Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!genrad!mit-eddi!smh From: smh@mit-eddi.UUCP (Steven M. Haflich) Newsgroups: net.flame Subject: Re: Flame against 55MPH speed-limit Message-ID: <237@mit-eddi.UUCP> Date: Sat, 11-Jun-83 22:48:25 EDT Article-I.D.: mit-eddi.237 Posted: Sat Jun 11 22:48:25 1983 Date-Received: Sun, 12-Jun-83 19:04:09 EDT References: ut-ngp.344 Lines: 14 Have you ever SEEN several blood smeared bodies scattered over the asphalt freshly after an accident? Everyone assumes it can't happen to him -- things seen only on the evening news are rarely perceived as real. Unfortunately for folks who speed, and alnyone else sharing the roads, there is a square law [no double meaning intended] tied up with how long it takes to stop. If cars could go no faster than 5 MPH, there would be essentially no fatalities. If the minimum highway speed were > 100 MPH, probably almost everyone would be a fatality, sooner or later. There is some sort of curve between thes points, and the search for a speed limit seems to be a search for the `knee' of the curve. 55 seems about right to me. ~v