Multiple states are considering a jump in speed limits. In North Carolina, some interstates could soon go from a 70 mph limit to 75 mph. Some safety advocates are warning that raising the limit could cause an increase in fatal crashes. NBC News’ Jesse Kirsch reports.
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#Driving #SpeedLimit #NorthCarolina
Jesus is coming back soon be really life is short time is short Jesus is eternal life forever
What does Jesus drive?
Not gonna happen a long time ago when tdr was president when they were building the interstate there was a clause that said if they increased speed limits they’ll lose funding. It’s an OLLLLDDDDD LAW that needs to be off the books.
The real problem is the morons driving 15 below the speed limit in the left lane, they should be to ticketed and taken off the road
Try teaching people how to drive first.
46,000 Americans die brutal gory deaths a year and there’s more and more trucks and semis on the roads
Texas is 75 but everyone drives 90 so we should make it 85 so our speeding tickets arnt too high
I remember being on a two lane highway in eastern Wyoming and it was 80 mph. That was awesome. Here in Illinois it’s 55 mph on two lanes.
As it should be, because cars cannot absorb frontal collisions beyond 50mph. The technology to make the crash impact structures absorb such crashes safely, without too much weight, expense, and bulk for a car to be practical simply does not exist.
Autobahn has a lower fatality rate per billion kilometers traveled than many other highway systems, including those in the United States.
Please say Washington!
They’re gonna speed anyway. Make it 75 and they will go 98
Courtesy of the auto industry lobby. This is a dumb idea
Should bee 65
People in the U.S. mistake simply operating a car with knowledge on how to drive or fully control a car… despite the fact that most U.S. roads are straight. You get stupidity and in effect, wealthy insurance companies.
Title has scope for improvement 😂
Maybe they could use some of our tax dollars to fix the roads first.
What’s so hard for North Dakota to bump their speed limits a little higher to 80mph? They already have 75mph speed limits statewide on two Interstates, and most importantly, they’re very straight and fairly empty.
Minimum 70 maximum 80
LoL 😂
Lot of people are already driving 75 – 80 mph
The real problem is it will cut down on revenue from traffic tickets
It’s dangerous and it wastes more fuel.
Why stop there? Allow driver to speeding at school zone or near school bus. Even better, increase DUI test allowed limit
Oh quiet! Many people are going over 75 mph now rofl lmao
kinda like they want people to crash
About time. Speed limits are from the 1950’s.
Watch fines triple though. Gotta keep that revenue flowing 🤡🤡
Let’s ask all the old people. Great
In Nevada its 85 and you don’t here or crashes everyday do you. No it’s one of the safest places to drive
I think speeding ticket fines should be raised if they want to stop speeding. Instead of about $500 what about $1000 per 1 mile over?
Imagine having to drive at 55 for a thousand miles an 😭
Most people drive 80+ on the freeways in NC. Cops don’t stop anyone going 10 over unless they really want to issue a ticket.
I read in a history books that at one point speed limits were put in place to conserve oil
It’s a safety issue, not fuel conservation.
If they have any tangents about increased speed limits review Germany’s Autobahn. That and assessing the elderly annually. When I get that old and if I have Alzheimers I don’t want to be behind the wheel. Seen too many pulled outa the water with their vehicles.
😂 if governments were smart, they should be lowering the limits. That way they could generate more revenue from traffic tickets. But they’re not.
Speed limits should be equal to the design speed of the road. If the road is designed for 30, sign it for 30.
That whole “square of the speed” (velocity) thing might not be intuitive, but it is important!
Umm… I don’t mind the speed limit but is there a way where we could make a lane where you can ONLY pass over the car in front of you and you can’t drive trough it JUST over take the car in front of you cause some people doesn’t know how to give way and they drive below the speed limit cause it’s either they’re old or high or texting or being a B*tch.
This is great, more dashcam content…
Speed limits are set according to how much a car can absorb impacts on highways. These neanderthals making policies will put everyones lives at risk, and it’s already killing more than a million people worldwide every year to begin with.
