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Not necessarily how they want, but you're right in that it would be more difficult to police if different drivers had different limits. The driver would need to display something indicating their experience (like P plates I guess), otherwise the police wouldn't know until after they'd pulled...

Agree absolutely. That's why you have to learn to live with reality, which includes unreasonable laws and people who regularly break them. Of course there's no law that says you can't complain about it either. ;) Not at all. I didn't say I expected anything. Humans are human, which means all...

I didn't suggest they should be disobeyed, just that in this one particular instance (although there are untold others as well) it is unreasonable. However, the world would be a great place (or at least a greater place) if the laws were all reasonable to start with. GP

That is irrelevant. The point is that the speed limit is nothing like reasonable for the short stretch of road, and being near the end of a freeway, it's not a case of suddenly speeding up and then having to quickly slow down again, but rather already travelling at speed and then having to slow...

Depends. I know a (short) stretch of road with a 60 kph limit where 100-110 kph is generally perfectly safe. Only the speed limit is unreasonable there. It's a mistake to associate "speed limit" with "speeding" (in the sense of excessive speed) and "dangerous driving". Speed limits are mostly...