Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!genrad!mit-eddi!rh From: rh@mit-eddi.UUCP (Randy Haskins) Newsgroups: net.flame Subject: Re: 55mph aint the answerMessage-ID: <294@mit-eddi.UUCP> Date: Fri, 24-Jun-83 00:07:05 EDT Article-I.D.: mit-eddi.294 Posted: Fri Jun 24 00:07:05 1983 Date-Received: Fri, 24-Jun-83 22:32:37 EDT References: wbux5.118 Lines: 23 While Laurie makes some good points, we must remember that in order to be a real solution to a problem, a proposal must be workable. It's a great idea to test everyone (extensively) every year, but how in the hell are you going to manage such a thing. I'm not sure how many drivers there are in Massachusetts, but let's just make an order of mag. figure of say 5 M (that's 50 M to 500 k). Anyway, multiply that figure by about 1 Man-hour (sorry, person-hour) per year for the testing (if it's to be extensive, it's at least an hour for the test, probably 2 ). Multiply that figure by 3-5 for bureaucratic overhead (at least. Somebody not only has to take care of each persons records, but also take care of the record for each employee, which we will show to be a large number.) So you will need between 5 and ten million man-hours /year of from people qualified (read trained) to do the testing. Since a usual person works at most 2000 hours per year (40 hr/wk, 2wk vacation) and most don't work 1800 (10% absenteeism, which is not uncommon), you will need at the lower end about 3000 such people. Then, add about 8-9 k more people for the overhead factor. So, based on 5 million drivers (which is probably low), 10-12 thousand people will be needed to just to test them. I don't think that Mass DMV could pull that off. -Randy rh@mit-eddie