Smeed's Law, named after R. J. Smeed who first proposed the relationship in 1949, is an empirical rule relating traffic fatalities to traffic congestion as measured by the proxy of motor vehicle registrations and country population. Thus increasing traffic volume leads to a decrease in accidents per vehicle. It was posited after an analysis of figures from a number of countries over several decades.
and here is the formula:
Obviously some kind of code to the reason behind Smeed's awesomeness.
For more information visit http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smeed%27s_law
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