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GRAND RAPIDS, MI
Recall the last time you drove down I-96 between Grand Rapids and Lansing, or any freeway between metro areas for that matter. You, a law-abiding citizen, set your cruise control at 70 mph for the drive ahead.
As the city faded in your rearview mirror, your fellow motorists started zipping right by at speeds clearly in excess of 70 mph. And it persisted, you noticed, all the way through the ubiquitous, rolling farmlands around you, until you arrived.
Those speed demons, you thought, created such dangerous driving conditions, you could just spit. But, according to one Michigan State Police traffic expert, you’d be wrong.
You, the 70-mph driver, were actually the more unsafe driver.
...According to literature from the MSP’s Office of Highway Safety Planning, safe and realistic speed limits are set by examining the speed at which 85 percent of drivers are cruising...
More here.
Recall the last time you drove down I-96 between Grand Rapids and Lansing, or any freeway between metro areas for that matter. You, a law-abiding citizen, set your cruise control at 70 mph for the drive ahead.
As the city faded in your rearview mirror, your fellow motorists started zipping right by at speeds clearly in excess of 70 mph. And it persisted, you noticed, all the way through the ubiquitous, rolling farmlands around you, until you arrived.
Those speed demons, you thought, created such dangerous driving conditions, you could just spit. But, according to one Michigan State Police traffic expert, you’d be wrong.
You, the 70-mph driver, were actually the more unsafe driver.
...According to literature from the MSP’s Office of Highway Safety Planning, safe and realistic speed limits are set by examining the speed at which 85 percent of drivers are cruising...
More here.
