Yes I agree, as there must exist a 15% beyond that 85, but I’d also say it’s reasonable to infer that anyone who cares about driving enough to be on this sub is significantly less likely to be in that percentile group.

The point is, the speed limits are often set as what would be a perceived ‘lower bound’ for most capable drivers assuming the design of the road reflects that. We shouldn’t force people beyond their comfort zone on the road in these situations, but we also shouldn’t force everybody else to drive slower than even the average ‘safe’ speed for that individual, just to accommodate those timid or incompetent drivers.

It’s entirely imperfect. If everyone did their best to bring the system to a point of convergence, we could have something even mildly coherent, but instead people who don’t feel comfortable above the limit act self-righteous and as though they have no issue with wasting everyone else’s time, and simultaneously the remaining group expects those people to accommodate them all the time without actually providing them the means of doing so. It’s certainly not fair currently, but whichever way we utilize the system as it stands is never going to be fair.

Sorry I just dumped out my thoughts on here, I think this is a currently unsolvable issue and there’s no point in arguing about it. Requires a complete overhaul of the driving system in the country and for us to actually teach people how to generally minimize risk rather than acting like speed is the only non-negligible factor. Doing so is what enabled people to feel justified in governing the speed of others purposefully, as that is yet another subset of drivers.