funsec mailing list archives
RE: RE: [privacy] Gas prices and car driving
From: "Richard M. Smith" <rms () bsf-llc com>
Date: Fri, 4 Aug 2006 17:26:32 -0400
Right, just comparing fatalities does tell much. The State of Montana looked at all this 1997 including miles driven, average speed estimates, accidents vs. deaths, etc: http://leg.state.mt.us/content/audit/download/98l-11.pdf I wasn't able to find a similar report for after 1997. Richard -----Original Message----- From: Dude VanWinkle [mailto:dudevanwinkle () gmail com] Sent: Friday, August 04, 2006 5:11 PM To: Brian Loe Cc: Richard M. Smith; funsec () linuxbox org Subject: Re: [funsec] RE: [privacy] Gas prices and car driving On 8/4/06, Brian Loe <knobdy () gmail com> wrote:
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.
To be statistically accurate, you have to correlate these numbers with the population growth over the years as well as miles driven per person. -JP<who is still amused that in drsolly's world the slow lane IS the left one> _______________________________________________ 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.
Current thread:
- Re: RE: [privacy] Gas prices and car driving, (continued)
- Re: RE: [privacy] Gas prices and car driving David Lodge (Aug 03)
- RE: RE: [privacy] Gas prices and car driving Crissup, John (MBNAP it) (Aug 03)
- Re: RE: [privacy] Gas prices and car driving Randall M (Aug 03)
- Re: Re: RE: [privacy] Gas prices and car driving Dude VanWinkle (Aug 04)
- RE: Re: RE: [privacy] Gas prices and car driving Blanchard_Michael (Aug 04)
- Re: Re: RE: [privacy] Gas prices and car driving Dude VanWinkle (Aug 04)
- RE: RE: [privacy] Gas prices and car driving Blanchard_Michael (Aug 04)
- RE: RE: [privacy] Gas prices and car driving Richard M. Smith (Aug 04)
- Re: RE: [privacy] Gas prices and car driving Brian Loe (Aug 04)
- Re: RE: [privacy] Gas prices and car driving Dude VanWinkle (Aug 04)
- Re: RE: [privacy] Gas prices and car driving Brian Loe (Aug 04)
- RE: RE: [privacy] Gas prices and car driving Richard M. Smith (Aug 04)
- Re: RE: [privacy] Gas prices and car driving Drsolly (Aug 04)
- RE: RE: [privacy] Gas prices and car driving StyleWar (Aug 05)
- RE: RE: [privacy] Gas prices and car driving Gary Funck (Aug 05)
- Re: RE: [privacy] Gas prices and car driving Dennis Henderson (Aug 05)
- RE: RE: [privacy] Gas prices and car driving Drsolly (Aug 05)
- Re: RE: [privacy] Gas prices and car driving Brian Loe (Aug 04)
- RE: RE: [privacy] Gas prices and car driving William Lefkovics (Aug 04)