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Re: RE: [privacy] Gas prices and car driving
From: "Brian Loe" <knobdy () gmail com>
Date: Fri, 4 Aug 2006 15:31:41 -0500
On 8/4/06, Richard M. Smith <rms () bsf-llc com> wrote:
In addition, Montana adopted a maximum speed limit of 75 MPH for interstate highways in 1999: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speed_limits_in_the_United_States#Montana The zoning out problem should exist in many states between the Mississippi River and the Rockies. However, there is a 2 to 1 spread in death rates for similar states in this region. Regardless, Montana is poor example to hold up for not having speed limits on highways.
This is hilarious - why back off Montana? Both of your sources show that the speed limit has either a negative effect or no effect at all on highway deaths. The last item on your first source has the number of deaths by year. Referencing your second source it seems the important years are 95-99: Deaths total: 1995 215 1996 200 1997 265 1998 237 1999 220 Since the new law passed (which started halfway through 99 I believe): 2000 237 2001 230 2002 269 2003 262 This hardly proves your case. And enough with the physics "lessons" - they don't help you either. If I drive and 120mph its not a problem until I hit a wall (doing 0mph) or another vehicle going slower. If the vehicle I hit is doing 110, and depending on the cars, it might be possible to recover from the *bump* and it certainly has no bearing on my being a fatality. You can catch physics in action on the speed channel every day of the week. I'm not much on NASCAR but it seems to fit this discussion in that they hit each other all day at a high rate of speed and no one dies; they hit the wall and, well, goodbye number 3. _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
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