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  I'll respectfully disagree on the 15-over part of your take but am cool with everything else.  There wouldn't be a problem in the first place if nobody did 15 over.  If they're on the way to the hospital with a real emergency, that's fine.
context: I don't understand why I80 through most of Nebraska can't be an American Autobahn. The limits are pretty high anyway, and the road almost never bends. >
  
  so glad someone brought up nebraska lol >
  
  Drove that route for the first time in 2021. Just so boring with a relatively low speed limit.  I thought I'd never get through Nebraska and Iowa. >
  
  yep. and cops are always there. not always, but just as you get comfy there’s a cop. >
  
  Don’t you guys use waze? In Romania, at least, people always report the radars, so it’s quite hard for them to catch anyone speeding >
  
  I know what waze is, but never used it. Sounds kind of dangerous though. You report cop cars while you’re driving? >
  
  I mean, there are 3 buttons to press and if you’re not alone in the car the passenger can do it easily. It works with car play too! And to answer your question, yes, you do it while driving, cause the marker is being placed in the place where you reported the cops >
  
  Alright I went to school for civil engineering and I’ve done road design, let me just break it down for you:
  There are multiple types of “speed” when it comes to designing roads.  You have operating speed and design speed to name the two major ones.  The operating speed is the expected speed drivers will travel at, and the design speed is the speed the road is designed for (design speed affects road curvature, the higher the design speed, the larger the radius of a curve on a road). So if there’s a road with a 25mph speed limit and people generally travel 35 mph on the road, the design speed is 25 and the operating speed is 35.
  What this means is engineers factor in a speed higher than the posted speed limit to the design of the road, so they’re actually not meant to be traveled right at the speed limit.  The problem with this is design philosophies have changed a lot over the years.  So there are some local arterial roads and others based on an older design system that does not factor in operating speed. If you’ve ever been on a very wide laned road with clear sight lines and only a posted 25mph speed limit, it’s either a school zone/high pedestrian traffic area or it was designed many years ago and hasn’t been “updated” to the modern era.  Roads with low speed limits should be narrow and restrictive, forcing drivers to slow down to the speed limit.  But that’s not the case, many of our low speed limit roads are very wide and encourage speeding, so it’s not the fault of the driver necessarily for naturally picking up speed.  If you’ve ever heard of a road where cops sit to give out speeding tickets or ever asked yourself “man why is the speed limit on this road only 25” it’s because the road was built to encourage faster speeds indirectly based on older design principles. >
  
  Thank you for your insight.  The fact that engineers must mentally wrestle with what's actually physically safe versus the mindset of us human beings is what brings me here, the human side of this.  I believe there are vastly too many aggressive drivers and I'd love to see something done about it.  That would take place for decades in schools and therapy rooms more so than on your drafting table.  Thank you for what you do. >
  
  There are people that will shoot at your car if you cut them off. Idk what you can even do to stop aggressive drivers other than adding public transit >
  
  For my whole life I've believed it's essential and worthwhile to spend what it takes to solve mental health problems on a societal level.  Overly aggressive driving is a symptom.  The real discussion is how do we better create and sustain human minds as a whole?  I don't believe a laissez-faire attitude is the way to go. >
  
  Can you explain what you consider “overly aggressive”? >
  
  Driving 57 in a 55 zone? >
  
  Honestly, that's how I'm seeing OP through many of their replies. They literally look like the person doing 51 in a 55 with 10 cars right on their butt. Probably doesn't realize anyone "speeding past them aggressively" are just trying to get away from the obvious hazard on the road with a sense of entitlement. ... THEM. >
  
  It’s garbage that people don’t do the speed limit at least >
  
  This is definitely unpopular since almost everyone has likely drove past the speed limit before. >
  
  Not only that, but they think it's their right to almost always do so (culturally, not legally of course).  I'm the villain for stating the obvious. >
  
  It’s not safer lol. Studies showed slow drivers cause more accidents or something like that >
  
  I consider this a part of the discussion, and thank you for the civility.  From my point of view, the speed limit is not slow!  The fact that speed limit drivers are often accused of being "the problem" while speeders get upset that they have to change lanes and sometimes have to slow down from their speed is what's so frustrating and why I am here in "unpopular opinions" with this take. >
  
  Yeah, I don’t have issues with someone driving the limit, I also don’t have issues with someone driving 10-15 above the limit. I do have issues with drivers driving below, imo they cause more accidents because it frustrates people behind them and forces them to switch lanes which leads to accidents. People who are racing on the highway can go to hell