On Mon, Dec 08, 2008 at 08:58:10AM -0600, John Wesley Simpson wrote:
5 mph ~= 8km/h. That's easily reachable: short-term (world record is ~37km/h for 100m [1]), medium-term (everything below 9.5km/h yields 0 points in the Cooper test [2] - a standard evaluation practice at school in Germany) and even long-term (current world record: ~20km/h [3]).I have yet to meet a pedestrian who would exceed a 5mph speed limit,
Don't underestimate human acceleration and speed.
and I can't remember seeing a speed limit sign with a lower value.
I can (5 km/h). :)But at least in Germany, speed limits only apply to vehicles (whether motorized or not) anyway.
[1] http://www.iaaf.org/OLY08/news/kind=100/newsid=46772.html [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cooper_test [3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marathon CU Sascha -- http://sascha.silbe.org/ http://www.infra-silbe.de/
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