I think it has likely been downvoted by people from countries that do not speed.<p>I have only ever seen Americans and Canadians talking about the necessity to speed to keep up with the flow of traffic (and they have a higher rate of fatal RTAs per 100,000 than most Western European countries – <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;List_of_countries_by_traffic-related_death_rate" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;List_of_countries_by_traffic-r...</a> – Canada is close to Italy, a country that is well known in Western Europe for terrifying traffic, while America is closer to South American countries)<p>While driving too slow is as dangerous as driving too fast, it&#x27;s not as dangerous as the Solomon curve suggests, according to the article you linked:<p>&gt; Reporting on these results in 1971, academics West and Dunn confirmed the findings of Solomon and Cirillo,[11] but found that crashes involving turning vehicles accounted for 44 percent of all crashes observed in the study and that excluding these crashes from the analysis greatly attenuated the factors that created the U-shape of the Solomon curve.<p>The topic of this conversation also seems to oddly mirror the course of the story from the original article. Minor acts of breaking a just law, justified on an individual basis, lead to a society in which regularly breaking that law is accepted – and indeed enforced – by the state.<p>That is probably why people are downvoting your parent comment.<p>For the record I don&#x27;t have the ability or the desire to have the ability to downvote.