Re: PR stunt
"In this case, an idiot stepped out into the road unexpectedly. Even at 20mph, this can happen, and the results can be serious."
There are two fundamental approaches to setting speed of travel, at the higher end you need to be able to stop or steer around hazards, i.e. avoid collisions entirely. At the lower end in hazard dense unpredictable environments you set a speed to mitigate the damage done by a collision.