JTP wrote:
Based on a quick read, I would tend to agree. Having said that, however, you'd end up with "escalation." Up speed limits now to get safer drivers. Once people get comfortable with the new speed, the effects of the "increasded enodcrine reaction" will be blunted. Then you'd have to raise limits again. (Not sure how long that would take.) The cycle would go on until you reached speed "limits" of super-sonic. Of course, by then maybe we'll actually have jet-cars. (More likely they'll be "human-proof" auto-autos.)
I don't see the downside to this "escalation" you mention
Seriously though, maybe if the speed limits were upped a tad you would have people concentrating on driving and not on their phones, mackup, coffee, 5 course meal, paper, book, changing their soggy iPad, etc.