.drivingdotca’s David Booth: “If speed really does kill, why is driving so much safer in Germany?”:
Last week’s lament that the European Union has voted to implement mandatory speed limiters on all cars produced after 2022 certainly started a dust up in Driving’s comment section. Fortunately, unlike so many forum discussions — anything discussing Tesla comes to mind — the debate of whether preventing cars from ever exceeding speed limits is a good idea was thankfully devoid of the name calling too typical of online discourse these days.
In fact, fewer people did actually perish in car crashes after the reduction from 65. What those let’s-call-them-statisticians conveniently omitted — and this is prime example of how liars use statistics — is that the rate of automotive fatalities had been falling for decades, mainly because collision technology, such as crumple zones, airbags and the like, had evolved.
RELATEDLowering urban speed limits an exercise in futilityMotor Mouth: Speeding will not just be illegal, it’ll be impossibleHere’s another surprising little factoid: According to the European Traffic Safety Council — the very people who voted to impose these speed limiters mentioned last week — 67 per cent of German road deaths occurred on motorways without a speed limit and 33 per cent on stretches with a permanent limit.
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