Wikipedia has a world map for this:
Link: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:World_Speed_Limits.svg
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Thankfully in metric so we non Americans can understand what the mph values mean.
Of all the conversions km to mph is the easiest at 60%
I hate this color scale. So hard to read
It's ROYGBIV, so it at least makes some amount of sense. But yeah, not as intuitive as just a gradient of one or two colors.
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On the east coast, driving 10-15 miles over the speed limit is considered normal. Some people from other parts of the country have informed me this isn't true everywhere.
On most Texas roads, it's expected. Yes, even on the 85 mph ones.
I've found 5 over to be much more common in Texas, with the occasional person going faster in light traffic
+10% over is the threshold for speeding tickets in most parts of Texas
The more unpopulated land a state has, the higher the speed limit, makes sense.
Or Alaska
If you're doing 80 on ice and snow you aren't in a car π€£
I thought Montana didn't have a speed limit? Like a Rocky Mountain Autobahn.
I believe that was just for a few years they had roads without limits. My understanding is it didn't last too long.
It's 85 mph in Texas so that the smarter people growing up there can then exit the state as quickly as possible.
Color scale should be inverted
Everyone drives like 85-90mph in California
Now do traffic accidents per mile driven per state!
Found it. Well, it's fatalities instead of accidents, but I imagine it's similar enough.
There doesn't appear to be any relationship.
The more depressing it is to live in a state the more vehicle fatalities there are.
I just meant the two maps don't seem to correlate much.
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If you consider Pennsylvania, West Virginia, and Kentucky south of the Mason Dixon line there is a strong trend here
Not to the OP, but the red states are all Republican. (Or almost all, I think)
I'm slightly surprised Vermont is medium considering we hardly have anyone out here but at the same time the few people here are typically oblivious drivers and we are practically a giant mountain range
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I was suspicious, so I looked it up. 40 miles of one road in tx is 85mph.
"What this translates to in reality is an average interstate speed limit of 75 mph in both rural and urban areas (though some segments within city limits are 70 mph).
There are several segments of I-10 and I-20 through the state that have max speed limits of 80 mph.
Then, thereβs Texasβs claim to speed limit fame β the single stretch of freeway in the country with a speed limit of 85 mph.
It is located on Texasβs State Highway 130 (a toll road) and stretches just over 40 miles from Austin to near San Antonio." https://www.drivinggeeks.com/texas-speed-limits/
I've driven the entirety of that road one time. It ran me about twenty bucks in tolls. To do it once was worth it. With an 85 limit, most were pushing a hundred. I got down to San Antonio in a fraction of the time it would've taken via 35. I certainly wouldn't want to pay that on a daily commute though. I also don't think I'd want to navigate the speeds some of the more aggressive drivers were going. I did feel a little bit unsafe.
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Fun fact, that's the road Tesla's giga factory is built on. Coincidentally, FSD's max speed is 5 mph higher than that road's speed limit.
Driving through Texas is awesome because of the speed limit, but this chart is not accurate. There are several other states with 85 mph speed limits out in no-man's-land.
As a varmoner I'm surprised our max wasn't 60 we typically get as high as 40 and only the interstate gets to 60 and it's 50 as you go through the Burlington area
I can assure you, that while it says 70-75 on the signs in Cali, the speed is generally 80-95 lest one would obstruct traffic. Generally speaking, obstruction of traffic (driving too slow compared to the speed of surrounding motorists in this context) is much more against the law than going slightly over under most circumstances.
You're not going to get a ticket for going the speed limit
I have family in the CHP who have confirmed that dickheaded officers absolutely can and will do that as you are an obstruction to traffic if going too much slower than surrounding traffic.
They had some nasty things to say about people like that, but it happens
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Iβm not sure this is accurate; Iβm pretty sure I-87 through the Adirondacks in New York has a speed limit of 70. I-81 north of Syracuse might also.
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In Montana the 'limit' is actually the speed minimum
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