Sense of Speed

SailFree

Perhaps "Cirillo" is the name I was after--my memory had "Cimino" stuck there, which may be why I was never able to find the article again. Thanks much for the link to the article.

I note the article contains, in its "overview" summary pages, some LIES. It says, for example, that "both studies show the lowest accident rates when vehicles were traveling at the mean speed." This is clearly not true for the Cirillo data on the freeways, which matches my recollection of the safest drivers travel 10MPH FASTER than the mean speeds. The Cirillo graph definitely bottoms out at 10MPH over mean.

Thus it would appear the police would get more bang for their buck in highway safety improvement by giving tickets to those going UNDER the speed limit by 10MPH and ignoring those going 10MPH faster.

But that's too fact-and-logic based for politicians who create the laws and for law enforcement which sometimes has no leeway, just following orders, and frequently doesn't really delve into the data.