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Originally Posted by Teh_Bandwagoner
Kinda OT, but I don't like this analogy. Speed limit isn't quite that arbitrary. Roads are designed to be driven at a certain speed for certain conditions, but safety factors they use in determining those design standards are kind of arbitrary, but are actually backed with hard scientific numbers.
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What makes speed limits arbitrary is that they are so far below the design speeds. You could design a road for 200 km/h but it would still have a 110 km/h speed limit because that's the highest allowed in Canada.