Wired Magazine has a Day in Technology section that picks a highlight from the history of changes in technology. Today’s highlight is:
1901: Connecticut passes the first U.S. state law regulating motor vehicles. It sets a speed limit of 12 mph in cities and a whopping 15 mph outside.
The law was not the first U.S. speed limit, just the first for automobiles.
How would you have like to have had the distinction for the first automobile speeding ticket.
Arrests for speeding in motor vehicles also precede the Connecticut law. Cabbie Jacob German was arrested and jailed in New York City May 20, 1899, for driving his electric taxi at the “breakneck speed” of 12 mph.Â
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