Then why not make the speed limit 3 mph to save even more lives (sarcasm). Btw it’s 25mph speed limit here in NYC
Putting aside the increased risk of accidents. Running automobiles at higher and higher speeds will probably lead to them wearing out faster + will burn a lot more gas of course + and will be harder on the roads – roads already in poor repair in many areas.
In Europe as an example there are no speeds on the autobahn and thus many cars will drive fast. It however is not simply a free for all as most drivers understanding the risk still tend to not drive at excessive speeds for which they may be uncomfortable. Yet at the same time the German government meticulously maintains the roads so as to facilitate driving faster safely. You will not find “so-so” condition roads in Germany such as are ubiquitous in the US.
The US has a gas tax which is “supposed” to be spent on road maintenance. What you actually see however more often than not is that a few main roads are maintained = as the rest fall into ruin – and the money is spent on general revenues………. So you can raise the speed limits but the conditions of the roads – and even the poor condition of many cars on the road – will result in people being compelled to drive slower in places regardless. 🤨
Nobody is going to care. Just tells drivers they can go faster as stated. I try to go the speed limit (55mph) and people get a little irate.
If you arent doing 80 already you are being passed,and I rarely ever see the cops out writing tickets anymore.
yay! faster drunk drivers!
it’s better just to leave for you destination earlier lol
Speed limits don’t mean a thing unless they are enforced.
Let’s go to 100
If people kept up tire maintenance we could. However, most don’t keep up on that. A blown tire at high speed is extremely dangerous.
How about increasing left passing lane to 80mph and fining those who hog it and go below that $500? The rest can be 70mph.
People drive 80 to 90 mph already on the interstates. See it every day.
todays car just get damaged going slow everyday… increase best, more accidents? smartest survive, dumn drivers die…self cleaning roads from idiots
It’s okay people always go over the limit.
has there ever been a worse invention than motor vehicles / driving? i suppose money. and of course human beings, but nothing else
I mean, I think they should just leave the speed limit at is and just let the people driver at the speed they’re driving right now when they increase of people will he driving faster like for me on New York i dive about 75 mph on a 55 mph Parkway because a lot of drivers are pretty much driving at 70 or 75 mph only people who have discipline can drive that speed in my opinion and not get distracted that’s way over in Europe they have the Autobahn and we don’t have nothing like that.
That tow truck driver knows he is out there trying to get near a crash first, then in turn passing us all on highways all the time.
If the speed limit is 70, I’m going 80. If it’s 80, I’m going 80
Notice it’s all the old people that are gripping. They don’t need speed limits just better cops
Ok who is going the speed limit right now😅
75-85 here in Oklahoma and the crashes have slowed exponentially. People don’t realize going under the speed limit is just as dangerous as going over.
Mean while the average EV weighs almost 5000lbs and the SUV/Trucks are pushing 9000lbs. They are already seeing significant damage caused by heavy EVs hitting smaller economic vehicles. It’s no secret the bigger you are the harder you fall. No need to increase speed limit when the police can’t even properly enforce the limits we have now. The justice system has enabled bad drivers and illegals to take over the roads.
I could understand if the roads are all curvy, but these are straight highways. Raise the limits.
You have to take ego out of driving!!
Please do.
Ohio have better roads and multiple lanes but speed limit is less than 60 or less! It’s subways frustrating when you come from Michigan or surrounding states 😂😂
Everyone goes 10-20 over here in Florida
Speed limits aren’t the problem, it’s all in driver training. Look at Germany and the Autobahn as an example, they have 0 limits on speed, however, their crash rate is a fraction of a percentage of ours even when you take into account the population and travel distance differences.
Stop being selfish on the road, stay off your phone, and get out of the passing lanes if you are not ACTIVELY passing, no one cares you are doing the speed limit, just move.
85 in Texas and y’all out of state plates still drive in the slow lane
5 mph can be the difference of being late for work or on time -_____-
Speed kills. Plus the extra gas or kWh consumed… think about it
seems dumb,limits are already high enough.
it’s an endless loop,every time you raise the limit the speeders just
drive faster,raise the limit again and they speed up again,etc,etc,etc,,,,,,,,,,,
Cars are much safer and stable than they used to be. The autobahn has got it right
If these people had any more power we wouldn’t be allowed to drive faster than 30mph. Cars are much safer now and have better brakes.
