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Originally Posted by dpastern
Road statistics don't lie - ....
Dave
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Dave, I'm sorry mate but you've been sold a bushel of lemons.
A little bit of independent research...notably at the NTSB (USA) web site will reveal, statistically, the *safest* speed to drive is around 10km *faster* than the surrounding traffic. There is also a vast body of work that also indicates operating a vehicle at speeds on the upper side of the speed limit bell curve has the lowest crash probability.
Gosh.
How can this be? Simple. Let's assume the only speeds cars can do are 0km/hr and 60km/hr.
Clearly 60km/hr is very dangerous, as when said cars are are let loose on the general populace, *all* of these two speed vehicles, when they eventually have a crash (and given a few million samples, they will), were doing 60km/hr! (Ok, I've ignored crashes into stationary vehicles)
This begs the question: what is the most common speed ...perhaps the posted speed limit?
The dopes on our stay safe committees have only one response: lower the speed limits.
Lies, dammed lies, and statistics!