• HomeyKrogerSage@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    This is definitely the wrong take. If the majority of people are going over the speed limit with no negative results, the speed limit is the issue

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        1 year ago

        Noise concerns is a joke. I drive a truck in Germany. In many villages and some areas of towns/cities, trucks are to drive at 30 kph instead of 50 kph at night to reduce noise levels. The joke is, when I drive at 30, the truck is in a lower gear than at 50, making more noise, passing more slowly (noise duration longer) and putting out a higher volume of CO2 for the duration.

        Cars with fart cans and motorbikes with their loud exhausts are way louder than my truck could ever be driving those roads - at any speed.

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          1 year ago

          You’re an outlier though, most vehicles going though are probably cars with smaller, more modern engines that are quieter at slower speeds.

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            1 year ago

            But it’s only trucks that have to slow down, and my truck - like most modern trucks - has an ‘L’ classification for Austria, which stands for ‘Lärmarm’ which translates to ‘Quiet’.