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Posted by Stephen Bauman on Fri Oct 9 22:14:53 2015, in response to Re: The Benefits of Slower Traffic, Measured in Money and Lives, posted by BrooklynBus on Fri Oct 9 11:53:10 2015. The question to really ask is what were the motives of the authors of the study going into this project?The first paper establishing the statistical relation between pedestrian deaths and severe injuries to vehicle impact speed was written by S. J. Ashton. It was presented at a Society of Automotive Engineers conference in 1980. The author's expressed motive was to spur automobile redesign to make such collisions less deadly. Ashton's model for this motive was the then previous 15 year history since the publication of Nader's "Unsafe at any Speed," that made automobile interiors much safer. The study's conclusions have since been corroborated by many other studies, world wide. One of the more recent studies was one by the AAA Traffic Safety Foundation in 2011. It's the study most frequently referenced because the AAA's political agenda is pro-automobile use. |
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