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Originally Posted by Brazen
Once again, this proves the incompetency of Monash University.
Sure, you may decrease the chance of death by reducing speed, but at the same time you increase the chance of accidents as people concetrate less, become distracted easier and get more frustrated as they drive slower.
Lets pull some numbers out of the air.... So whilst hitting a person at 30kmh compared to 50kmh decreases the chance of death by 90%, you are probably 15 times more likely to have an accident travelling at 30 compared to 50. Therefore fatal accidents will increase! Hence why a lot of the time fatal accidents decrease when speed limits are increased.
Another reason why determining speed limits by simply driving a car into a crash test dummy does not work! It does not take into account driver behaivour or concentration levels.
Although Monash probably scored another government grant or 'research fee' for its findings from Melbourne Council.
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Hmm, you are criticising a University that works with real data and has academics that peer review their work and you have overturned their findings with your own institution of "pull some numbers out of the air" .
Perhaps you(or anyone else) can pull some numbers from somewhere that support your claims rather than just repeating the rhetoric we keep hearing here.