11/24 Study: Higher Speed Limits Create Dangers
http://csua.org/u/533 (Yahoo News)
\_ I'd like to see the numbers broken down by age, gender and DUI/!DUI.
\_ yeah, right. as if speed limits aren't part of a Big Government
plot along with traffic lights to enslave Red Blooded Americans
to the UN. Get out of here with your whacko liberal trolls.
\_ more likely low speed limits generate revenue for the
government and insurance companies. Low blood-alcohol levels
are a cash cow.
\_ Even if this is true, I'm still all for it as long as it
reducts fatal accidents dramatically (according to the
article). One nice side effect is that it slightly reduces
gas consumption.
\_ And yet the societal advantage of 99.999999% of the population
who dont have accidents who will be wasting less time in
transportation is completely ignored.
\_ When a fatal crash occurs, a large number of people are affected
minutes you save with a higher speed limit.
by the gridlock it creates. And the delay is bigger than the
minutes you save with a higher speed limit. Plus the delay is
unpredictable unlike ordinary traffic jam.
\_ That study said nothing about number of accidents, just the
deaths involved. Also it admitted the fatality rate dropped
nationally each year in the study. They make some weird
comparisons between different states. It's a crock of crap.
Of course, not all highways are the same. If I look at 280 vs.
101 in the bay area, 280 is just much better suitable for high
speeds. A lot of freeways have really bad on and off ramps,
and idiots who don't know how to merge.
\_ still the accidents causing traffic jams would have to be
really frequent to overcome the advantage of everyone else
being able to go faster ALL THE TIME. And you're ignoring
the other advantage of increased fatal accidents -- every one
is at least one less driver on the road. |
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