Comments by "" (@steemlenn8797) on "The Lifesaving Tech Drivers Hate" video.

  1. A lot of Germans would disagree. I don't have problems with them, I never got shot, maybe because I just don't drive above speed limits. Though I have seen temporary police speed checks where it's clearly the infrastructure's fault for (slight) speeding and I don't approve of that. One was where you had to drive uphill through slight curves, so you pressed more on the pedal. After that it's sloghly downhill in a straight line. If you don't drive that daily, you invariably end up a bit too fast. And naturally you would go off the gas and just coast... and that is where they were standing. It was not even a dangerous area, except right at the start there weren't even houses on one side, so practically nobody crossing the street. I drove that daily for 3 years and saw probably 5 people crossing. In that place, getting ticked for driving 56km/h instead of the allowed 50 km/h does feel like pure money making.
    3
  2. I never thought about speed limiting on bikes is about others (well, not as main reason, it's just a secondary effect) but as a protection for the rider themself. As with cars above ~50mph, the risk for bike riders for serious or even deadly injury in an accident is dramatically increasing at ~20mph. You know, all that pesky "speed aquared" fromy physics and upper limits of how much our bodies can take. That is the reason for the 25km/h limit here in Europe. I don't think it's pure coincidence that self-injury seems to be less of a topic in the states. Just another example of "if I want to do X to myself, I have the f** right to do it! Except when smoking grass."
    1