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Re: I am not convinced... Posted by Ari [Email] (#2847) [Profile/Gallery] (more from Ari) on Wed, 2 Feb 2005 11:29:24 In Reply to: I am not convinced..., Nathaniel, Wed, 2 Feb 2005 10:45:45 Members do not see ads below this line. - Help Keep This Site Online - Signup |
I think there are two parts to limiting the number of kids in a car-
(1) logical one - Kids tend to egg each other on. The theory is that if there is more than one kid in the car, the driver may do stupid stuff to either show off, or on a dare.
(2) 'From the gut' reason - How many times do you read about three or four kids all killed in a high-speed crash? Somehow, this is more than a tragedy than a single death. I guess we have a mental threshold. So if you ban more than one kid in a car, you won't have any single-car/multiple death 'tragedies.'
An example of this logic - many years ago a commercial plane crashed, and four people from my company on that plane were killed. The company then issued a rule that no more than 3 people from the company could fly together. The reasonable part was not to lose an entire department in one crash. But why 3? If only 3 were killed, would they have set the max to 2? What if only one was killed? We couldn't fly? Pretty poor attitude for a major aerospace company. A few years later they lifted the rule, as it made travel arrangements a nightmare.
I don't accept the cell phone risk, because the cell phone user is not only a risk to themselves, they're a risk to everyone else on the road, and near the road not protected by stout structure. I think there is no such thing as safe cell phone use by a driver. Period.
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