Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84 SMI; site sun.uucp Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!ucbvax!decvax!decwrl!sun!alan From: alan@sun.uucp (Alan Marr) Newsgroups: net.politics Subject: Re: They Can't Drive 55 Message-ID: <2836@sun.uucp> Date: Fri, 27-Sep-85 01:56:22 EDT Article-I.D.: sun.2836 Posted: Fri Sep 27 01:56:22 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 30-Sep-85 01:26:46 EDT References: <420@rti-sel.UUCP> Reply-To: alan@sun.UUCP (Alan Marr) Distribution: net Organization: Sun Microsystems, Inc. Lines: 21 > 3. Are fewer lives REALLY lost on our highways due to the > lower speed limit? Car and Driver magazine had an excellent article a few years ago where they showed one of the graphs that "demonstrated" that traffic fatalities had gone down as a result of the 55 limit. They then showed the same graph in a larger 60 year context, which showed that there has been a long-term downward trend. They then showed that the number of miles driven is more highly correlated with fatalities than speed limits. The 55 limit was introduced at the time of the oil crisis, a time when people naturally drove less. Commerce and industry are being restrained by artificially low limits, not to mention freedoms. --- {ucbvax,decwrl}!sun!alan "Extraordinary how potent cheap music is." Noel Coward Brought to you by Super Global Mega Corp .com