{"id":243,"date":"2012-06-15T13:17:00","date_gmt":"2012-06-15T13:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pim.famnit.upr.si\/wp\/?p=243"},"modified":"2021-11-18T18:22:41","modified_gmt":"2021-11-18T18:22:41","slug":"is-56-mph-a-randomly-selected-speed-limit-for-hgvs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pim.famnit.upr.si\/wp\/?p=243","title":{"rendered":"Is 56 mph a randomly selected speed limit for HGVs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It looks like a random number at first. Why 56? Why not 61 or 49? <\/p>\n<p>Then I did some conversions and found out that 56 mph is 90km\/h which is the speed limit for HGVs in continental Europe. <br \/>I also checked <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Road_speed_limits_in_the_United_Kingdom#Speed_limiters\">Wikipedia<\/a> and confirmed my thoughts.<\/p>\n<p>It looks funny though <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"no_float\" src=\"https:\/\/pim.famnit.upr.si\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/IMG_6668.jpg\" \/> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It looks like a random number at first. Why 56? Why not 61 or 49? Then I did some conversions and found out that 56 mph is 90km\/h which is the speed limit for HGVs in continental Europe. I also checked Wikipedia and confirmed my thoughts. It looks funny though<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-10-my-thoughts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pim.famnit.upr.si\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pim.famnit.upr.si\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pim.famnit.upr.si\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pim.famnit.upr.si\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pim.famnit.upr.si\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=243"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/pim.famnit.upr.si\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1276,"href":"https:\/\/pim.famnit.upr.si\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243\/revisions\/1276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pim.famnit.upr.si\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pim.famnit.upr.si\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pim.famnit.upr.si\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}