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Re: Cops not ticketed in Colorado
carmins@dayton.saic.com wrote:
> Let me see if I have this right, Alex. You are willing to trade time
> saved for lives? Now there is a real even trade-off. Almost every
> accident in our community is caused as a result of speed.
Heavens, no! Whoever suggested we trade time for lives is a fool!
We should all drive 2 mph -- we'll all be safer!
For the intellectually impaired, Steve, let me make it a bit clearer:
It's safer to stay at home, in bed. Less traffic accidents there.
But that's not very realistic, is it? No, of course not. Even if
your imaginary lives vs time trade-off were actually true, we'd still
need to find an acceptable compromise between the desire for speedy
travel and the desire to save as many lives as possible.
However, if you believe that faster speeds necessarily mean more
accidents, you're simply wrong. In the DOT study, the accident rate
went down when speed limits were raised. In Massachusetts, when parts
of I90 were raised to 65 (from 55), the accident rate also went down.
You'll have to excuse me if I trust the empirical studies above a bit
more than I trust the anecdotes you've cited.
A
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