explainer · HACKER NEWS RECOMMENDATION
The Wrong Way to Set Speed Limits [ST06]
Not Just Bikes · 9 HN recommenders · 9 recommendation months
Recommended by 9 Hacker News commenters across 9 months (2021–2025).
SignalTube analysis
Among 93 other explainer videos tagged Transit, cities & urban planning, the mean is 3.2 distinct HN recommenders. This video has 9 distinct HN recommenders, about 2.8× that mean. Recommendations span 9 distinct months, longer than the peer average of 3.0 months. This is a data-derived comparison, not a human review or quality rating.
92% of its 13 labeled comments are marked as recommendations or strong recommendations. HN mention years are 2021–2025; those years describe discussion history, not upload date. Its verified runtime is 11 minutes 9 seconds. YouTube lists its publication date as 2021-09-06.
- Channel / speaker
- Not Just Bikes
- Verified runtime
- 11m 9s
- YouTube upload date
- 2021-09-06
- Hacker News mention years
- 2021–2025
SAME TOPIC AND FORMAT
Compare with related videos
The comparison cohort uses other explainer videos in Transit, cities & urban planning. “Shared recommenders” counts HN users who recommended both videos in the source graph.
| Video | HN recommenders | Recommendation months | Positive label share | Shared recommenders | Runtime | Upload date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Wrong Way to Set Speed Limits [ST06]Current video | 9 | 9 | 92% | — | 11m 9s | 2021-09-06 |
| Why American Cities Are Broke - The Growth Ponzi Scheme [ST03]explainer · Not Just Bikes | 14 | 10 | 70% | No recorded overlap | 9m 39s | 2021-01-11 |
| Stroads are Ugly, Expensive, and Dangerous (and they're everywhere) [ST05]explainer · Not Just Bikes | 12 | 11 | 60% | No recorded overlap | 18m 14s | 2021-04-26 |
| These Stupid Trucks are Literally Killing Usexplainer · Not Just Bikes | 11 | 5 | 55% | No recorded overlap | 35m 7s | 2023-03-06 |
THREE SOURCE-BASED CONTEXT POINTS
Why Hacker News recommends it
Each note combines the dataset’s stance label and short rationale; comment bodies are not reproduced. Open the HN source for the original discussion.
The archive classifies this as a recommendation in “Making an intersection unsafe for pedestrians to save seconds for drivers”. Its short rationale: Road design shapes good or bad driving.
The archive classifies this as a strong recommendation in “California Senate Passes Bill Requiring Passive Speed Limiters”. Its short rationale: Great video on US street speed limits and deaths.
The archive classifies this as a strong recommendation in “Bollards: Why and What”. Its short rationale: Design speed versus posted limits; the commenter's go-to video.