I Can’t Drive 85

[cpzilliacus]

Slate Magazine: I Can't Drive 85 - Do higher speed limits cause more car accidents?

The Texas Department of Transportation is debating whether to increase the speed limit along a 41-mile length of road between San Antonio and Austin to 85 miles per hour. If they agree to the boost, this stretch of State Highway 130 would host the highest speed limit in the country and the second highest in the world. Do higher speed limits cause more car accidents?

[agentsteel53]

don't read the comments.  far too many people defending left-lane hogs.

[cpzilliacus]

don't read the comments.  far too many people defending left-lane hogs.

Nestoring (named after the  late John Nestor, M.D., who said in a letter to the Editor of the Washington Post that he used to deliberately set his cruise control on 55 MPH and drive in the left lane of the Capital Beltway of Md. and Va.) should be punishable by law - and the punishment should be as miserable as allowed under the U.S. Constitution.

Supposedly Nestor's letter generated more paper Letters to the Editor of the Post than any other single issue in the history of the newspaper.

[agentsteel53]

John Nestor, M.D.

from the Wikipedia article:

In 1972 he had been transferred out of FDA's cardio-renal-pulmonary unit because that division "had approved no new chemical entities ... from 1968 to 1972, an experience that contrasted with the experience of every other medical modern nation and with the experience of other divisions of the FDA.

our tax dollars at work.

[texaskdog]

If you think 85 is too dangerous, don't drive on it!  So tired of slowpokes poking around in the left lane.