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From: rh@mit-eddi.UUCP (Randy Haskins)
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Subject: Re: 55mph aint the answer  
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Date: Fri, 24-Jun-83 00:07:05 EDT
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Posted: Fri Jun 24 00:07:05 1983
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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