Think speed limits are set for safer driving? Find out what they’re really about.

I’m not a particularly fast driver (well, not unless I’m listening to NPR’s “Fresh Air” with Terry Gross), but even I wonder whether our current limits do more harm than good. I love it when videos like this shatter my intuitions about things I take as normal.

Communication

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Nature

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Culture

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