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From: kim@watsup.waterloo.edu (Kim Nguyen)
Newsgroups: ont.general
Subject: Re: Highway Driving Rules
Keywords: speed limits = wasted gas, wasted time
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Date: 4 May 89 14:55:42 GMT
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In article <3166@looking.UUCP> brad@looking.UUCP (Brad Templeton) writes:
>I believe that somebody
>once calculated that when the US reduced from 70 to 55, thus making
>everybody's trips take 25% longer, you actually got a bad result.
>
>The bad result comes from taking total passenger hours, taking 25% of
>that, and expressing it in years of human waking lifetime.  Many
>thousands of lifetimes are being wasted on the roads because of slower
>speed limits -- more than the number of lives cut short by traffic
>death.

Not only does a lower speed limit increase the amount of time wasted
on the road, but time = $$$ (eg. a truckdriver, lost productivity,
etc.).

Then, the gasoline consumption argument for lowered speed limits is
silly too, since you WASTE 25% more gas just running your car for 25%
longer getting there...
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Kim Nguyen 					kim@watsup.waterloo.edu
Systems Design Engineering  --  University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada