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Path: num2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!num1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!number.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border3.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!goblin2!goblin1!goblin.stu.neva.ru!txtfeed2.tudelft.nl!tudelft.nl!txtfeed1.tudelft.nl!dedekind.zen.co.uk!zen.net.uk!hamilton.zen.co.uk!shaftesbury.zen.co.uk.POSTED!not-for-mail Message-ID: <4e28218e$0$2531$da0feed9@news.zen.co.uk> From: Nuxx Bar  Newsgroups: uk.rec.cycling Subject: Re: RLJ Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2011 13:54:37 +0100 References: 	<65eb0aac-964c-4c7a-b428-9327c127ba71@dp9g2000vbb.googlegroups.com>				<4e1f4224$0$2536$da0feed9@news.zen.co.uk>	<624712c0-1a07-4836-8b0a-0c2d67bb42a1@fv14g2000vbb.googlegroups.com>	<9893dkFk6mU1@mid.individual.net>	<18ou175kand98fc4b4dq3mjecgb7sfeg9m@4ax.com>		<4e2219d5$0$2485$db0fefd9@news.zen.co.uk> <871uxkagf9.fsf@engine2.aziraphale.homeip.net> Lines: 20 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.7; en-US; rv:1.9.2.18) Gecko/20110616 Thunderbird/3.1.11 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <871uxkagf9.fsf@engine2.aziraphale.homeip.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Organization: Zen Internet NNTP-Posting-Host: dc51a47c.news.zen.co.uk X-Trace: DXC=cX_F]kR^i?;Hf6nZcdIbW>nok4Z\ Nuxx Bar  writes: > >> On 15/07/2011 11:15, Simon Mason wrote: >>> >>> I can confidently say that more than 90% of drivers will exceed the >>> speed limit down this road. > > It's the same with the flashing 30mph signs near our local primary > school. > >> In that case the speed limit is too low, > > A bit like the traffic light in the OP's video was `too red' :-S.

Yep: just cast aside the considerable, accepted research on the 85th percentile. It's all bullshit because it doesn't say what you want it to.

If you think that the speed limit is correct then you think (at least) 90% of car drivers drive recklessly fast, yes?