Stephen Coleman of the political communications department at Britain's University of Leeds says the event went better than he had hoped.

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One of the few studies to seek an answer, completed in 1996 at Britain's Leeds University, found that drivers are more cost-conscious than had commonly been thought.

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"It's pretty convincing stuff, " commented Piers Forster, professor of climate change at the UK's University of Leeds and a former lead author for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's assessment of factors driving global warming.

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But Dr David Clarke, a professor at Leeds University who's studied young people and road crashes, says this has less to do with driver skill than with attitude and experience.

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