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Speed limits in California are mandated by statute to be set: (1) at or below the 85th percentile operating speed; [24] [25] as determined by a traffic and engineering survey [26] —this is the speed that no more than 15% of traffic exceeds; or (2) the prima facie limits mandated when certain criteria are met as described in the vehicle code ...
When children are considered present, California law states the drivers must follow the posted school zone speed limit. Any driver caught going faster than that speed limit could be issued a ...
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As of May 15, 2017, 41 states have maximum speed limits of 70 mph (113 km/h) or higher. 18 of those states have 75 miles per hour (121 km/h) speed limits or higher, while 7 states of that same portion have 80 mph (129 km/h) speed limits, with Texas even having an 85 miles per hour (137 km/h) speed limit on one of its toll roads.
The Revised Code of Washington has a set of default speed limits for various types of roads. Rules of the Road: 25 mph is too fast. Is there a lower speed limit for residential alleys?
A new bill in the California Senate would require vehicles sold in the state to be equipped with speed governors to limit how fast they can go.
The technology, known as intelligent speed assistance, uses GPS technology to compare a vehicle's speed with a dataset of posted speed limits. Once the car is at least 10 mph (16 kph) over the speed limit, the system would emit “a brief, one-time visual and audio signal to alert the driver.”
It was one of the first urban freeways to receive a 65 MPH speed limit in 1996. The freeway was constructed with a 46-to-50-foot (14–15 m) wide center median. Initially, no barrier of any kind was installed in the median because, at the time, Caltrans regulations stated that any median wider than 45 feet (14 m) did not require a median ...