Study: Higher speed limits create dangers

USA Today | 24 Nov 03 | AP

[SLB]

What is the New Zealand government doing a speed limit study in the USA for?

[ClintonBeGone]

What is the New Zealand government doing a speed limit study in the USA for?

Ford's got a new Kangaroo coming out next year.

[dirtboy]

And why do they keep shifting back and forth between total fatalities and fatalities per million miles driven?

[agitator]

More crap gleaned from an extortionist industry that would have you paying $5000 a year for car insurance and limited to 10mph.

[billorites]

As I recall high school physics, force increases with the square of velocity.

[Puppage]

according to a report released Monday by an auto safety group funded by insurers.

Nothing like some non-biased numbers to fuel your study, hmm?

That's like getting gun stats from the Brady Center.

[nuffsenuff]

That was the first thing that popped into my head too...

I didn't really look into it but does it take into account the morons who don't go 75 and get in the way of the ones who do?

I'm willing to bet money most of these accidents are caused by someone slowing down in the left lane or moving into the left lane without looking.

[just me]

What is the New Zealand government doing a speed limit study in the USA for?

I was wondering the same thing..

[steplock]

Gee! Did someone do a reprint of the same study that came out .... what? .... 30 years ago?

And HOW MUCH did that cost us this time around?

Can you say "PLAGIARISM"??

[anobjectivist]

Energy = 1/2 mass * velocity (squared)

Force = mass * acceleration

[BenLurkin]

Total fatalities is a raw number with little independant meaning. The number of accidents per Milliion Vehicle Miles(MVM)or the number of Fatal/Injury accidents per MVM is useful for computing averages and spotting anomolous highway segments.

[ElkGroveDan]

Well then if slower is better we should lower the national speed limit to 20mph everywhere. Then we would be really, really safe.

[U S Army EOD]

They have about as many kangaroos in New Zealand as they have straight roads. Been there and drove there and didn't see any kangaroos or straight roads. So how do they know anything about driving in America.

The deaths may have a little bit to do with the fact that cars are just not as strong as they used to be and there are more on the road.

[Blue Screen of Death]

For most of human history we only moved around 3 miles per hour. It was good enough for our founding fathers, it should be good enough for us.

Let's all be really safe and demand our government reduce all speed limits to 3 miles per hour and fix cars so they can not exceed this speed limit.

Think of all the lives (especially children) that will be saved and all the traffic cops that can find something else to do (buy Krispy Kream stock) with their time.

[Question_Assumptions]

Think of how many lives we'd save if everyone drove 5 mph. Why don't we just set all the speed limits to 5 mph, then?

[spunkets]

"force increases with the square of velocity."

E = 1/2 *m*v²

F = m * a

where a = acceleration = dv/dt.

[norwaypinesavage]

Since the vast majority of fatalities occurr at night, the most important advancement in automotive safety would be the elimination of headlights.

[bert]

Because if there in notjing of real importance to add they can always beat a dead horse.

[TexasCajun]

Drive a SUV!

The life you safe may be your own!

[quark]

Total energy = 1/2 mass * velocity (squared) + mass * gravity * height

Or, as we in the fighter community say: "Altitude is energy, speed is life."