Re: Beware of high tech running amok

In article <13sca41ek4hrld9@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>, Ed White wrote:

> NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO...not that. Where's the sup****t? I'll bet the best
you 
> can trot out is a poorly constructed study from 25 or 40 years ago.
There is 
> no verifiable"proof" that setting the speed limit using the 85th
percentile 
> rule is any better than using the 80th percentile rule or the 90th 

geebus... not this crap again.... 

> never fall into the trap of claiming that speed limits set using the
85th 
> percentile rule are the "safest" speed limits. 

funny, I argue that the 'method' is the best engineering practice for 
safety that we know of.... 

When you come up with a better method let me know. 

> One more thing - how many speed limits are actually set using the 85th 
> percentile rule? I don't mean how many are claimed to be set by the rule
- 
> how many truly are?

Legally, nearly all of them in the state I live in are supposed to be... 
lol. 

 
> C E "Ed" White (yes another Ed who doesn't like the way some people
wor****p 
> the 85th percentile rule) 

What 'rule'? I only know a 'method'.