Alex Heney
Because it might demonstrate some utility for speed limits in aiding speed selection.
I don't think they help at all, but I thought you did.
Yes it is. I have contended throughout that speed limits offer no buttistance in the successful selection of appropriate speeds in many situations. The slow bend on the fast road is my favoured illustration.
All that get round the bend on their own side of the road, or only using those parts of the road they know to be clear, have succeeded.
Yes it is...
...I simply failed to describe in words of one syllable what is required to make it successfully round the bend.
Not hitting stuff is implicit in "making it".
They don't stay on the road, neither do they fail to hit stuff.
I was hoping you might explain how a speed limit might magically keep them safe, since speed limits are such a great aid to safety.
My opinion is that the posting of a speed limit in no way reduces their (near unity) accident risk.
I thought it was, what did you think?
So, what use blanket speed limits?
I still contend that any driver who rounds (in a manner which will succeed safely in the face of any reasonably foreseeable hazard) a tight bend in a(n otherwise clear) NSL road has demonstrated (some potentially limit bounded) ability to select a reasonably appropriate speed.
OK, mea culpa...
Add "except where closely buttociated with specific hazards" as appropriate...
Ummmmm, they might...
It is, pretty much...
...however:
There are several places in the thread(s in uk.rec.driving) covering the speed limit question where I've mentioned "except where closely buttociated with specific hazards" but if you're coming from uk.legal that might be news to you...
Good spraff all the same... :)
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