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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
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Posted: Sat Jun 11 22:48:25 1983
Date-Received: Sun, 12-Jun-83 19:04:09 EDT
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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