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Originally Posted by darklord700
Amen. Most speed limits were set when cars were powered by 100hp engines.
Now an average cars could easily have 200hp engine or up.
This is a good video on why the Vancouver Marine drive speed limit is set at an artificially low 50km.
"Speed kills your pocketbook"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2BKdbxX1pDw |
It isn't even the horsepower going up, the old cars had terrible handling and brakes and drove on bias tires. Driving a modern car and thinking back to one of my first cars (a 59 Chev), I can't believe the difference. In those days the speed limit was 70MPH on most BC highways and now it's 55 or 60 MPH (90 or 100 K).