Also alterations are made by users and checked quickly with fast updates as it often live. Roadworks at the bottom of my road reported by user, made live hours later and google maps, sygic and others were days behind.
Oh dear, here we go, back to smartphones again. 
And as to @Corona ‘Roadworks at the bottom of my road reported by user, made live hours later’, what the hell use is that moments after a speed limit has been changed? 
OK, so I’m a dinosaur, but a happy dinosaur, soon no doubt to be, like my brothers and sisters, extinct.
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Not so fast! (Pun intended) its an app on my cars infotainment system, no phone involved.
True a sudden change is not much help but others warning of accidents or heavy traffic are.
Fixed that for you, David 
Infotainment? 21st century? What are you blokes on about? 
Reminds me of an Australian girlfriend of mine many years ago who, at an awkaward pause in the conversation, suddenly said 'So, what do you think of Shastri’s government of India then?
She was a bit of an intellectual though. 
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Are you sure it was conversation??
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Always sure of that.
She was very good with one liners too. After I left Oz and we had lost touch for several years, I went back again and on arrival in Sydney I rang the only number I had for her which was the bank where she had worked.
It was her that picked up the phone, and her only comment was ‘what kept you?’ 
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There are many reasons for incidents/accidents on the roads…
Inattention/phones/ drowsy/ whatever… surely some of these could have been avoided…
Road Figures for 2022 on French mainland:
3,267 people killed
236,834 people injured
of which 15,956 very seriously injured
Reasons:
28% excessive speeding
23% alcohol
13% drugs/inattention
9% refusal to recognize priority
22% of the fatal accidents were caused by ignoring the general rules of the road (not including speed)
We are now in the ridiculous situation whereby the same road between two towns can have a different speed limit,first half at 80km/h and crossing in to a new department which is 90km/h,no wonder people are confused and getting caught out,absolutely stupid,one of the worst things that they have done here in France IMO,tampering about with national speed limits .
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The limit is always signposted so I don’t really see the reason for any confusion…
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Aaah, but it is not always signposted is it? At least not in our part of France, you have to just sometimes ‘know’. Many roads are just left without any hint of whether it is 70 / 80 or 90 so how would one know?
@Euro50 you are spot on, the worst decision ever concerning road speeds, to make them regional. Ridiculous
that is huge!
I’m not surprised at excessive speeds but I do wish the drivers would not ‘tag’ our boot all the time. Also that there are lines on a RN where roads come in from the side to prevent overtaking at those junctions. It is so dangerous
Is it?
Start here
You see a 70 sign for the slip road. Turn left towards Pipriac - the next sign which gives an indication of the speed limit is the advance warning of the 50 zone through the town .
Being Morbihan the speed limit along the section of the D777 from the roundabout to the start of the 50 zone is 80kph - but there’s no indication of that as you come off the D177 (dual carriageway, 110kph limit).
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trying to follow this…
As fas as I can see the 70 sign is followed until unsafe and/or a speed-sign says different.
If leaving a dual-carriageway of 110kph, going onto an “ordinary road” non-dual carriageway, then the departmental max speed limit for ordinary road would apply, until a speed-sign says different.
and, of course, conditions and surroundings need to be considered as that over-rides everything… especially if signage is absent.
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In my area many of our roads have no speed limit signs… OK you get the “village name”, where it drops to 50kh by Law without needing a speedsign… (except for an even lower speed perhaps…
but the rest of the tiny, winding roads are 80kh by default… and the driver is supposed to judge which is actually the safest speed for the conditions on the day, at the time…
If you are unsure which “national speed limit” applies in your area (80 or 90) I suggest you err on the side of caution and go for 80.
EDIT: Actually, for 90 it must be signed…
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But that is true everywhere - speed limits are limits, not instructions to drive at that speed.
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We have recently “acquired” such a stretch, in which you leave one hamlet with a 50 kmh limit for 90 kmh stretch of all of 300m, to only be forced back down to 50 kmh for another 300m on a bend in a road which has now officially become a commune.
Whilst I agree with the 50 kmh limits, especially in the newly designated “commune” where several people have repeatedly had their garden walls taken out by people driving too fast around the bend in the road, it seems totally senseless to push the speed limit back up to 90 kmh for just 300m of straight road.
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absolutely… my response was to the comment about the lack of speed-signs…
and if folk actually drive at the 80kh (unlabelled) limit on many of our tiny roads, with the mindset “but I have the right…” there would be even more accidents than there are already… the corkscrew bends force 'em to slow down… phew…
We have one of those nearby. Goodness knows how they move it. It gets a new coat of spray paint regularly. And then gets cleaned up again. You just have to look out for it and once you pass it you know you’re ok.