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TED Talk: Gary Lauder
The venture capitalist’s brilliant idea for reducing traffic accidents: a new sign.
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June 13, 2010 by Ted Bredehoeft
This is about the greatest idea of which I've heard. And it should be relatively inexpensive to implement. The possibilities are absolutely positive. Let's get behind this and demand action from our state governments. If they were to rechannel funds for all their crappy programs into this one we might be 100 lives safer this year.
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June 13, 2010 by S. L. Johnson
Be kinder to one another; who would have thunk?
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June 14, 2010 by wilma jackson
to much information and what is all this men ted tslking about why is he complaing about the stop sign that we all must obey
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June 22, 2010 by Providence
I Love all these Movie clips,Good/Bad or Indifference. Brovo : )Keep them Comming.
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July 6, 2010 by Jay Walker
This was a letter to the editor of the ITE Journal about a year ago:
Why no Allway Yields? Most drivers don’t come to a full stop at a Stop sign when there is no one to stop for. There is no reason why they should. They come to a “rolling stop” and treat the Stop sign as a Yield sign. The yield sign makes traffic more fluid, gives less delay and a higher vehicle output from the minor road. It saves time and fuel, reduces exhaust emissions and air pollution. Research found no difference in the safety records of the two devices. Most places in the USA have a paucity of yield signs and a plethora of stop signs and stoplights. There are no allway yields. Earlier editions of the MUTCD have called the stop sign a device that causes "substantial inconvenience to motorists." The underlying philosophy is to stop people in order to save them the inconvenience of slowing down.
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July 19, 2010 by Angie Smythe
So this guy must have come to the UK were " round abouts" are the norm.So you guys can learn something from us.
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