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Apparently pedestrians should take personal responsibility but not drivers
“much faster” not “so much faster” and IMO 25% is a sizable difference.
Thanks for the correction. I'll edit it, though i was intending to paraphrase and not provide a direct word for word quote.
It's a bit of a semantic debate at this point as to what constitutes a substantial difference in the context of competing scientific studies, but in a casual conversation.
I was under the impression that the original person did a mistake in the mental math. I'm not trying to critique how people feel about differences in speed.
i am the original person. the point of my comment was to explain why I thought that.
I'm tired and missed that, thank you for the clarification.