretch and after this stretch that’s totally reasonable, but during it there are no intersections or turn…

This feels a bit like we are being trolled.

I’m not even an SUV type of guy and I love the Jimny! Bring one here and I’ll buy it in a heart beat.

Someone, anyone, establish a relationship with Suzuki and import Jiminy to USA and Canada.

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My mother in law only buys cars with a sunroof because she has climbed out several after accidents. She is a horrid driver.