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TAN: Speed Limits (was Ten Items or Less at Trader Joe's In Sunnyvale)
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TAN: Speed Limits (was Ten Items or Less at Trader Joe'sIn Sunnyvale)
Around 5/25/2006 4:27 PM, Bob Ward wrote:
> On Wed, 24 May 2006 22:45:02 -0700, Scott en Aztlán > > wrote: > >> [Followups on this tangential thread redirected to rec.autos.driving] >> >> On Wed, 24 May 2006 04:36:54 +0000 (UTC), (Don >> Klipstein) wrote: >> >>> Slower vehicles as a result sped up enough to improve speed consistency. >> >> Clearly a good thing! >> >>> In fact, my personal top speed record in the right lane of that stretch >>> of road and sustained for a mile occurred when the posted limit in that >>> stretch of that road was 55 MPH, and I did not go any faster (peak nor >>> average for a month nor for a year) in that stretch of that road not even >>> by 1 MPH after the posted speed limit there was increased by 10 MPH. >> >> This is starting to sound like a word problem. >> >> So you're saying you normally drive at the 85th percentile speed for >> that stretch of road, and that raising the limit didn't affect your >> typical speeds at all? > > > On the other hand, it could mean that 85% of the drivers on that > stretch of highway are idiots. But who cares, as long as they're safe idiots? Remember, one of the criteria of the 85th percentile method (aside from the obvious) is that there should be no unusual pattern of collisions to justify a lower limit. -- ~/Garth |"I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. Almgren | I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. ******* | And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant." for secure mail info) --H.L. Mencken (1880-1956) |
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