Going Dutch Going Dutch "Going Dutch" (sometimes written with lower-case dutch) is a term that indicates that each person participating in a paid activity covers their own expenses, rather than any one person in the group defraying the cost for the entire group. The term stems from restaurant dining etiquette in the Western world where each person pays for their meal. It is also called Dutch date, Dutch treat (the oldest form, a pejorative) and doing Dutch. There are two possible senses—each person paying their own expenses, or the entire bill being split (divided evenly) between all participants. In strict usage, "Going
Smeed's law to speed traffic would only lead to more people driving at this "tolerable" speed unless there were any other disincentives against doing so. His hypothesis in relation to road traffic safety has been disputed by several authors, who point out that fatalities per person have decreased, when the "Law" requires that they should increase as long as the number of vehicles per person continues to rise. Smeed's formula is expressed as: or, weighted per capita, where "D" is annual road deaths, "n" is number of registered vehicles, and "p" is population. Smeed published his research for twenty different countries, and,