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Re:No traffic deaths in Helsinki for a year by chmod775 on Saturday August 02, 2025 @05:02PM (#44771444)
This is about driving in a city: you spend most of your time accelerating, decelerating, and waiting at intersections. 30 vs 50 km/h doesn't make much of a difference - travel time does not scale linearly with it.
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Re:No traffic deaths in Helsinki for a year by AnthonyMouse on Saturday August 02, 2025 @06:06PM (#44772018)
Whether you can hold the maximum as the average doesn't mean there is no proportionality. If you're traveling at 50 km/h and then have to come to a stop and accelerate again your average speed might be 25, but if the maximum speed is 30 then your average speed might be 15.
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