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Life in the Far Left Lane
By Eric Peters, Automotive Columnist I think the Fluoride in the water has done its thing… Almost every time I go out, I come up on a car that’s doing either just barely the limit and often several MPH below it. The typical offender also likes to slow down and speed up for no apparent […]
Asking The Right Question
By John Carr, NMA Massachusetts Activist Often in science you want to measure something you can’t look at directly. You might read in the paper that scientists have measured the temperature thousands or millions of years ago. They haven’t. They have measured something in the present day, say the ratio of two isotopes of oxygen […]
Is Speeding Ever Appropriate?
By Eric Peters, Automotive Columnist On any given road, at any given time, the posted speed limit might be too fast for current conditions — or unrealistically low. An interstate highway built in the 1950s for safe travel at speeds of 70-75 mph but with a posted maximum of 65 mph today is arguably underposted. […]
Which Commute Is More Dangerous: Morning Or Evening?
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) has some interesting stats available to the public through their Fatality Analysis Reporting System. (We’ve done other articles using data from this system: here and here.) One of the statistics they keep is the number of crashes during each hour of the day. We decided it would be […]
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