I’m a firm believer of this theory. I feel so much more comfortable driving in America just keeping up with traffic around you, as you’re not constantly looking down to make sure you’re not going to lose stupid amounts of money & points for going 2km/hr over the speed limit.
I also think some of our roads are so inefficient with their low speed limits, where the road and the infrastructure around it could easily handle 10, 20, 30km/hr more, and then the opposite where some ‘residential’ roads are like 80km/hr when you’ve got houses and kids running around either side.
We do a horrible job of road management in Australia. Our road rules are horrible, or our car laws are horrible (archaic and overbearing) where a modified car whose sole purpose is to be better at handling / speed is penalised, but some shitty old camary whose breaks haven’t been changed since it was brought, running on bald tyres, with a 90yo behind the wheel can drive around without a fear in the world.
Anyways, rant over :P!
