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A Psychological Speed Limit
2014-08-17 20:13:27| AutomotiveDigest.com - Automotive Industry News
On average, vehicles seriously injure or kill someone in New York every two hours; last year, 173 pedestrians were killed. Last week Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo signed a bill allowing New York City to enact a citywide default speed limit of 25 miles per hour as part of its Vision Zero campaign to reduce traffic deaths to nil. When the speed at which a car strikes a pedestrian rises a mere 10 m.p.h. to 40 m.p.h. from 30 the chance of the pedestrians dying rises to 85 percent from 45. The real question is not absolute speed but appropriate speed. READ MORE The Article A Psychological Speed Limit appeared first on Automotive Digest.
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