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1.86 MPH: the World’s Lowest Speed Limit (for now)

Reader Tomer, writing from Israel and responding to my query as to the World’s Slowest Speed Limit (some readers had sent in signs advising 3 MPH), sends in this contender, which at 3 KPH puts us at 1.86 MPH — a conundrum, of course, as the needle on most speedos won’t even faithfully register that low a velocity.

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Posted on Wednesday, June 2nd, 2010 at 6:35 am by: Tom Vanderbilt
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Tragedy of the Commons: PCH Edition

Those wonderfully scenic, empty drives you see in car commercials? Don’t forget the small words at the bottom: “Closed course.” The reality, as described by an auto journo out in search of a good stretch to unwind a Porsche, is more often like this.

(thanks Ed)

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Posted on Wednesday, June 2nd, 2010 at 6:28 am by: Tom Vanderbilt
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How We Drive is the companion blog to Tom Vanderbilt’s New York Times bestselling book, Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do (and What It Says About Us), published by Alfred A. Knopf in the U.S. and Canada, Penguin in the U.K, and in languages other than English by a number of other fine publishers worldwide.

Please send tips, news, research papers, links, photos (bad road signs, outrageous bumper stickers, spectacularly awful acts of driving or parking or anything traffic-related), or ideas for my Slate.com Transport column to me at: info@howwedrive.com.

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