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"Bit weird tbh if one of your major "joys" in life is driving so fast you're demonstrably at risk of killing a child, a neighbour, or a pet in your neighbourhood (or colliding head-on with another vehicle full of people in a rural area a long way from first responders).

Libertarians are peculiar."
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    "A very bizarre comment from the Minister of Regulation, describing evidence-based safe speed limits brought in with substantial consultation and the support of emergency services (who get to pick up the pieces) as "scattergun restrictions" that were "forced on communities from Wellington". 

The weirdest claim of all is that driving through communities or rural areas at survivable speeds "drains the joy from life." WTF, dude."
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    "A 2018 graph pulling together the research up until that point, to establish the relative injury and fatality risks at various speeds. It's from a paper by Mackie Research, viewable here https://www.bikeauckland.org.nz/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Mackie-Research-Report_Speed-vs-injury-risk.pdf The key points are that there's a steep rise in fatality risk at 30kmh for vulnerable pedestrians in combination with heavy vehicles (which would include SUVs), and likewise around 60kmh and again at 70kmh for side and head-on collisions. This is the evidence. The current ministers are playing with our lives, for no good reason."
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