[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

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They use similar signs on the highways here in Stuttgart. I have a mixed view of them, sometimes the speed changes seem arbitrary.

There is a spot on my morning commute where they constantly drop the speed from 100 km/h (62 mph) down to 80 Km/h (49 mph). All it seems to do is cause backups, the traffic thins as we pass a major interchange with the A8 autobahn.

THe signs are only as good as the evaluations of traffic.

[Doogle]

Someone’s brother is getting the contract.....it’s easier to explain a technology that’s been around for decades than explain the multimillion dollar contract

[Daffy]

It looks like the project is already a done deal: “The project is … out for bid next month, with construction … in June and continue … through the fall of 2019.”

This was tried in St. Louis a few years ago. It didn’t work, and was yanked out and discarded.

[ConservativeMind]

I wonder how many people will get tickets for speeds that switched downward after someone passed when seeing the posted higher speed?

Leave the normal speed limit signs and put up those banner signs that can freely change words.

[Beach333]

We have these in Atlanta and they don’t work. People pay as much attention to them as they did the non-variable signs, which didn’t work very well either.

[Beagle8U]

I can see it now,...the new changeable speed-limit signs, hacked to say...speed-limit 125 per hour, and *uck you!

[N. Theknow]

Ford explains the latter like so: "Basically, we're using censors and other visual data as a way of assessing what the right speed should be at any moment.

Don't drive and cuss?

[UNGN]

Nobody cares what the speed limit signs say in Glenwood Canyon. If there is no traffic they drive 75 mph. If there is traffic, its a 25 mile parking lot and they crawl at about 5 mph.

On Weekends, everybody is going he same direction at the same time and its the only way to get there.

[from occupied ga]

Ford confirms, "the limit will be pushed up to sixty miles per hour for passenger vehicles

BFD. We have variable speed limits (max 65) here on sections of 285 (Atlanta beltway) and people drive the same as ever. They're slow when the traffic is slow, and 75 - 80 when the traffic is light.

[American in Israel]

As 90% of drivers speed this system will make the roads safer just as effectively as gun laws in Chicago.

[Zathras]

Where is the one which says “All Toyota Prius use RIGHT lane”
Most CO drivers are respectful and are good drivers.
Every once in awhile, you get someone from Boulder who wants to make a statement by driving 55 in a 70, in the passing lane.

[Publius]

These are used in Seattle and over Snoqualmie Pass.