Comments by "seneca983" (@seneca983) on "The Simple Genius of the Interstate Highway System" video.

  1. "no speed limits where practical" I'd think it would make sense to have some kind of speed limit, if possibly a high one, so that most vehicles would travel at roughly the same speed.
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  2.  @mjc0961  "I've been stuck behind too many cars going 10mph or more under a speed limit to know that it never works." Would such people exceed 130 km/h if there were no speed limit?
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  3. It's a minimum for the (maximum) speed limit.
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  4. Is there data on whether correlation with race was stronger than correlation with income.
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  5. I think that figure wasn't supposed to represent a record but a more typical travel time.
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  6.  @artilleryisbetter  That's extremely cheap.
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  7. @JedStrogan I don't see how it would cause congestion or grouping of vehicles. Rather it should reduce accidents due to there being less of passing other vehicles.
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  8.  @Finkelfunk  "First off no one goes the same speed on an Autobahn" I didn't claim they were doing it now. "Generally, it is recommended you stay around 120-130km/h, but that is not a definite" If the limit were 130 km/h (or maybe slightly higher) there should be less passing other vehicles and emissions per km travelled should be lower. "look at these experiments where a bunch of people are told to drive in a circle behind each other at 30km/h" Based on that description that doesn't sound anything like putting a speed limit on the autobahns that currently don't have have one (though I can't say for certain without knowing more details of those experiments).
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  9.  @dannypipewrench533  75 mph is fine in a good weather but what about if it's raining or snowing? It would seem a bit bad to require such high speed in bad weather from those who might not feel comfortable with it.
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  10. It's minimum for (maximum) speed limit.
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  11. "Because of interstates, urban sprawl spread farther resulting in less dense cities" Isn't that because of zoning policies?
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  12. He meant the speed limit (setting the maximum speed for vehicles) has to be at least that high.
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  13. "Airplanes, trains, ships, cars were just improved." That's a rather broad definition for "no change". By that definition, same is true almost everywhere. Flying cars and Hyperloop (and vactrains in general) are ill-conceived ideas.
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  14.  @varana  It seemed to me that that wasn't what he meant since he specifically used the wording "rather than the reality".
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  15. To death? US gas tax is very low.
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