Outline of My Tenth Oral Presentation
Speeding: How Bad Is It?
This is a presentation of Road Rage and Aggressive Driving, Dr.
Leon James & Dr. Diane Nahl, Prometheus Books, 2000, Pages 236-252
By Justin Golder
Instructions for
this oral presentation are found at:
www.soc.hawaii.edu/leonj/leonj/leonpsy22/g22-oral.htm
A. Most drivers admit to going over the speed limit, but vary in how much over they go.
B. Speed limit + X rule
C. Is fixing speed limits a government ploy to tax us further?
II. Traffic Calming
A. The combination of mainly physical measures that reduce the negative effects of motor vehicle use, alter driver behavior and improve conditions for non motorized street users.
B. Traffic calming goals aim to develop indirect methods of influencing the behavior of drivers.
C. Authorities set speed limits according to traffic engineering studies.
III. Electronic Traffic Surveillance
A. Red-light running is the leading cause of urban crashes and annually kills 8000 people and injures 1 million more.
B. Opponents to this do not believe that slowing traffic leads to greater safety; they want speed limits to be “realistic” to what most people are driving.
C. Benefits of this are fewer police officers need for traffic, more pressure on drivers to follow rules, reduce the number and severity of crashes, and avoiding discriminatory treatment of drivers.
Helpful Links:
http://www.trafficcalming.org/
http://www.calccit.org/itsdecision/serv_and_tech/Traffic_Surveillance/surveillance_overview.html