I note that both Solomon and Cirillo noted the dangers of intersections and slowing or stopped traffic, thus agreeing with the same data from Maxwell Halsey and other highway safety researchers from over 50 years ago. Which brings to mind the question: Why do they have to keep doing the same research and coming to the same conclusions over and over? Do they not know that this prior research exists? And once the research is done, WHY DO THEY IGNORE IT? I know precisely why: THEY DON"T WANT TO BELIEVE IT! It would give them no excuse for more traffic laws, stop signs, and speeding tickets!
I recall a study done by some bright young doctors back around 1980 which indicated that people with sudden unexplained fatigue were at a high risk of having a heart attack in the next few weeks. They thought they had discovered something new. I recalled that, back in 1968, a Doctor Nixon had reported the exact same findings in The Lancet, a British medical journal. It's apparent that everybody thinks history begins the year they were born and that nothing important ever occurred before they thought of it.
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