AAA recognizes the importance of selecting appropriate and
enforceable speed limits. When maximum speed limits are
correctly set and applied, they improve mobility, motorist
safety and respect for the law. States are urged to use
engineering and traffic surveys when setting maximum speed
limits and to adopt limits that will not have a significant
adverse effect on highway safety. As a minimum, these surveys
should include: - Prevailing speeds as determined by traffic
engineering measurements. - Accident records. - Highway,
traffic, vehicle and roadside development characteristics. The
most common traffic-law violation is speeding, outnumbering all
other traffic violations combined. And how much time do you
really save by speeding – and risking a costly traffic ticket
or, worse, causing a crash? Check out the time it takes to make
a 30-mile trip at different speeds: 55 miles per hour = 32.7
minutes 65 miles per hour = 27.7 minutes (5 minutes saved) 75
miles per hour = 24 minutes (8.7 minutes saved) This math a