Path: utzoo!mnetor!perle!rob
From: rob@perle.UUCP (Rob McDougall)
Newsgroups: ont.general
Subject: Re: Highway Driving Rules
Message-ID: <580@perle.UUCP>
Date: 28 Apr 89 12:19:57 GMT
Reply-To: rob@perle.UUCP (Rob McDougall)
Distribution: ont
Organization: Perle Systems Limited  Scarborough, Ontario, Canada
Lines: 26


	If low speed limits are there solely for the purpose of reducing
	accidents, why not take this to the limit?  Lower them further!
	Why, we could probably even go back to using horses.  Or even
	walking!

	The point is, cars were invented as a means of getting somewhere
	faster.  Why do we then impose artificially low speed limits on
	those vehicles, especially when it is a very debatable point as
	to whether or not these limits actually make the roads safer.

	Is anyone aware of whether or not the incidence of traffic fatalities
	is higher or lower or comparable to ours in countries without
	speed limits on expressways, such as West Germany?  It would be
	interesting to find out, not that it would make a damn bit of
	difference.

	If I recall correctly, part of the reason for reducing the speed
	limits on our highways was to save energy during the fuel shortage.
	Maybe someone should call Mike Wilson, and remind him that if we
	drive faster, he'll make more money in gasoline taxes...:-). 

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Rob McDougall				Perle Systems Inc; Scarborough, Ontario
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