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MODERATOR'S ADDRESS ~ON SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
Pages 86-87

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... Regulations having to do with crash survivability in automobile accidents may not have included adequate consideration of the associated cost in terms of the additional weight of the vehicle, including both the direct dollar cost of that weight and the reduction in fuel economy due to that additional weight. Emissions regulations have had deleterious effects on fuel economy.
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... For instance, when the highway speed limit was reduced recently to 55 miles per hour, there was a dramatic reduction in the fatality rate. But that reduction occurred primarily in the areas where the speed limit was already below the 65 to 70 mph maximum.
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