--- title: Five Best: Almost Every Speed Limit Is Too Low description: Almost every speed limit is too low, we could soon see the NCAA of video games and more. canonical: https://time.com/4764816/almost-every-speed-limit-is-too-low/ author: TIME article:opinion: true article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-05-03T16:00:21.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T04:58:53.251Z article:section: Ideas og:title: Almost Every Speed Limit Is Too Low og:description: And four more of today's best ideas og:url: https://time.com/4764816/almost-every-speed-limit-is-too-low/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Almost Every Speed Limit Is Too Low twitter:description: And four more of today's best ideas twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Almost Every Speed Limit Is Too Low by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute May 3, 2017 4:00 PM UTC by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute May 3, 2017 4:00 PM UTC **1\.** [**Almost every speed limit is too low.**](https://priceonomics.com/is-every-speed-limit-too-low/) By Alex Mayyasi in _Priceonomics_ **2\.** [**We could soon see the NCAA of video games.**](https://theoutline.com/post/1450/collegiate-esports) By Rollin Bishop in the _Outline_ **3\.** [**Why exercise? Soon a pill will boost your athletic endurance without the workout.**](https://www.salk.edu/news-release/exercise-pill-boosts-athletic-endurance-70-percent/) By the _Salk Institute_ **4\.** [**Could a tax on robots help pay to retrain the workers they replace?**](http://www.businessinsider.com/san-francisco-considers-robot-tax-jane-kim-2017-4) By Melia Robinson in _Business Insider_ **5\.** [**Walmart has a plan to trick people into saving money.**](https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/05/how-to-trick-people-into-saving-money/521421/) By Rob Walker in the _Atlantic_  [_The Aspen Institute_](http://www.aspeninstitute.org/) _is an educational and policy studies organization based in Washington, D.C._ ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"OpinionNewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4764816/almost-every-speed-limit-is-too-low/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4764816/almost-every-speed-limit-is-too-low/"},"headline":"Almost Every Speed Limit Is Too Low","datePublished":"2017-05-03T16:00:21.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T04:58:53.251Z","description":"These are today's best ideas","url":"https://time.com/4764816/almost-every-speed-limit-is-too-low/","keywords":["Five Best Ideas","Innovation","Exercise","Video Games","robotics","finance"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"The Aspen Institute","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/"}],"articleSection":"Ideas","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/ideas/","name":"Ideas"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/five-best-ideas/","name":"Five Best Ideas"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4764816/almost-every-speed-limit-is-too-low/","name":"Almost Every Speed Limit Is Too Low"}}]}] ```