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- Newsgroups: nz.general
- Subject: Re: Curve-Smoothing (was: Holiday Road Period)
- Message-ID: <1993Jan21.104459.5564@cs.aukuni.ac.nz>
- From: jeremy@cs.aukuni.ac.nz (Jeremy Gibbons)
- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 10:44:59 GMT
- References: <1993Jan15.224039.1909@gaya.gp.co.nz> <gXqJXB10w165w@actrix.co.at> <C12zLL.7pI@animal.gcs.co.nz>
- Organization: Computer Science Dept. University of Auckland
- Keywords: bad driving!
- Cc: jeremy@cs.aukuni.ac.nz
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- In <C12zLL.7pI@animal.gcs.co.nz> joe@animal.gcs.co.nz (Joe Kuzak) writes:
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- >Porshe made an interesting investigation on accident frequency and found
- >that more distance is travelled between prangs on German autobahns than
- >on lesser class roads. This despite the fantastic speeds some family cars
- >get up to these days. This investigation was done to shut the greens up
- >who wanted speed limits.
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- That's a totally bogus argument. Autobahns are safer because they have no
- junctions etc, not because of the higher speed! They would be safer still
- if speeds were kept reasonable.
-
- Jeremy
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