Roads Which Taught You How To Drive

[kphoger]

Returning to the road test, pretty much everyone at my high school knew what the test route was at the DMV where I took the test. They took you through a trailer park with a 15-mph speed limit to see whether you'd speed. I downshifted into first gear (used my mom's car with an automatic shift) so the engine would help me keep my speed down.

A trailer park, huh?  Did that 15mph speed limit sign even have the force of law behind it?  I don't suppose the instructor would have been impressed by your assertion that you're legally allowed to ignore it, though...

Why would the limit be illegal?

If it was on private property, erected by said private property, then it's powerless.

[1995hoo]

Returning to the road test, pretty much everyone at my high school knew what the test route was at the DMV where I took the test. They took you through a trailer park with a 15-mph speed limit to see whether you'd speed. I downshifted into first gear (used my mom's car with an automatic shift) so the engine would help me keep my speed down.

A trailer park, huh?  Did that 15mph speed limit sign even have the force of law behind it?  I don't suppose the instructor would have been impressed by your assertion that you're legally allowed to ignore it, though...

Why would the limit be illegal?

If it was on private property, erected by said private property, then it's powerless.

However–as we both acknowledged earlier–put yourself in the place of the high-school kid on his 16th birthday who is very eager to get his driver's license and consider whether you would make an issue of such things.