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Title: Is Slower “Safer”?
Source: Eric Peters Autos
URL Source: https://ericpetersautos.com/2017/04/27/is-slower-safer/
Published: Apr 27, 2017
Author: Eric
Post Date: 2017-04-28 05:03:56 by Deckard
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Views: 627
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The mantra is that Slow is Safe. But Slow is often also oblivious – and sloppy.

Which tends to be dangerous, the opposite of safe.

The priests – and priestesses, more often – of The Safety Cult have not noticed.

The other day, I rolled up behind a car descending a mountain pass. The speed limit is 55 – the car was moping along at about 38 MPH. No, moping isn’t exactly the right word. It was randomly sashaying left then right, onto the shoulder – then across the double yellow.

But well below the The Speed Limit.

By Clover Standards, the person behind the wheel was thus, ipso facto, a Safe Driver.

Exceeding The Speed Limit is a kind of original sin within the Safety Cult. It must be obeyed, rigidly and reflexively. But otherwise? Not to worry!

Drivers like this one are largely immune from cops and tickets.

Certainly from a drunk driving ticket.

Just as some animals are more equal than others, some forms of impairment are regarded as less objectionable than others – by the law, at least.

Worst case, this Clover – and all the countless other Clovers just like him – might get pulled over and be issued a ticket for . . . something.

Failure to maintain control, crossing the double yellow. But nothing serious. Not on par with a drunk driving ticket. Which by the way, you don’t get a ticket for.

You get taken to jail. 

Then you go to court – where you face consequences that go beyond the merely financial.

Even if you didn’t cross the double yellow or drive all over the shoulder. Indeed, your driving can be faultless and you will still go to jail simply because a certain arbitrary amount of alcohol was detected in your bloodstream via a breath test. The fact that you were in control of your car – assuming you were – cuts no ice.

At all.

But this Clover can wander without worry. Three thousand-ish pounds of steel and glass sloshing around the road but hey, he isn’t drunk.

 

Lord help any pedestrians or bicyclists who might happen to be occupying the shoulder at the same time as the sober Clover. Or any cars coming up the mountain, in the opposite lane – when a fourth to a third of Clover’s car is across the double yellow in a blind curve.

In the event of a wreck – even if some innocent person is killed as a result – it is probable that it will be treated as an “accident” – you know, like a tree falling over on your house during a thunderstorm, something over which you had no control. The Wandering Clover will rarely be dealt with as severely as a person who did the same thing but whose impairment was caused by alcohol.

On the other hand, maybe this Clover was just sleepy.

Driving at slow speeds will do that – especially if you have a long way to drive. There is not much to do as far as driving. You’re pretty much just sitting there. Especially in a modern car – at yesterday’s speed limits. 

It is 2017 – but speed limits are pretty much what they were in 1970. Back then, 70 felt like 70. Today it feels like 50. But speed limits haven’t adjusted upward to take into account that even if drivers are no better today than they were in 1970, the cars are.

A 2017 model year anything at 70 is like a 1970 model at 50.

One tends to  get  . . . bored.

So people tend to do other things. They text. They look around at the pretty scenery. They tap the apps. And wander all over.

Arguably, driving faster is safer. Because when you’re driving fast, you have to pay attention. You can’t Zone Out or text or fiddle with the touchscreen and tap the apps.

Not for very long, anyhow.

Driving  – safe driving – ought to be an active and challenging thing. Not a passive and narcoleptic thing.

But fast driving affronts The Cult, no matter how safely done. It’s a crazy thing. A fast driver who drives expertly ought to be praised and admired rather than excoriated and abused. But then, we are viewing things from the wrong perspective.

What’s desired is not competence nor independence of any kind. Alertness being a function of both things; our brains constantly engaged, assimilating data and taking action. As in school, as everywhere else, that is not desired.

What is desired is passivity and torpor. The somnolence and stupefaction of a cow standing in a field, flies alighting on its eyes – the cow too indifferent to even blink.

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#1. To: Deckard (#0)

I think Montana found that accident fatalities increased when speed limits were changed from an open ended "reasonable and safe" to a fixed 55 MPH or whatever it was.

This statistic didn't necessarily mean accidents dropped, but that accident fatalities did drop.

Theories:

Slower speeds gave a false sense of safety, so people were less likely to use seatbelts.

