I had a thought today (yes, twice in one year
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I was driving up the M3, and suddenly realised that the prevailing speed of the traffic was no less than 95mph. Yes,
95 miles per hour, or 152km/h for those who prefer their steering wheels on the wrong side of the car.
And then I realised that this was not causing any problem. People were generally keeping at a safe distance from the car in front, the traffic was free flowing and there was only one gimp who was continually tapping their brakes because they didn't know the throttle pedal has positions in between idle and loud.
So it struck me... a new way for the motor... way.
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What you do is, scrap the 70mph speed limit. Have a variable speed limit across every motorway in the country, ranging from 30 up to 100mph or even "unlimited". Install gantries or even just roadside signs, every mile, that give the speed limit at that time on that stretch. Obviously it would take some nifty programming, but you could have a SPECS camera (the "average speed" system) on every gantry to make sure that people were keeping to the speed limit.
This way, everyone will either stick within the posted limit or lose their licence. Also, where conditions prevail you would be able to drive
much faster with the benefit that other people would be expecting it. I am sure that many people here have driven down a nearly empty motorway on the exciting side of 100mph only to have someone pull out simply because they weren't expecting (and reasonably so) a car to be travelling at that speed. With this idea, people would see the 100mph signs and be expecting to see cars at this speed.
Plus it would ensure that the congestion-reducing idea of variable speed limits would actually work!
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