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From: wmartin@brl-smoke.ARPA (Will Martin )
Newsgroups: net.auto
Subject: Re: 65 MPH? (Statistics)
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Date: Wed, 5-Mar-86 17:03:01 EST
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The statistics that have been posted regarding highway deaths have been
in the form of number-of-deaths per vehicle-miles-travelled. Would not
it be more meaningful to see:

number-of-deaths per (vehicle-miles-travelled X hours-spent-on-road)

Thus, we would factor in the longer times it takes to travel a given
distance, given the mandated lower speeds of recent years. Perhaps
there could be another factor added -- how many (if any) trips were
not taken, or transferred to another transport medium [going by air
instead of by car, for example], due to the lower speed limit making
driving less desirable. I don't know how to do that latter, though.

Will