Also, do not say “Rusty...RUSTY” to a carriage driver on Mackinac Island (or probably any carriage driver, for that matter). They’ve heard it approximately 1.85 million times.

I would just like Netflix to reupload all the old seasons of TG, not just 18 and onwards. I like rewatching them every few years.

Now if they will just put up the entire back catalog. I really want to watch the 70s super car episode.

I have Prime and Netflix, so this is wonderful news.

As a Netflix subscriber who doesn’t get BBC America, this is fantastic news!

Lol, I never said I was unbiased. I just do not buy into the speed kills bullshit.

Yeah, here’s the thing though. Nobody ever really drove 55mph. Nobody drives 60 or 65 either. Regardless of the speed limit, everyone drives 70-75 on the highways. All this talk of speed limits is nonsense, because they’re largely disregarded anyway in favor of what actually feels comfortable. And in modern cars, 70+…

There are not an elevated number of deaths. The chart shows fatal crashes are down significantly. The point of the report is that this guys computer model thinks there should be even fewer deaths. If I was writing a computer model for the insurance companies I’d make it say speed still kills too.

That chart is total deaths, rather than deaths per mile, so what you are probably looking at is just people driving less. 2000 is the .com bust, and 2007 is the world financial crisis. Both of which depressed economic activity and caused people to drive less.

Or maybe have the DMV start doing psychological evaluations on elderly drivers every few years or so. Old people do some scary things behind the wheel, but as far as I know, there’s no real regulation on when they need to stop driving. If you’re gonna regulate when people start driving, you should at least do…

Wait ‘till you see what the NOAA does with data it doesn’t agree with...

This is utter and complete bullshit. Fatalities have dropped precipitously since the speed limit was rescinded, but they’re trying to claim that fatalities would have dropped more had the speed limits remained the same.

Skimmed the paper and I don’t buy the numbers. They didn’t look at actual increases in speed limits, but just increases in the max limit by state and assumed that all roads limits rose similarly. That’s a poor assumption, just because Texas went from 65-85 max speed in the time period does not mean that all of the 40…

That is a great point, that I didn’t even think about. American’s are obsessed with a “higher driving position”, which yes, creates rollovers. Plus cell phone usage.. There are just too many other factors to make the correlation presented in this study.

Dual front airbags became mandatory in September 1998.
People were told to keep kids out of the front seats in the late 90s.
Side airbags became far more common in the mid 2000s.
ABS became much more common
ESC became standard on most trucks and SUVs

All sorts of things - and all of these take a few years to phase in and…

Once again the Insurance Institute for Higher Surcharges decides it would know what the raw number of fatalities would be with the double nickle that was never obeyed in mass. Where the reported effectiveness of enforcement there of was a political fiction. There is absolutely no way they could say what it would have…

Sponsored by VA Department of Traffic Safety.

Considering that vehicle rollover accidents are the most common type of accident involving fatalities, coupled with the absolute explosion of SUV sales since 1993, I’m wondering if raised speed limits are really the cause of elevated numbers of fatal crashes.

One of many valid questions. We see this from the IIHS every single time they try to prop up the “speed kills” myth. There are always exclusions based on “factors” that they’ll name vaguely but won’t their actual math forward. It’s pretty clear up front how much manipulating was done to get the wanted result when the…

Anyone with an IQ over 80 can understand that correlation does not equal causation. Unbelievable. Even if this was valid, it’s not the speed that caused the deaths, it’s the shockingly low standards with which people are allowed to drive and the resulting otherwise avoidable “accidents.” Maybe we should lower the…