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Worst average encountered highway velocity

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 March 2020

Jennifer Switkes and
Randall Swift
Jennifer Switkes
Affiliation:
California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, 3801 West Temple Avenue, Pomona, CA 91768USA, e-mails: jmswitkes@cpp.edu; rjswift@cpp.edu
Randall Swift
Affiliation:
California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, 3801 West Temple Avenue, Pomona, CA 91768USA, e-mails: jmswitkes@cpp.edu; rjswift@cpp.edu
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A driver’s estimate of the average velocity of vehicles on a highway is biased by the driver’s sampling of those vehicles that pass the driver or are passed by the driver. Surprisingly, the magnitude of the bias does not head towards infinity as the driver’s speed heads towards infinity. Here, we explore these interesting facts.

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The Mathematical Gazette , Volume 104 , Issue 559 , March 2020, pp. 12 - 19
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© Mathematical Association 2020

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