alt Hacker NewsIn some places, that's how speed limits are fixed.
In Texas, for example, they do a traffic study and set the limit to the 85th percentile speed.
https://www.txdot.gov/safety/driving-laws/speed-limits/speed...
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Karrot_Kream • yesterday at 6:49 PM
This link claims this is for highways. Does TxDOT have a wider criteria for "highway" than the standard FHWA criteria? Under FHWA I would presume that school roads would be found on local or collector roads, not highways, but I'm not familiar with the streets mix nor the grant landscape of Texas cities.
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panick21_ • yesterday at 7:39 PM
Lets not take advice about anything in regards to road safety from the US, or specially Texas.
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Doesn't that just cause speeds to creep up as people think it's okay to go a little over the limit?