About the same but narrower. The point is speed limits should be strictly enforced around curves. On that thruway curve I was talking about, the speed limit should be 70 with speeding ticket by mail cameras that trigger once you exceed 73 mph.
One of the joys of driving is that I can determine my own speed through a corner through personal judgment based on vehicular characteristics, alertness, traffic, and road conditions. It's understandable if not everyone feels the same way.
But I think you have the ideas for a system which seems more like a exaggerated racetrack; everyone can just blast off to 90-120 mph on the straight parts of road and then jam on the brakes for curves and corners. That's well and good if you're the only one on the road, but no two drivers seem to brake at the same time and most everyone has to obey the speed of the vehicle in front of them, and many folks have a terrible concept of keeping distance, let alone performing natural engine braking. I thought like this before I had a license and drove on real roads with other people; too many people have their own ideas of their personal comfort level, and that's a huge reason why the average speed of most roads seem a little slower than we'd like them to be. Theoretically, this
could efficiently and safely happen with driverless technology, but I'm not holding by breath on this any time soon.
Anyhow, this is for another thread. We have at least twenty others about speed limits and roads.
