Wikipedia has a world map for this:
Link: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:World_Speed_Limits.svg
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.
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%
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 🤣
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.
Not to the OP, but the red states are all Republican. (Or almost all, I think)
Very cool, thanks :D
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
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.
I’m not sure this is accurate; I’m pretty sure I-87 through the Adirondacks in New York has a speed limit of 70. I-81 north of Syracuse might also.
I can confirm for you that I-81 is only 65 but you can drive 75 without having to worry about getting pulled over.
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.
In Montana the 'limit' is actually the speed minimum
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, there’s Texas’s claim to speed limit fame – the single stretch of freeway in the country with a speed limit of 85 mph.
It is located on Texas’s 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.
Ngl, I’m one of the ones that usually tends to do 100 when I come back from Austin.
I was close to it but there were still people weaving and going faster. That's a major league fuckup if you make a mistake.
Everyone drives like 85-90mph in California
I'll be real, I really like the 55mph county highways compared to the 65mph interstate. At 55mph you're closer to the sweet spot for fuel efficiency (for most vehicles around 45mph is the most fuel efficient speed) so you get noticably better gas milage. The 70mph interstates are generally a bit scary because going 75-80 to keep up with traffic just feels too fast and I can feel how much harder it is to control my vehicle compared to going less than 70, plus the engine works noticably harder against the wind to maintain speed.
I also witnessed a crash where a vehicle was going 80ish in a 55 zone on a beltline. They lost control while passing a vehicle, hit the barrier then careened accross three lanes of traffic pinning another vehicle against the opposite barrier. Nobody died and it appeared everyone was largely uninjured (thanks modern crash safety standards!) but the woman in the pinned vehicle was trapped. Point is, going slower they would not have lost control, or if they did they would not have crashed as badly doing so
The 70mph interstates are generally a bit scary because going 75-80 to keep up with traffic just feels too fast and I can feel how much harder it is to control my vehicle compared to going less than 70, plus the engine works noticably harder against the wind to maintain speed.
This very much depends on your vehicle.
I also witnessed a crash where a vehicle was going 80ish in a 55 zone on a beltline
Going 25+ over the speed limit on a road not designed for it is completely different than going 80 on a highway/interstate designed and built for that speed.
Fuel efficiencies aside it doesn't sound like you have a whole lot of confidence and/or experience behind the wheel (or you have a really really shitty car, your car should be able to handle 70-80 with ease), you should work on that.
You are scared to drive 70 mph? It sounds like you need more training and/or experience driving.
I mean, that's a velocity you can easily die at. I don't feel like that's an unreasonable emotion...
If you aren't comfortable driving at highway speeds then you should stay off the highway until you obtain the training and/or experience to feel confident. It's a rather mundane activity for most people.
Oh I'm fully capable of doing it. I've handled a 100 mile each direction super commute before and I'm currently considering supercommuting again because my grandmother needs some help with day to day tasks and lives a bit away from me. But what I can do vs what I like to do are 2 very different things, and I'm simply voicing that I do not like high speed limits on roads.
The fact is the severity of a crash increases exponentially with speed (and your margin for error as a driver decreases similarly) and humans aren't great at driving cars, so as a human who generally wants to continue living, that's the fear in the back of my head on those high speed bits of highway where some drivers are very insistant on going far beyond the posted speed limit.
Oh and lowering speed limits is good for gas milage and therefore better for emissions. So there plenty of societal good to come from lowering speed limits in general
Color scale should be inverted
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.
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.
The scalr is wrong. Yellow should be lower.
In Atlanta, I've never seen anyone go 70. It's either 90mph or 10 mph.
Who chopped the head off Maine?
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
Of course the least responsible is Texas.
They just have long, open roads. Also, the 80mph is only during the day, it goes down for night driving. Honestly, those stretches of interstate are nice to drive on.
Ok, so theres ONE reason to live in Florida.
To get out?
Im Australian and briefly confused Florida and Texas.
No surprise that the Yeehaw state lets you go 85.
Just post something 💛
