Don't take this as my having a grief with seat belts or good brakes (I have
'em both), but there's a theory here about modern automotive safety devices
and traffic fatalities that some ole trucker's might find interesting.
Risk Homeostasis and the Futility of Protecting People from Themselves
http://www.i2i.org/SuptDocs/Personal%20Freedom/RiskHomeostasis.htm
Basically, [steel dash = more perceived risk = safer driving]
(Or, if we all had 2 gallons of nitro under the dash, would there be as
many traffic accidents?)
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AppliedTheory Communications http://www.appliedtheory.com
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