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assuming they have the data, it would be great for them to publish a report of the most dangerous roads. they could even suggest routes that are "safer"

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A great oxymoron to Google if you’re American is the “safety corridors” in your area. That’s the term for highway stretches that have a lot of fatalities.

They’re often indicated on highway signage, which I hate because you’d never intuit the meaning.

Reminds me of "Sanitary Sewer".

Thank you. I had no idea what this signage meant.

And that should result in the roads / intersections being redesigned to make them safer.

The roads that are "safety corridors", at least the ones in California, are rural two-lane, two-way undivided roads where people kill themselves trying to overtake cars that are going 1 MPH slower than them. The only way to redesign these is with K rails down the middle, but the ideal thing to do is mandate speed limiters in cars.

I would expect speed limiters to make overtaking more deadly.

The point is to stop idiots from overtaking.

But it won't do that.

Sure, it'll probably reduce the number of overtakes. While making the ones that happen so much worse.

If they're so much worse that the overtakee is frequently fatally involved the problem will eventually mostly solve itself in a perverse way...

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