The reducing of speed limits is what gets to me. Like you rightly put it cars have evolved in almost every way, less effort is used to hit higher speeds. I at times think the people In charge of licensing drivers are not confident in the quality of drivers they are sending out or governments see it as a way of making easy money through fines. My country has speed limits as low as 60km/h on a high way.
You raised a point I chose not to mention, revenue raising through traffic infringements. The fines here are massive and usually the locations chosen for speed cameras are not necessarily high crash zones, just areas the government know they'll keep the fine-revenue coming in. It's pretty pathetic.
Very pathetic. It’s sad when the institutions meant to protect the people are the ones ripping them off. What’s ironic in my country is over seven policemen and women will leave there offices, and hide in conners after traffic lights. To fine and collect money from anyone that beats the traffic lights, in ways the deem wrong.
The same thing happens here, they hide despite not being supposed to, and they also put cameras in different types of vehicles to catch people out. They get plenty.