Example: Traffic Speed. Everyone always exceed the speed limit on highways. Why do we still have the limit? Like, either enforce it, or remove it. This stuff doesn’t make sense at all.

  • Kanzar@sh.itjust.works
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    1 year ago

    This sounds like a distinctly cultural problem where the word ‘limit’ clearly doesn’t mean very much to the population in question.

    It’s a limit, not a target, and certainly not a floor as some USAsians seem to treat it.

    Here in Australia you can be fined for exceeding the limit by less than 10km/h. Yes, even if you are 1km/h over, and whilst this would probably get thrown out in court you’d still have to take time off to attend court.

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      1 year ago

      It’s a limit, not a target, and certainly not a floor

      It depends what it is. In some nations limits are reasonable and therefore obeyed while in others they are way too low and therefore commonly ignored.

      Too strict laws like this lead to people disregarding it. Even worse, it may even lead to other sections of the same subject law being disregarded, because if it is commonly acknowledged that one section of specific law is ridiculous, why not the others.

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      Here we have a blanket 3km/h tolerance so they measure you, take 3km/h off and then use that to see which bracket of speeding you fall into (10, 20, etc).