is this a technical or cultural feature?
They already allow the cruise control's automatic speed limit adjustment to have an offset applied, so that everywhere you go you're speeding by 10% or 15% over the legal limit.
On the low-speed roads mentioned in the article, people ignore unoccupied stop signs and red lights all the time. It was literally 6 days ago that I was biking home from work, stopped at a stop sign (I know some cyclists campaign for Idaho Stops, but they're not legal in my state yet and I'm out there as much for advocacy as I am for anything else), when someone blew through the 35mph 4-way stop without even putting their phone down. There were no cars, just me on my bike, so I guess she felt she didn't have to stop?