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Automotive News & Views Should the US government bring back the 55 mph max speed limit again?
1418 messages, Last post on Dec 16, 2008 at 11:21 AM
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Replying to: steve_ (Dec 12, 2008 9:53 am) So for example point a to b and importantly END DESTINATION to END DESTINATION, believe it or not it is almost impossible to get much over 55 mph AVERAGE. So just because a European has a 55 mph AVERAGE it doesn't mean for example he has not gone 120 mph in achieving that average, nor woujld it necessarily mean an American HAD to go 120 mph, yet still achieve the same AVERAGE.. So again the methodology is all important.
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Replying to: ruking1 (Dec 12, 2008 9:58 am)
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Replying to: steve_ (Dec 12, 2008 9:59 am) |
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Replying to: steve_ (Dec 12, 2008 9:53 am) No, I lost power, but somehow my computer's still working.  I think it's because we're saving our carbon credits, and the spirits of Earf looked kindly on our valley.  Kernick, move just a bit farther north to Quebec and you'll be both smart and legal. They should also include a ban on white cars in winter, in that legislation! Much higher accident rate with white cars in the winter. I'd be okay there too - I have a red car.
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Replying to: ruking1 (Dec 12, 2008 9:46 am)
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Replying to: ruking1 (Dec 14, 2008 1:57 pm) 
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Replying to: cdn_tch (Dec 14, 2008 4:40 pm)  A NON event!
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Replying to: ruking1 (Dec 14, 2008 4:43 pm) A NON event! Actually the NHTSA brought it up saying that they expect there to be about a 10% (that would be somewhere around 4,000) drop in highway fatalities. While in a way it doesn't sound like much, I'm reminded of the Joseph Stalin quote "One death is a tragedy; a million is a statistic". It is very easy to look at the statistics and not appreciate that for every one of those statistics (40,000+ fatalities), there is a massive tragedy for someone. So every death that can be prevented, should be. Lest you be the one delivering or have delivered to you the sad news that someone you care for is never coming home. 
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