Towards A Non-competitive Motoring System: Unexplored Opportunities For Social, Cultural, Ecological And Economic Progress
Price
Free (open access)
Transaction
Volume
44
Pages
10
Published
1999
Size
1,289 kb
Paper DOI
10.2495/UT990561
Copyright
WIT Press
Author(s)
H.-H. von Winning
Abstract
We face a new situation: in contrast to the first decades of the automobile, future roads and streets worldwide will be congested. We suggest standardized and limited speeds and acceleration with steady traffic flow and without overtaking and competing. This would be one condition for the halving of all traffic damage and saving one third of traffic expense. Enforced by law and by compulsary built- in electronic limiters, non-competitive traffic would provide new possibilities instead of the restrictions of high-speed. New automobile manufacturing design could guarantee another fifty years of market lead. Companies clinging to the racing/touring-concept will lose any importance. Theoretical and empirical studies indicate b
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