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Traffic engineers record how fast vehicles are traveling on a road, determine the speed that 85 percent of drivers are traveling at or below, then set the new speed limit by rounding from that speed to the nearest 5 mph increment.
Designed to Fail | National Association of City Transportation Officials
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As for you and your brothers, rare was the day when you thought about the place suspended below the known world, for there were daily concerns that pulled you in every direction but inward.
The Spear Cuts Through Water
Simon Jimenez
The standard way to envision this is to imagine yourself at the center of a large carousel and tossing a ball to someone positioned on the edge. By the time the ball gets to the perimeter, the target person has moved on and the ball passes behind him. From his perspective, it looks as if it has curved away from him. That is the Coriolis effect, and it is what gives weather systems their curl and sends hurricanes spinning off like tops.
A Short History of Nearly Everything
Bill Bryson
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