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Re: Can't Drive 65 (was 'Re: Tolerance of vice')
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Mon, 29 Oct 2001 20:00:41 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Christopher L. Weeks writes:
> In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Scott Arthur writes:
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> > The biggest cause of road
> > related deaths (in the UK) are drivers driving too fast for the road
> > conditions, I doubt de-restricting speed limits would improve that either?
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> What would be cool is signage that responds to the weather. Based on the
> temperature and state of precipitation (or even reflective characteristics of
> the road and atmospheric light-transmission characteristics), the signs could
> display a different limit. I wonder how hard such a thing would be to
> implement?
In the UK this is already done indirectly. I think speed is altered based on
how close the cars are travelling together on some roads leading to London -
slow moving cars travel closer together. In these type of conditions,
reducing the speed limit actually increases the speed of the traffic - or at
least the flow of traffic.
I remember reading that in the UK there are actually less accidents during
rainy weather - the perception of danger causes drivers to drive more
carefully. :-/
Scott A
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> Chris
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