Re: GEICO's opposition to 65 mph (was Re: recommendations for auto/home insurance?)

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From: Mitchell N. Perilstein
Date: Fri, 20 Mar 1992 17:00

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Instead of lowering speed limits, the safety-concerned and the insurance
companies _could_ lobby for other things:
	
	- Make truck rear bumbers that are the height of car bumpers, not
	higher. Jacked recreational trucks also have this problem.
	
	- Ban those double and triple trailers: they are dangerous and chew
	up roads faster. 
	
	- Tariff unnecessary commercial trucking to discourage it.
	Commercial rail transport is cheaper, faster and safer. Only Bush
	prefers roads for all commerce.

	- Car side collision protection (there isn't much now!).

	- Car strengthened seats that don't flex.

	- Unwatered seatbelt and child seat usage laws.

	- Unwatered DUI laws: prison and license suspension is not too
	much to ask for, right?
		
	- Practical license exams, ie, not in parking lots.

Granted, the vehicle modifications are fought daily by their makers, but
we knew this is was a political battle when we started discussing it,
didn't we?

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