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    #61
    Originally posted by rorz View Post
    One thing I don't understand is that we have all these studies on road safety, effects of speed limit reduction, fatique etc. How about a study on how much lowering speed limits and over zealous policing of said speed limits costs the country/economy in lost efficiency and productivity? I don't understand why that isn't an important consideration. We live in one of the largest countries with probably the biggest distances between cities and regional centres and very marginal populations in those regional centres. If anyone should have open speed limits... it's us.
    There have been credible studies done showing increased speed limits either have no effect on accident rates or have actually *reduced* accident rates (ive probably linked/quoted them in previous threads)

    Not surprisingly though, those kind of studies dont get done here....

    Originally posted by Jim
    I feel that rules are important as without rules there is no cheating and cheating is a vital part of drag racing.
    Originally posted by elfturbomax
    What has happened to PF? It seems to be diesel love now days. Maybe the name should be changed to Particulate Forums.
    1UZ+1NZ...

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      #62
      Money. Monash will do one for you, how much have you got to spend?
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        #63
        True, true...

        Originally posted by Jim
        I feel that rules are important as without rules there is no cheating and cheating is a vital part of drag racing.
        Originally posted by elfturbomax
        What has happened to PF? It seems to be diesel love now days. Maybe the name should be changed to Particulate Forums.
        1UZ+1NZ...

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          #64
          Originally posted by UZZ31 View Post
          There have been credible studies done showing increased speed limits either have no effect on accident rates or have actually *reduced* accident rates (ive probably linked/quoted them in previous threads)

          Not surprisingly though, those kind of studies dont get done here....
          Something about some Texas freeway changing their limits to the 85th percentile. Accidents dropped along that stretch the following years afterwards.

          http://alerts.motorists.org/e-newsle...ignal-the-end/
          Originally posted by ahabthearab
          If you're in Amsterdam why the fuck are you even conscious and not in a drug fueled haze bent over with some crackhore hooker jamming a giant black didldo up your arse?

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            #65
            Originally posted by rorz View Post
            Have you been to Germany? Most of the rural highways are open speed limit.

            Almost all of the roads with open speed limits there are directly comparable to our roads here. They're not glass smooth, banked super freeways... they're just normal roads no different to what you would see in Australia... with no speed limit... yet they are safer despite the fact it snows in Germany which realistically should make our stats far better than theirs. But they aren't.

            Do you know what the translation for autobahn is? It's car road. It doesn't refer to some mega highway.
            What's your definition of a rural highway? Because if it's not a posted autobahn, (blue sign, a6, a81 etc) but a dual lane b road, even if it has the sign for no limits, they most certainly are limited.

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              #66
              Originally posted by Chong View Post
              What's your definition of a rural highway? Because if it's not a posted autobahn, (blue sign, a6, a81 etc) but a dual lane b road, even if it has the sign for no limits, they most certainly are limited.
              Exactly. What we class as a rural highway would have a 100km/h limit in Germany.

              Another study that shows that imposing a speed limit (130) on what were once unlimited results in marked reductions in fatalities and serious injuries.

              http://www.etsc.eu/documents/copy_of...0Sheet%201.pdf

              UZZ31 - those studies usually from the USA and mostly relate to high quality freeways that have been raised back upto the pre-55mph limits of 65-75mph. Roughly 110-120km/h

              http://www.scribd.com/doc/59153773/E...ng-of-Vehciles.

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