June 26th, 2017 at 10:22 PM
(June 25th, 2017 at 10:16 PM)pupper_donut Wrote: From a traffic engineering standpoint it's set lower to prevent people from driving an unsafe speed. Even if it's safe to go 50 in a 40 people would drive 60 or more if the limit was 50, which probably would be quite dangerous for the road in question.
That is what I like to call Darwinism at work.