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Originally Posted by westopher
One thing I'm not surprised about. Notice the vehicle the girls were driving. An older most likely poorly maintained jeep cherokee. I've never been in a vehicle that I have felt less safe in than a mid/early 90s JGC. Terrible handling vehicles do not fare well on winding frost covered roads. As much as the selfish man in me wants the speed limits raised, we need to account for how many shitboxes are travelling this road, and realize people don't understand discretion for road conditions and their vehicles capabilities.
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I think there are many highways in just BC alone that would greatly benefit from having those electronic speed limit signs. If it's 2pm on a sunny August afternoon, jack the speed limit to the maximum allowable. However, if it's 4am on a snowy January morning and there's the possibility of black ice under a fresh layer of snow, simply lower the limit to something like 60km/hr.
The issue is that there will always be people who see the speed limit as something to achieve, regardless of the prevailing weather conditions. I tend to drive my vehicles probably 85-90% of what I think is their limit during poor weather, and I'm still passed by other cars that are obviously not suited for the situation they're in. Usually, I come across these vehicles at a later point and they're almost always in a ditch or half stuck in a snow embankment.