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From: msb@lsuc.UUCP (Mark Brader)
Newsgroups: net.consumers
Subject: Re: 55mph speed limit
Message-ID: <608@lsuc.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 16-Apr-85 19:08:07 EST
Article-I.D.: lsuc.608
Posted: Tue Apr 16 19:08:07 1985
Date-Received: Tue, 16-Apr-85 20:41:29 EST
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Reply-To: msb@lsuc.UUCP (Mark Brader)
Organization: Law Society of Upper Canada, Toronto
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Summary: Take a train (if you can find one)

> I think the ultimate solution is to use high-tech hardware to make
> both vehicles and roads truly safe at higher speeds.

It's been done...and never mind the high tech.  The vehicles are called trains.
90 mph lines are commonplace where the traffic is there, and bad accidents
are so rare that they make the news.   And if you must have high-tech,
well, 125 mph and more is seen every day in France, Japan, Britain...

Building expensive roadways, whether for trains or cars, just isn't
economic without the traffic.  And while people prefer to kill themselves
in their individually controlled vehicles, we won't see the spending
needed to substitute anything else.

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