Um...

WTF is a free market? There is no such thing, a market is just a mechanism created by a series of rules.

Speeds aren’t set to an equivalent level of safety. If your faulty syllogism were correct, there would be no difference in safety between going quickly on a “safe” road and going slowly on another one.

Which Buffy scene to post?

Came here to post exactly this.

That’s not accurate. There is no simple relationship between driving speed and risk, and the fastest roads are statistically the safest.

How about everybody just stays in the right lane except to pass?

Yes. Despite everything, only about 7,000 Americans per year die in car crashes which don’t involve either alcohol (nothing to do with speed) or not wearing a seatbelt (which should just be considered vehicular suicide). That’s over billions of vehicle miles traveled. Turns out that while driving is the riskiest thing…

Except it’s true, as has been proven by virtually every study ever conducted on freeway speeds. They show universally that speed differential, not raw speed, is inversely correlated with safety.

“Speeding-related” is itself a very vague term which doesn’t really mean much, if you look into how the classifications work. Essentially, imagine that every driver on a given stretch of road is going 10 over the speed limit. If one of them gets distracted by a cell phone and veers off the road, it could very well be…

20 over is nothing on a freeway, especially those that still have the double-nickel. 20 over on a side street, on the other hand...

I mean, it’d be no worse than Taste of Chicago. Check out how Long Beach sets up for their race, they keep most streets open until the last second and Shoreline is reopened by Monday morning.

Battery tender!

Or at least that a site called “Lifehacker,” devoted to dumb little tips about how to make your life slightly easier, is providing dumb little tips about how to make your life slightly easier.

I think it’s mostly just the nerves that maybe your bag was left behind. A good reason for airlines to get behind RFID bag tracking...

I’d add one more “tip:” as you point out, hub carriers will prioritize connecting bags. So if you’re flying United or American into O’Hare and terminating, your bags need to wait until they’ve made sure that the connecting bags have made it onto the cart. (I’m talking domestic, now.)

Alissa Walker, welcome back to GMG.

Also appropriate:

With your head down. On your phone. With headphones.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0582391/