Eine Umfrage ergab, dass die Mehrheit der britischen Autofahrer die Anhebung der Geschwindigkeitsbegrenzung auf Autobahnen auf 80 Meilen pro Stunde befürwortet
Majority of UK drivers back raising motorway speed limit to 80mph, survey finds
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Sure. This has always been the case. Probably isn’t a good basis to change it mind, but most of us will support it
With the massive increase in energy needed to overcome increasing drag at higher speeds then this will be worse for EVs.
Doesn’t sound like a good idea, the roads are too crowded and there’s too many bad drivers.
don’t know how I feel about this, Ive never felt the need to drive faster than 70mph, with an 80mph limit people will absolutely chose to break the limit and hit 90+
80 is perfectly acceptable in daylight but should be 70 at night to address the nationwide problem of ultra bright headlights.
Yeah, just as soon as UK drivers learn how to _use_ the motorway.
Living in the Midlands I’d love to even reach 70 on the motorway nowadays.
I’m on the fence with this one. I’m sure nobody would personally choose to limit themselves to 70 given an option, myself included, but it’d be risky considering the quality of driving in this country appears to be on a noticeable steady decline.
Well 80 is pretty much the minimum speed for half the m40. Rest of the network it’s hardly going to be possible to get to 80 outside of nighttime hours is it
Lane discipline is too poor in the UK imo. In France they pull back in after passing and they diligently indicate for both maneuvers.
We’re not disciplined in the UK to deal with an 80mph limit.
Once people work out which fucking lane to use then we might start thinking about it.
How about we just make sure motorways can actually handle 70. Wild how in Wales I’m having to do 50 on the motorway
Us, and a few other countries like Norway and Latvia are the only ones with a speed limit of 70mph in Europe. The vast majority of countries are 75mph, 80mph or 85mph.
I’d gladly welcome and accept an increase to 80mph (or higher), but I think they need to crack down on stuff like middle lane hogging and I’d even suggest as far as forcing learner drivers on motorways like they do in Germany to force higher driving standards by enforcing better lane etiquette.
Obviously not everywhere in the UK is near a motorway, so that would create a challenge.
The link doesn’t say how the question was phrased, to get this answer. Pity.
It was only about twenty years ago that the traffic would move on the motorway at around 85mph, more in places.
No chance that this gets implemented. Regardless of how popular it is, raising the speed limit would reduce fuel efficiency and increase deaths, so there’s absolutely zero incentive for government to raise it (other than populism).
When there’s an increase in Lane Discipline and the Road Policing budget – absolutely fine.
In my experience, a very large proportion of drivers go over 70 if conditions allow. Far greater than he portion who exceed the 30 mph limit.
Rightly or wrongly, if the limit was raised and people carried on driving as they currently drive, it would make absolutely no difference.
Of course, if the limit was 80 you would probably see an increase in the number of people doing 90, which I think would be a bad thing. I could easily imagine that causing more accidents.
But I suspect many drivers would not automatically speed up. 90mph is pretty fast, most people aren’t going to feel comfortable doing that speed, even if they might routinely break the 70mph limit. Quite a lot of cars aren’t going to like that speed much either.
I’d rather see an expansion of better planned roads in housing areas.
The story that this links to has no mention of the poll.
It’s not going to happen.
Well, good thing we don’t enact laws by referendum then.
Some of the behaviour I’ve seen on motorways makes me want the limit lowered not raised
**Benefits:**
maybe an increased average speed
**Negatives:**
Increased braking distance
Increased fuel consumption
Increased kinetic energy in the event of a crash
(All disproportionately higher than the 14% speed bump)
Sure, people will support it because they want to feel faster but if the question is asked again with all these qualifiers mentioned I’d wonder what the support would be after.
Cool now bring in minimum speeds as well. People doing under 70 in the middle lane without a good reason should get points
As long as drivers are re-tested every 10 years and CBT is mandatory for all new learners (with obvious, allowable exceptions)