Life (and Death) in the Fast Lane - Freakonomics Blog - NYTimes.com

Life (and Death) in the Fast Lane - Freakonomics Blog - NYTimes.com: "...of course, another dynamic at play here: the thrill of speed and the allure of time savings.None of the papers I’ve seen have calculated the economic benefits we derive from going faster, in large part because they vary so widely. (Benefit of high speed limit to driver on lonely rural highway: potentially large. Benefit to