Speed leemit

A speed leemit is the maximum speed allout bi law for vehicles on a road.

Speed leemit sign showin 30 kilometres per oor (km/h).

Highest speed leemits aroond the warld. Roond signs show kilometres per oor an rectangular signs show miles per oor.

Speed leemit units on traffec signs aroond the warld:

  Kilometres per oor (km/h)

  Miles per oor (mph)

  Both

  No speed leemit units

Speed leemits are for ordinar merkit wi a traffec sign. Speed leemit signs are aften shawn naur poleetical mairchs an road intersections, an in some cases speed leemit signs kythe at raiglar intervals. Poleetical mairchs can reenge frae kintra mairchs tae ceity leemits.

(Forbye, an axiom o Einstein's relativity theories states that the speed leemit o the Universe is the speed o licht in a vacuum, i.e. 299,792,458 metres per second.)

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