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Originally Posted by Fed
There's only 4.5 Minutes difference between doing 80KPH & 100KPH over 30 Km distance, what's the rush?
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Well that 4.5 mins is 9 mins on a return journey, which is 45 mins over a 5 day working week.
Problem is this is a vast country, and distances at times far exceed your 30km quote. Some may travel 120km between destinations each day, all of a sudden your 4.5 minute quote becomes 18 mins or 36 mins on a daily return, which is 3 additional hours per week on the road!
Now, on the flip side, if the speed was 120 instead of 100, you'd shave 3 minutes from said trip, or 7.5 mins from your 80 km/h limit for a 30km trip, which is 75 mins per week less on the road for a 30km trek, or a whopping 5 hours per week less on the road! Now calculate that over the course of a year.
Time not spent on the road is time not spent on the road! Car's are safer, tyres are better, braking is better. The highway speed limit was set based on the distance it took a car in the 1970's to pull up from 70 MPH - that distance on average for a modern car is now halved, meaning limits should theoretically be increased 20 or 30 percent!
The amount of people brainwashed by our inept, broke, desperate state governments who try leach driver's of every cent they can is mind boggling.