On 31/05/2010 2:14 AM, Boris Liberman wrote:
Bob, it is not black/white scenario like you seem to be trying to paint it. I am thinking that "self-imposed" is the keyword here. If a state can protect you from somebody *else's* stupidity (because, pardon my bluntness, you're not omniscient or omnipotent) and do so for $10 per car or $10 per motorcycle, they might as well go on and do it.
So Boris, how is forcing me to spend an extra couple of hundred dollars or so on a new vehicle for a baby seat monitor that will never be used going to protect me from someone else's stupidity? How is someone doing a shake and bake on their infant by locking them in a car going to harm me personally?
When people toss numbers around like $10.00/ vehicle, they are blowing smoke out their ass. When our government mandated daytime headlight use, and forced manufacturers to put a device into vehicles that forced the headlights on whenever the car was put in gear, it may have only been a $10.00 component, but the cost to the consumer was a couple of hundred dollars per car according to the Canadian Automobile Association at the time the legislation was passed.
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