You know, that is really interesting. Around here some forces are
trying to build a new road. They keep saying there is a problem with the
existing roads -- the roads are "dangerous." But if you look at crash
and death data, the injuries and crashes and fatalities are due to
inattentive driving, tailgating, drunkeness, and other stupid
behaviors. I say, address the stupid behavior with education or actual
law enforcement, and lets see how that works, before spending 10$ of
million$ on a new road. But the politicians just don't seem to get
that, they want to build new roads to accommodate the same bad behaviors.
--R
OK Don wrote:
Speaking of Toyotas and the engineering/construction decisions - you have to
keep all of it in perspective:
"According to various reports, 19 deaths have been associated with Toyota's
gas pedal problem over the past decade. But over the same decade, a total of
21,110 people have been killed in Toyota vehicles, with an additional 1,261
killed in Lexus cars (based on analyzing 1999-2008 fatality data from National
Highway Traffic Safety
Administration<http://www-fars.nhtsa.dot.gov/Main/index.aspx>).
Almost none of these deaths had anything to do with technology, faulty or
otherwise. Almost all of them were the result of driver behavior."
http://www.slate.com/id/2244929/?from=rss
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