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Yeah and we should definitely leave deciding the appropriate speed to the drivers. Because, uh, throughput is important, got it. Is safety important? Who knows, but throughput definitely is!



That is what happens now. Most drivers do not cause accidents from speed most of the time. This is a red herring.


Speed is always a contributing cause to a collision. It's pretty simple to understand, if colliding parties are going slower, they would have more time to prevent collision.


If you are going slower you can make up for missing details, missing a brake signal, missing a pedestrian.

Speed is the underlying reason accidents happen. No one is creeping at 2 MPH and just running into things, they have time to stop.

This doesn't even take into consideration that speed results in significantly larger impact (and thus damage to passengers, environment, and vehicles)




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