James S
Flashlight Enthusiast
HA, the data is in. Raising speed limits above 55 has NOT killed tens of thousands of extra people every year as Mr Nader and so many others predicted when congress allowed states to set their own speed limits. Turns out death rates are down by over 17 percent since the limits were raised. Some would counter that it's because of better and safer cars, but to them I would point out that the limit was raised before SUV's became popular and also before the cellphone! Even taking into account how easy it is to roll your SUV while chatting with your girlfriend, the death rates are still down! Significantly down.
So once more, another prediction of doom and gloom has not only not come to pass, but been proved totally the opposite. unfortunately you wont hear about it on your local news channel as it's just not exciting. (although the wall street journal article I'm about to link to does compare the number of deaths on the highway anyway to the number of deaths in Iraq since the beginning of the war, so it's kind of tying into something newsworthy)
Enjoy reading how you're less likely to die on the highway now than you were then the nanny state had you tooling along at 55 at the Wall Street Journal
So once more, another prediction of doom and gloom has not only not come to pass, but been proved totally the opposite. unfortunately you wont hear about it on your local news channel as it's just not exciting. (although the wall street journal article I'm about to link to does compare the number of deaths on the highway anyway to the number of deaths in Iraq since the beginning of the war, so it's kind of tying into something newsworthy)
Enjoy reading how you're less likely to die on the highway now than you were then the nanny state had you tooling along at 55 at the Wall Street Journal