What's the deal with motor vehicle violations?

It is going to be very interesting in the next 5 to 10 years as autonomous vehicles become first allowed and then mandatory.Presumably they will be programmed to follow the rules and not speed at all. If so we'll quickly discover that the speed limits that we use. Set to be simple and broad they are stupid.Around me are streets all at a 50 kph (30 mph) limit. For some of them in tight residential side streets that is much to high and in others it is much too low. The drivers fix this by driving at speeds that makes sense.I suspect that when we are no longer driving the cars but they are doing it there will be no need for any kind of speed limits at all. The cars will know what is efficient and safe for each circumstance.

Not standard, mandatory! As autonomous vehicles roll out most of the world will see reduction in injuries and deaths of 90 or so %. Except in the US.In the US drivers won't give up their god given right to drive and kill people.(remember you read it here first)

I've read about this before. And driven (way to fast) in Montana and Utah (which have an 80 mph limit in many places).It isn't just the speed limit that keeps driver's speeds down. People seem to decide that "this is fast enough" and drive at the speed they like. Even I settle into a cruise that isn't all that fast considering the car has a 255 kph limit in the computer and is rock solid at well over 200 kph. (I haven't tried to push the limit on this one (yet) )What I found was that the traffic was moving at a little over the 80 mph and there were few going slower than the surrounding traffic and very few going significantly faster. I've read that this is not because of the legal limits but because of what people are comfortable with.In Montana, as I recall, this was just around the 80 mph and up the middle of Utah (on 3 occasions through there) it was around 90 mph. The lighter traffic and very wide highway in Utah may account for that.In some circumstances it is possible that traffic moving at a more uniform speed even if a little higher nets out to safer than traffic with 20 or so mph difference in speeds.

Everyone rolls their eyes at Sheldon