RE: RE: [privacy] Gas prices and car driving

["Richard M. Smith" <rms () bsf-llc com>]

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>

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