Car insurance rates are surging as Americans struggle to pay for basic necessities and ongoing debt.
The newest Consumer Price Index shows car insurance spiked 20 percent year over year. The surge in pricing occurred after years of gradual price inflation, with earlier reports finding the rates grew by 36 percent since 2020.
That’s at the same time debt is soaring for many Americans. While Americans hold around 1.75 trillion in student debt loans alone, they also have $1.05 trillion in credit card balances not paid off.
Speed limits dont decrease acidents. They are the most famous example of a safety feature not working
If the road is made for 90km/h, wide and with good sight lines, reducing legal speed to 70km/h doesn’t do much. There also needs to be made adjustments to the road so you cannot drive faster than 70km/h. Well so you aren’t natirally incentiviced to drive faster than you should.
Once the state of Montana had no speed limits out side ot towns. When they added speed limits there was no change to traffic accidents or deaths.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/tanyamohn/2023/07/13/theres-a-trend-to-raise-speed-limits-but-it-increases-risk-of-death-and-serious-injury/