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Default Totally OT - Highway Question - Is 100 Metres Enough

dennis@home wrote:


http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/85-mph/?

What's the significance of 85 mph?


1.5 x the energy if you crash?
1.5 x the stopping distance at 70 mph?


Same energy, since that is the speed the bulk of the traffic is moving
at now anyway.

Personally I would go for unlimited on decent sections of motorway.

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John.

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