Road rules / 🇺🇸 speed
Why should you reduce speed when driving at night even on familiar roads?
✓ ANSWER
Reduced visibility gives you less time to see and react to hazards
You can only react to what you can see, and darkness dramatically shortens your seeing distance.
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- ✓Reduced visibility gives you less time to see and react to hazards
- ✗Speed limits automatically drop by 20 mph at night
- ✗Engines run less efficiently at night
- ✗Tires have less grip in the dark
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