eli5: Why are vehicles manufactured to travel faster than the speed limit?

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Looking at most states speed limits top out at 70 mph. Some exceptions to that being Utah, Wyoming, Montana or Texas. So I understand that there are exceptions but the vast majority of roads won’t be faster than that. So why would engineers give them the ability to break the law?

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It could definitely be made this way without “top speed”pushing it to the limit. Easily could have a hard stop on speed limit. Also even in emergency, exceeding speed limit is dangerous in itself. Therefore I propose that the huge revenue stream of speeding tickets and the cops very much supported by said stream are the reason.

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