Home >Police Enforcement > Tickets and Cash > OPINION: How To Set Speed Limits For Safety, Not Profit 4/21/2021 OPINION: How To Set Speed Limits For Safety, Not Profit Commentary on the most objective method for setting speed limits when safety, not revenue, is the priority. Part 4 of a series By John F. Carr I led off this series by warning that the Federal Highway Administration wants to turn every road into a speed trap. The most dangerous of the hundreds of proposed changes to the Manual On Uniform Traffic Control Devices would delete the existing standard requiring agencies to consider traffic safety when setting speed limits. Here I discuss that standard.