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Old 05-27-2016, 11:42 AM   #11
Undertoad
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I went and looked up what made them want to put in limits. It was an incident last year, when 5 students were killed when a truck driver was texting and apparently it was porn and he wasn't paying attention and etc.

So this is where "safety" fails us. If he is on that stretch of road at 75 instead of 65, he is actually on it for a smaller amount of time, and less of that time is unattentive. Students are run into at 75 instead of 65, but it probably happens less often.

You could lower the speed to a rate where it guarantees no road fatalities... except for the fatalities where a critical medical package doesn't arrive on time, or because all goods and services are slightly more expensive due to shipping costs... or because we're on I-95 for 27 hours just trying to get to Orlando and we shoot ourselves and our family...

And, really, after my Tesla test drive, I see it's obviously only a few years out: automation is going to address this. Leave the speeds where they are, because the systems will prevent anyone running into students.

At any speed. Raise the limits, that's the future.
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