Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site aluxe.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxl!aluxe!2141smh From: 2141smh@aluxe.UUCP (henning) Newsgroups: net.auto Subject: Re: 55 mph kills Message-ID: <350@aluxe.UUCP> Date: Wed, 5-Sep-84 18:36:12 EDT Article-I.D.: aluxe.350 Posted: Wed Sep 5 18:36:12 1984 Date-Received: Wed, 12-Sep-84 01:11:54 EDT References: <77@ssc-vax.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Allentown, PA Lines: 8 **** **** From the keys of Steve Henning, AT&T Bell Labs, Reading, PA aluxe!2141smh The main article claimed that the 55 mph limit wasted as many lives as it saved. The fallacy is that I can waste 1/2 day per year and save someone elses life, maybe even my own. That is a very good investment. I would rather waste a fraction of a lifetime rather than kill one complete life any day.