What’s the point having vehicles that can go 0-60 in 3 seconds if the speed limit is 65🤷🏿♂️
The one thing good about defunding the police where I’m from is there isn’t anymore speed traps or getting pulled over for a blinking license plate light etc.
Here in California people generally go 80+ on highway even though the speed limit is 65 lol
If you aren’t allowed to drive 150 MPH why do they make cars that go that fast?
People don’t know how to drive alr💀
Its a revenue generator, why would they increase speed limits?
No. This will cause people to drive faster and our limits are already faster than what cars can absorb safely, which is not more than about 50mph.
It’s crazy how fast people are going despite all increased fatalities…that’s sad. But to be fair, getting out of North Dakota as fast as possible is a very good argument/idea.
I feel like speed limits are a government overreach of authority. It should not be a governmental decision in the first place how fast citizens should be allowed to drive in the first place.
I’m 100% for this in fact I’d do one better and do a 10mph increase. 55 would be 65. 70 would be 80. Everyone else is already doing 5-10 over already so… no big deal.
EVERYONE IS SPEEDING ON INTERSTATE ALREADY
RAISE IT AND ENFORCE IT 100%
There’s some roads limiting 25mph when it’s full empty and no traffic lights
Americans don’t want higher speed limits because it’s unsafe, but they continue to purchase bigger and bigger -cars- trucks (consequently designed to not be stable at high speeds) because they’re “safer”.
Lower the speed limits, don’t increase them!
Never could understand how a supposedly Christian country has so many lawbreakers when it comes to obeying the speed limit laws.
Why not make it dependent on the capabilities of the vehicles and drivers? To go certain speeds require a high speed license endorsement and car with safe speed ratings.
The problem with the speed limits is that in certain areas people drive, 65 miles an hour when others or everyone is going 80 miles an hour so when people are going way under the speed limit and that’s when you have the majority of the crashes if you have a speed limit that it’s a bit faster it’s more likely that everyone will go by by that one not by going 65 miles an hour 65 miles an hour doesn’t get you anywhere
places where I live have 85mph speed limits
There would be no need for higher speed limits if people would stay to the RIGHT!!!
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I remember getting an warning for going 62mph in my big rig in Ohio in 2003, at the time the speed limit for big rigs there was 55mph and the speed limit for cars 65mph.
Everyone drives about 5mph above the speed limit so I think that 55, as in 60, should be the standard.
My old 98 corolla that had previously been in an accident and totaled before I bought it, would shake like a homping ho over 55mph and we’d go at 70 in some parts of the interstate where the limit was 65. This was in NC also.
Now it’s 55 but people drive always above 60 , if it’s gonna be 60 people go even higher 70+
sounds crazy but politicians do nothing after the countless mass shootings but all of a sudden care about peoples lives when the speed limit increases
It’s not like anyone drives the limit anyways.
just take a train they go faster
The real problem is that no one drives the speed limit and the police across the USA don’t ticket until someone drives 10mph over the limit. WHY?
Just being in Germany, I find this to be quite funny. Especially how in Germany they want to only implement speed limits due to the pollution effects
I95 in south Florida is 100+
Why not have ability for the phone to disable while inside the car? We should be not using it unless it’s 911.’period
People have done studies, most people have max normally around 80mph. So even if you raise the speed limit to 80 they may not go any faster.
A few might just to play games.
I live on a 2 lane with a 60mph limit… If someone is going 60, there’s a pile of cars behind them because hardly anyone goes 60. It’s a subconscious thing “oh, 60mph limit, add 5mph before the cops even start to care so it’s actually 65 I can go”.
I’m definitely guilty of this thought process.
It’s 55 on the inner loop in my city and people do 80-90. police don’t really pull them over unless they’re doing something dangerous like weaving through the right lanes.
Also the reason why people are complaining about the safety issue here in america is because me and many others are aware that it is way to easy to get your drivers license here. No actual training required, It’s just can you read and remember the signs, while knowing what to do at those signs and lights. They don’t even care if you know anything about defensive driving or how to recover from a spin. Don’t even mention how to check your vehicle to make sure it’s safe to drive every day. just yup you drove around this block and passed the written test. Here’s your license……….