1. Speed limits vary a fair amount by country and jurisdiction.
2. In order to have meaningful acceleration you almost have to build a car that’s able to exceed the speed limit by a fair bit.
3. You *can* put limiters on how fast cars can go, these are either mechanical or in the cars computers. Germany does/did this – they have/had limiters that prevented cars from exceeding 155mph. A quick google indicates this was a voluntary thing the manufacturers did to avoid more restrictive legislation.
4. But…If you put limiters *at* the speed limit you can create dangerous situations during overtaking or coming onto on-ramps and so on where a merging driver could suddenly lose further power and have to slam on brakes rather than being able to complete the maneuver.
5. Someone doing 90 on the highway is normally nowhere near as dangerous as someone doing 60-70 on a regular street. You’re creating a lot of other problems while doing fairly little to reduce speed related road dangers, which are themselves a small subset of other bad driving issues (DUI, aggressive driving, inattentive driving, weaving between lanes, etc).
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