Australia

Driving slower conserves fuel.

This is brain-dead take, sorry.

We can and should design our cities to be safe.

30 km/h on side streets is a no-brainer and is a thing already in a bunch of countries.

That doesn't apply here as this is to do with residential / highly urbanised local streets.

Just pull over and rest.

At the same time, if the speed limit were 100km/h in an urban zone, the death rate would skyrocket. Ultimately I think it's reasonable to say it's about finding the best compromise between speed and safety, and in an urban environment, it's actually less of a compromise than you might think.

In areas with traffic, the determining factor for how fast a driver gets to their destination is not speed, but throughput: how many cars go past a certain point (eg. a traffic light) in a certain time interval. However, as speeds go up, so do safe breaking distances at a rate proportional to the speed. So you don't actually get where you want to go significantly faster by increasing speeds, because the rate at which cars pass remains practically constant.

I think that's largely in part to the enormous yanktanktinydicktrucks and 4wd's that cunts drive

It's not bubble wrapping, it's called good design. Bad design, and unnecessarily large vehicles are the cause of pedestrian and cyclist deaths.

Top-tier victim blaming from you, to suggest it's just the people doing the wrong thing who are being killed.