Posts Tagged ‘speed limiters’

Crazy proposal to raise speed limits above speed limiter settings

Friday, April 2nd, 2010

As a bizarre consequence of the failure to switch to metric speed limits, the Department for Transport (DfT) is proposing to raise the motorway speed limit of coaches and buses from 60 mph (96.6 km/h) to 65 mph (104.6 km/h). That’s 4.6 % faster than the 100 km/h maximum speed that their speed limiters allow.

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