Effectiveness and Impact of Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) Standards (2002) / Chapter Skim
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115 Appendixes
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117 The relationship between fuel economy and highway safety is complex, ambiguous, poorly understood, and not measurable by any known means at the present time. Improving fuel economy could be marginally harmful, beneficial, or have no impact on highway safety.
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118 EFFECTIVENESS AND IMPACT OF CORPORATE AVERAGE FUEL ECONOMY (CAFE) STANDARDS destrian fatalities are most concentrated in dense urban areas, where smaller vehicles predominate.
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APPENDIX A 119 result. Evans (1991, p.
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APPENDIX A 121 among all highway users is approximately zero. Given the history of the debate on this subject, this is a startling result.
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122 EFFECTIVENESS AND IMPACT OF CORPORATE AVERAGE FUEL ECONOMY (CAFE) STANDARDS pole appears more likely for heavier vehicles than for lighter vehicles in front impacts, but not in side impacts.
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APPENDIX A 123 had been known for the last 6. Statistically significant effects of weight were found in 3 of 4 regressions presented, but other variables one might have expected to be statistically significant -- including income, fraction of drivers aged 15–25, consumption of alcohol per person of drinking age, and measures of speed -- were generally not significant.
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124 EFFECTIVENESS AND IMPACT OF CORPORATE AVERAGE FUEL ECONOMY (CAFE) STANDARDS may reduce it.
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