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What's wrong with that?

• viraptor 11y ago
  What's wrong with increasing the speed? I'd rather the speed stayed constant and accidents went down than see speed going up and accidents staying constant.
  • aianus 11y ago
    > I'd rather the speed stayed constant and accidents went down than see speed going up and accidents staying constant. By that logic we should all be driving cars around at horse speeds.
    • PhasmaFelis 11y ago
      Considering that car accidents are at least close to the #1 cause of preventable death in the western world...hell, maybe we should. There are lots of ways to handle reasonably high-speed, long-distance transit without giving every individual human or small handful of humans their own high-speed rolling projectile.
  • brbsix 11y ago
    It's important to consider whether increased speed does in fact cause accidents. Let's use data to determine an acceptable speed rather than arbitrarily decree "speed kills".
    • viraptor 11y ago
      Are you implying that there is a scenario where higher speeds could result in fewer accidents? How could that work at current driving speeds? All the data we have right now about people driving shows that speed indeed kills. You have to consider both automated truck crashing into and being crashed by somebody - and that's usually going to be a human driver.
      • JupiterMoon 11y ago
        From my observations a major source of traffic clustering on 2 lane UK A and M roads is lorries overtaking each other. This seems to happen because some lorries drive at 50 mph and others at 60 mph. If all lorries were to drive at precisely the same speed they would rarely have cause to leave the slow lane and clustering of cars would be reduced.