stackyFACTSSpeed limits aren't arbitrary numbers pulled from thin air; traffic engineers set them at the exact speed that eighty-five percent of drivers naturally feel comfortable driving. Setting limits artificially low actually causes more fatal crashes by creating dangerous speed differentials between law-abiding drivers and speeders.
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