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From: jim@randvax.ARPA (Jim Gillogly)
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Subject: Re: Fast driving
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Date: Mon, 23-Jan-84 15:18:06 EST
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Posted: Mon Jan 23 15:18:06 1984
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Maybe there ARE less fatalities at 55 MPH than at 75 ... so what?  I'll
bet if the speed limit were 45 you would get less still.  And even less
at 25 MPH.  Does that mean we should make the speed limit 25 MPH?  Not
a chance!  The point is this: there is a tradeoff between speed and
safety, and a driver is always deciding how safe he is willing to be in
order to get where he wants to be "in time".  I don't buy the 55 MPH
advocate telling me that 55 is always fast enough for ME to be driving.
And the number of fatalities is a non-issue.

BTW, somebody said we in the U.S. should use European licensing methods.
On my trip to Europe last summer a German friend and a Dutch friend both
told me that Belgium doesn't require any driver's license: that as soon
as you can reach the pedals you can drive.  My experiences trying to get
through Brussels in a rented car would tend to support this.

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