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In the USA there is an assumption that people speed a little in their cars all the time. So speed limits are set lower than they should be, because people will go over them. People know this, and assume that the speed limits are deliberately set too low.
This leads to nonsensical situations like where you have a road with a 35 miles per hour speed limit, and then a yellow warning sign in front of a bend in the road warning that 35 miles per hour is the maximum safe speed. Like, why is the sign necessary if that's already the speed limit?
Speed limits are also based on rainy nights.
not in Australia, we have max advisory limits for shitty conditions on sharp curves etc, on a yellow sign, independent of the "normal" speed limit