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The roads that are "safety corridors", at least the ones in California, are rural two-lane, two-way undivided roads where people kill themselves trying to overtake cars that are going 1 MPH slower than them. The only way to redesign these is with K rails down the middle, but the ideal thing to do is mandate speed limiters in cars.


I would expect speed limiters to make overtaking more deadly.


The point is to stop idiots from overtaking.


But it won't do that.

Sure, it'll probably reduce the number of overtakes. While making the ones that happen so much worse.


If they're so much worse that the overtakee is frequently fatally involved the problem will eventually mostly solve itself in a perverse way...




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