On 2006-10-24, David Hansen wrote:
On Tue, 24 Oct 2006 15:55:27 +0100 someone who may be Alistair J
Murray wrote this:-

There is no connection between posted limits and appropriate speeds.

Every day the police and others have to deal with people who have
worked out an "appropriate speed" and then crashed.

Note also that a speed limit is a maximum speed, not a target speed
or a minimum speed. Believe it or not motor vehicles have controls
that allow the operator to proceed at a lower speed than the limit
as well.

Precisely. The appropriate speed bears no relation to the speed limit.
It may be higher, or lower, than the posted limit.

You seemed to spectacularly miss the point there...

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David Taylor