{"id":267189,"date":"2016-09-13T05:28:18","date_gmt":"2016-09-13T05:28:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/why-pay-any-attention-to-speed-limits\/"},"modified":"2016-09-13T17:28:00","modified_gmt":"2016-09-13T17:28:00","slug":"why-pay-any-attention-to-speed-limits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/latest-news\/why-pay-any-attention-to-speed-limits\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Pay Any Attention to Speed Limits?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>What are speed limits, exactly?<\/p>\n<p>I know \u2026 a number on a sign.<\/p>\n<p><em>Exactly.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>But why pay any attention to them?<\/p>\n<p>I mean, assuming there <em>isn\u2019t<\/em> a cop around?<\/p>\n<p>They\u2019re not much use as far as advisories about the maximum safe velocity for a given road. If they were, then everyone (just about) wouldn\u2019t be driving <em>at least<\/em> that fast.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/k87jCBoljIo\" width=\"600\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Probably, they\u2019d be driving slower.<\/p>\n<p>If speed limits meant anything substantive, that is.<\/p>\n<p>Like the redline on a tachometer, for example. That is a <em>real<\/em> limit.<\/p>\n<p>Most people do not run their engines at or even near redline for more than brief moments. Because the red line <em>is<\/em> the fastest you can safely spin the engine without risking engine damage.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lewrockwell.com\/2016\/09\/eric-peters\/pay-attention-speed-limits\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What are speed limits, exactly? I know \u2026 a number on a sign. Exactly.\u00a0 But why pay any attention to them? I mean, assuming there isn\u2019t a cop around? They\u2019re not much use as far as advisories about the maximum safe velocity for a given road. If they were, then everyone (just about) wouldn\u2019t be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519,18],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-267189","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire","7":"category-latest-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=267189"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267189\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=267189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=267189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=267189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}