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A HERETIC I AM

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17. Inherently flawed study
Fri Feb 1, 2013, 07:11 PM
Feb 2013

During the same time period, decent driver education programs have all but disappeared.

What we need in the US is a driver education system similar to those of Germany and England, where getting a drivers license is tantamount to getting a private pilots license in this country.

The real reason accidents increase is because Americans, by and large are utterly clueless as to how to properly use a high speed, limited access highway.

It's called "Lane Discipline" and Americans sorely lack it.

It isn't the speed itself that causes accidents.

It's the Disparity in speeds between vehicles.

This is 36+ years of operating motor vehicles talking, 23 of those in heavy, commercial tractor trailers.

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