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> The reason speed limits exist at all is because we don't want people who are not physically capable of driving at that speed to try

Is that the reason we have speed limits?

I've always thought it's more like we don't want to deal with the consequences of something going wrong when there is too much energy involved. i.e. blow a tire, or hit a patch of gravel at 60mph and see what happens. Now try it at 160mph.




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