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echo: aust_avtech
to: David Drummond
from: Rod Speed
date: 1997-03-26 06:32:04
subject: found

PE> Doubling the speed limit will increase the number of deaths,
PE> assuming everything else is held constant.  It's as basic as that.

DD> Educating the drivers would halve the
DD> number of deaths. It's as basic as that.

PE> You don't have any evidence of that, and even
PE> if you did, it doesn't alter my statement.

DD> If drivers were better educated, logic would dictate
DD> that a percentage of them would become better drivers.

Pathetic really.

DD> Logic would also suggest that better drivers would have fewer accidents.

Pathetic really.

DD> Does it follow that fewer accidents would produce fewer deaths?

Pathetic really.

Then there's just the TINY problem with the 'halve'. Pathetic really.
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