Sentence examples for blanket speed from inspiring English sources

In the name of road safety, they have accepted all manner of restrictions on their freedom including blanket speed limits (a universal 55mph top speed for many years; far lower than anywhere in Europe) as well as mandatory seat-belt use, prohibitions on texting while driving, and some of the toughest drink-and-drive laws on the planet.

The Autobahn in Germany is a famous road because it didn't have blanket speed limits.

The London borough was the first to impose blanket 20mph speed restrictions in 2013, following trials on its most dangerous roads.

The goals it outlined in the release include blanket high-speed Internet connectivity (which is what Facebook has apparently been discussing with the White House) and space-based Earth imagery that is updated in ear real-time.

Edmund King, the president of the AA, who will meet Mr Fitzpatrick and Transport Secretary Geoff Hoon to discuss the issue, said a blanket reduction of speed limits would not make roads safer, given that many accidents on rural roads involved only one car.

Just south of Djouce was a 3km-long raised boardwalk of beautifully weathered railway sleepers, conserving the saturated blanket bog and speeding me along to a memorial boulder to JB Malone, the "Wainwright of Ireland" who established the idea of the Wicklow Way in 1966.

These were the first Winter Games where the sites were blanketed by high-speed wireless signals.

If and when the outback is blanketed with broadband-speed internet, the NBN will catapult areas that mostly missed out on the third industrial revolution of computing and online right into an era of smart devices, automation and 3D printers.

The coolant then returns through the blanket channel at a low speed and is superheated to ∼1100 °C.

The AA believes that reducing the speed limit in a blanket manner is the wrong approach, as it does not address the specific road safety problems.

Broadband wireless companies hope to best the other schemes by offering the blanket coverage of cellular at a speed approximating that of Wi-Fi.