Figures don't lie, but liars figure

[unixronin]

Interesting, if brief, reading on highway speed limits from the WSJ:

We now have 10 years of evidence proving that the only "assault" was on the sanctity of the truth.  The nearby table shows that the death, injury and crash rates have fallen sharply since 1995.  Per mile traveled, there were about 5,000 fewer deaths and almost one million fewer injuries in 2005 than in the mid-1990s.  This is all the more remarkable given that a dozen years ago Americans lacked today's distraction of driving while also talking on their cell phones.

(Emphasis mine.)

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[ithildae.livejournal.com]

Part of the lower fatality rate in Europe is the intensive training and cost to be able to get a license to drive. In Germany, it costs about $2,000.00 american dollars to get a drivers license (Or did about eight years ago when I was talking to Christoph about getting his license.) It also took over nine months of training and classes. Americans would go nuts if we tried to impose those kinds of fees on driving (and the same level of mastery on our drivers.)