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- Path: sparky!uunet!comp.vuw.ac.nz!animal!joe
- From: joe@animal.gcs.co.nz (Joe Kuzak)
- Subject: Re: Curve-Smoothing (was: Holiday Road Period)
- Message-ID: <C1C7pp.7J@animal.gcs.co.nz>
- Keywords: bad driving!
- Organization: GCS Limited, Wellington, New Zealand
- References: <gXqJXB10w165w@actrix.co.at> <C12zLL.7pI@animal.gcs.co.nz> <1993Jan21.104459.5564@cs.aukuni.ac.nz>
- Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 02:46:32 GMT
- Lines: 24
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- In article <1993Jan21.104459.5564@cs.aukuni.ac.nz> jeremy@cs.aukuni.ac.nz (Jeremy Gibbons) writes:
- >In <C12zLL.7pI@animal.gcs.co.nz> joe@animal.gcs.co.nz (Joe Kuzak) writes:
- >
- >>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.
- >
- >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
- >
- >---
- >Jeremy Gibbons <jeremy@cs.aukuni.ac.nz> tel: +64 9 373 7599
- > Department of Computer Science, fax: +64 9 373 7453
- > University of Auckland, Private Bag 92019, Auckland, New Zealand.
- >
- The point is...the increase in traffic speed does not mean an increase
- in accident rates. Motorway accidents rates are about the same in both
- UK and Germany .. The Uk has a 120K limit.
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