In Montana, the long limited access highways were indeed more boring to drive on at slower speeds, making people nod off.

Slower speeds means it takes more time to reach your destination, increasing the possibility of falling asleep at the wheel just due to time in the car.

In Ecuador there is much less road regulation, and the social effect of that is that driving norms are established by the drivers themselves. Intersections without stop signs develop a socially recognized right of way for one of the streets and all drivers respect it. Left turns on Red are acceptable at some intersections (not all) if the turn has no dedicated turn lane or left turn traffic light (or sometimes even if it does), and if it's not done, traffic backs up. Speeding tickets are rarely enforced, but instead there are lots of speed bumps all through every town, and always around schools.

The assumption in the USA is that without lots of restrictive signs and police enforcement of road regulations, all hell would break loose on the highways. But the reality is that without those items, drivers would generally develop a heightened sense of caution and responsibility as they are less likely to trust other drivers or road conditions. In fact, lots of regulation can make people more confident of safety which can actually increase accidents.

Of course there will always be accidents regardless of how much or how little traffic regulation there is, but it is possible for minimal traffic regulation to be adopted reasonably safely by any society.

Pinguinite  posted on  2017-04-28   5:42:48 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#2. To: Deckard (#0) (Edited)

Is Slower “Safer”?

Absolutely! Just ask any weed smoker. Why….there was even a study conducted to prove this. A provider of free online auto insurance quotes says it has conducted a study that concludes marijuana users are safe drives. His study shows: Weed Smokers are Slower, Safer Drivers. OMG! Is there no end to what marijuana can cure or improve?

Manhattan-based 4AutoInsuranceQuote.com says its study “seeks to dispel the thought that ‘driving while stoned’ is dangerous.”

“What law enforcement agencies and insurers do not understand is that driving while high is actually a safe activity,” says James Shaffer, chief executive officer of the national auto-quote provider, in a statement.

Marijuana users may get into fewer accidents than other drivers, says the study, which looked at data on accidents, traffic violations and insurance prices. The only significant effect of smoking marijuana may be slower driving.

“Marijuana users often say that when they are high, they feel like they are driving 80 mph but actually are only going 30 mph,” says Shaffer. The opposite is true for drunk drivers, he adds. There are less traffic fatalities and fewer accidents in states where medical marijuana use is legal, Shaffer’s company concludes.

“This is what makes alcohol dangerous behind the wheel and marijuana safe,” Shaffer says.

Shaffer says marijuana users could see lower insurance rates if smoking the drug and driving was accepted. In the meantime, he says, “the key to safer driving is to use marijuana, but do it under wraps.”

The study by 4AutoInsuranceQuotes.org references other studies, including one done in 1983 by the National Highway Transportation Safety Administration that found marijuana smokers to be slower drivers, the online quote service says.

Another study by the NHTSA in the Netherlands found marijuana users drove straight. A study in Australia concluded the drug users were more likely to maintain a consistent speed and less likely to pass other vehicles.

While there is plenty of research from multiple countries found via the Internet to support Shaffer’s claims, many other studies have found smoking pot and driving to be a bad idea.

A study released in the British Medical Journal earlier this year says those who smoke marijuana and drive within a few hours are nearly twice as likely to get into an accident as a sober driver.

The conclusion was made by researchers at Dalhousie University in Nova Scotia, Canada after looking at nine studies of more than 49,000 drivers who had been treated for serious injuries after a crash.

Evidence from real and simulated driving studies say a driver’s attentiveness, perception of time and speed, and ability to draw on information obtained from past experiences can be negatively affected by marijuana use, according to the National Institute on Drug Abuse.

Marijuana use is surpassing alcohol use among teen drivers, according to a recent study of 2,294 high school juniors and seniors conducted by Liberty Mutual Insurance and Students Against Destructive Decisions.

Nearly 20 percent of teen drivers reported having driven under the influence of marijuana in the recent survey. About 36 percent of these teens said the drug presented no distraction to their driving.

http://www.propertycasualty360.com/2012/04/09/study-weed-smokers-are-slower- safer-drivers

There you go, folks. Light ‘em up, slow down and live longer….if you believe this shit.

Gatlin  posted on  2017-04-28   7:07:47 ET  (1 image) Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#3. To: Gatlin (#2)

Is Slower “Safer”?

Yes.

Tooconservative  posted on  2017-04-28   7:51:51 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


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