American explained how much time speeding actually saves you and the results say a lot
- A YouTuber tried calculating whether speeding saves you time
- He theorized breaking the speed limit by five or 10MPH
- The surprising result says it all
Published on Apr 20, 2025 at 7:48 PM (UTC+4)
by Alessandro Renesis
Last updated on Apr 17, 2025 at 4:54 PM (UTC+4)
Edited by
Emma Matthews
Speeding in the US, as it turns out, is a bad idea for one more reason we hadn’t considered.
An American YouTuber conducted a semi-scientific test to see whether speeding actually saves time.
The result says a lot.
And it goes to show speeding just isn’t worth it.
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Why speeding doesn’t work
A YouTuber who goes by STEMbite did something most of us never want to do: he did the math.
The YouTuber tried calculating the amount of time you could theoretically save by going five or 10mph over the speed limit in America, and the result is quite clear.
In short, even if we removed the legal element, speeding wouldn’t really be justified by the amount of time you’d save.
“Going up to 80MPH only saves you 15 seconds. In fact, the difference between 70 and 75MPH only saves you three seconds over an entire minute,” he said in his video.
“For most of our driving, and we are only driving 10 or 15 minutes, the gain we get from speeding is so small that it really doesn’t justify the risk.”
The only two places in the world with no speed limits
The irony is that ‘speeding’ is relative, because different countries, and sometimes different regions within the same country, have different speed limits.
There are famously only two places in the world with no speed limits.
The first one, the one that most people might be aware of, is the German Autobahn network.
More than half of the total length of the German highway network has no speed limit at all.
Through the years, both manufacturers and private collectors have taken advantage of this unique feature.
Driving your supercar at 200mph or more on the Autobahn in your supercar and recording it is frowned upon, but technically not illegal.
The second place with no universal speed limit, this one is probably a little less famous, is the Isle of Man, in the UK.
The Isle of Man – sometimes spelled ‘Mann’ – is a self-governing British dependency with no national speed limit.
To be clear, careless and dangerous driving laws still apply, and there are local speed limits in place.
But, broadly speaking, it’s a place where you can drive without paying much attention to the speedometer, unless otherwise stated.
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