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From: mangoe@umcp-cs.UUCP (Charley Wingate)
Newsgroups: net.auto
Subject: Re: Re: Slow down--and live
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Date: Sun, 9-Sep-84 22:39:03 EDT
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Posted: Sun Sep  9 22:39:03 1984
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> If P(30) is not at least twice as small as P(60) then you will have more
> accidents at 30 due to the fact that the driving time is twice as long.

This would only be true if the probability were calculated per unit time.
More likely, it would be per unit distance, and therefore the travel time
is irrelevant.

Besides, having personally participated in a high-speed accident (circa
50 MPH), I would rather have the two accidents at 30 MPH.

Charley Wingate