I just drove through Indy. Is anyone at all aware that the speed limit on I-70 going through downtown is 55 (in one place 50)? I habitually set my cruise control equal to the speed limit, and apparently this has the effect of royally pissing off Indiana drivers. Not a single car, truck, or semi was going slower than 65, and many had to be approaching 75. We passed two cops, one sitting on the median with his radar gun out, and nobody made the slightest move to slow down. There's apparently no need, because he didn't bother going after anyone.
Libertarians like me like to argue that speed limits are pointless, and that as long as traffic is flowing smoothly the speed at which it is doing so is immaterial. For all practical purposes, Indy was just a perfect demonstration of this. So why have a speed limit at all? Nobody in Indiana seems to care what the signs say.
Libertarians like me like to argue that speed limits are pointless, and that as long as traffic is flowing smoothly the speed at which it is doing so is immaterial. For all practical purposes, Indy was just a perfect demonstration of this. So why have a speed limit at all? Nobody in Indiana seems to care what the signs say.