bsmall2
> ... as speed increases, care declines. And so, necessarily, do the skills of responsibility. If this were not so, we would not restrict the speed of traffic in residential areas. We know that there is a limit to the capacity of attention, and that the faster we go the less we see. This law applies with equal force to work; the faster we work the less attention we can pay to its details, and the less skill we can apply to it.
#WendellBerry #OnSpeed in #TheUnsettlingOfAmerica p.97
got me thinking of Vanderbilt's Traffic
Jun 8 at 11:32amWeb
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> The faster we drive, the less we see. Hamilton-Baillie suggests that it is more than coincidental that as drivers get above 20 miles per hour, we lose eye contact with pedestrians, while our chances of dying as pedestrians if hit by a car also begin to soar dramatically. As humans with an evolutionary history, we are presumably not meant to move faster than we can run, which tops out at around 20 miles per hour...
#TomVanderbilt in #TrafficBook
#VanderbiltOnSpeed
_ Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do (And What It Says About Us)_