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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 12:21 PM
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Replying to: cdn_tch (Dec 14, 2008 5:40 pm)  A NON event!
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Replying to: ruking1 (Dec 14, 2008 5:43 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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Replying to: cdn_tch (Dec 14, 2008 7:59 pm) ..."(normal PC boiler plate observed) "... Ditto.
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Replying to: cdn_tch (Dec 14, 2008 7:59 pm) That is not our society's ACTUAL stance at all. Why surely we don't want extra people to die, if we wanted to prevent every accident and death possible, there are many more things we could do. For example, I can list: First and foremost - stop discretionary driving. Only allow auto makers to make the better performing cars - i.e. best braking distances, best handling. Use racing safety, the same systems that keep NASCAR drivers from death in their high speed wrecks. So no we don't as a society try to prevent every death possible. We allow teens to hop in a car with their friends, not wearing crash helmets, enjoying the entertainment of their car and cellphones, in vehicles that don't have the best brakes and tires, and drive 150 miles in a day, to simply lay on a beach. Injuries and deaths increase because we have granted people the freedom to do this. Driving is an increased risk that we take voluntarily. What we are and aren't willing to accept in the name of safety is also something we do voluntarily. . |
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Replying to: ruking1 (Dec 14, 2008 11:47 pm)  Everyone should read at least some of Solzhenitzen's Gulag Archipelago.
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Replying to: kernick (Dec 15, 2008 6:46 am)
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Replying to: steve_ (Dec 15, 2008 11:25 am) Shorts and tee shirt weather is 31 degrees F.  (H20 of course freezes  32 degrees.... hoo rah !!!
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Replying to: ruking1 (Dec 15, 2008 11:36 am)  It's interesting that Solzhenitsyn moved to Vermont instead of, say, Panama City. I'm not sure why this story is dated today; the finding were probably posted in here a year ago. But it makes for a snappy headline to get us back on topic: US DOT Report Confirms Speed Not Major Accident Cause (thenewspaper.com) And I'm not sure I believe this guy's story - maybe he mistakenly rented a police cruiser? "In two hours in moderate traffic, we saw no one seriously exceeding that 75-mph posted speed limit." It's time to raise the speed limit (National Post)
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Replying to: steve_ (Dec 15, 2008 11:45 am) 53 years in the making. It actually ranks as "cursing in church" as it has LONG been dogma and comission of heresy to deviate from "SPEED KILLS" So while a generation or so LATE, I for one welcome the more "transparent look" I am waiting for one of the other truths to be published, (might take another 53 years) that the overwhelming majority (80% of the fatalities) happen at 45 mph and UNDER. |
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