Re: Speeding (was Re: The Truth about Radar/Laser

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From: Daniel J James
Date: Thu, 27 Jan 1994 13:25

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In article <1994Jan18.221250.29380@research.nj.nec.com>,
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>	The Fair Speed Limit Act proposes setting limits at the 85th
>percentile speed, that being the speed that 85 percent of the drivers do not
>exceed.  It so happens that the fewest accidents occur at the 85th percentile
>speed (source:  NHTSA).
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  In my opinion, allowing 85% of the drivers to determine any traffic law is crazy.
If this were allowed to extend to other laws then 20 feet would be the allowable

distance between cars (at any speed), yield signs would vanish, STOP signs would be


renamed to SLOW (SOMETIMES), turn signals would disappear and car windows would
shrink to the size most people want to scrape ice from (what, 4"x6")

Djj

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