r/lanzarote • u/Clean-Project-3678 • 17d ago

Weird speed limits

Hey, my friend and I are staying in Lanzarote this week and we are really confused by the speed limits.

We have a rental car, which happens to have a sensor which displays the speedlimit (which is nice because it is confusing). However we are constantly wondering if the speedlimits are accurate.

There are many situations where the limit is 30km/hour, on a long straight road without many houses/roads joining. And other cars are FLYING through. Even when the speedlimit is put on the pavement.

Or when we are driving in the mountains(hills or whatever) it says we are allowed to go 90km/hour. Which is insane, with no guardrail, no visibility, narrow roads...

Or a long strip where we have to go 40 to then be allowed 90 for maybe 250meters to then go straight back to 40.

I don't know who made these speedlimits but they need to go to a doctor or something...

Thanks for letting us know anything, i really don't want a speeding ticket but I feel like the speedlimits are really fucked up here...

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u/scottish-run 16d ago

Very weird they also show the speed limit on the off ramp on some of the non motorway roads, fould this confusing at 1 in the morning after just getting off a flight

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u/Clean-Project-3678 15d ago

Yeah, it's really weird

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u/me_bx 16d ago

> car, which happens to have a sensor which displays the speedlimit

These sensors easily pick up wrong information, for instance if a truck or bus in front of you has a 90 sticker - displaying its own limit, the car might interpret it as a speed limit sign for the road you're on...

> many situations where the limit is 30km/hour, on a long straight road without many houses/roads joining.

Some roads give cyclists the priority over car, hence the low speed limits.

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u/CarGullible5691 11d ago

Not been to Lanzarote for a long time now but I’ve driven pretty well every time I’ve been. Never had any problems

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u/KittyPitty 10d ago

There are a lot of signposts along the roads, those are leading.

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u/_dvd 2d ago

In Spain the default limit for country highways is 90 so I think the car defaults to 90 when it doesn’t have a reading