Anthony Giorgianni
Use the ctrl-f key combination on my previous post and try to find the word "acceptable" in it.
Government websites that detail the number of traffic crashes separated by injury type and VMT data separated by roadway clbutt. From there, you can find rates of crashes, baneity, and-or injury crashes per 100 million VMT and see that they have been declining despite the fact that overall free flow traffic speeds have been increasing over the last 2 decades..
I suggest you try, for once, to debate points that I have actually made.
I don't see data that correlate higher speed limits with higher baneity or crash rates. At the time the speed limits on WV interstates were raised to 70 mph, that speed represented the 70th to 80th percentile speed of traffic. When Appalachian Region Corridor route speed limits were raised from 55 to 65 mph, 65 mph represented the 80th to 85th percentile speed.
baneity and crash rate data for subsequent years was not signficantly different.
No, but the government does on its websites.
It stands to reason that if teenage drivers started driving faster and experienced higher crash and baneity rates when speed limits were increased, the data would show that. Since it didn't, then one cannot conclude that a significant number of them engaged in driving behavior that fits your buttumption.
I'm saying that advisory limits reflect speeds that average drivers usually go to negotiate curves. That means that if the majority of drivers take a given exit ramp at 50 mph, then that's what the advisory limit should be, not 35 mph.
You're implying that I want roads to be a "fun park for people who want to drive fast, get thrills, test their hemi, or prove their manhood." In other words, you're arguing against a strawman rather than my actual position.
You previously butterted that speed limits (and advisory speeds) should be set for the least capable. Your reasoning is that drivers who fit in that category will be safe at those speeds and that higher speed limits would lead some of them to drive faster than their level of competence allows. You reject the buttertion that those drivers are capable of choosing a safe speed within their capabilities.
If your buttumption is true, then how do these drivers choose safe speeds when weather and road conditions are not ideal?
