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On Sun, 20 Jun 2004 20:08:54 GMT, "Richard J."
wrote (more or less): Paul Dicken wrote: "Just zis Guy, you know?" wrote in message ... Mind-blowing article about the European and Chinese challenges to the received wisdom on traffic planning and calming, arguing that the separation of peds and cars leads to less-safe streets: Now that really /is/ new. Unless you've read JS Dean's 1946 book "Murder Most Foul". Or Bob Davis' "Death On The Streets". Or Mayer Hillman's "One False Move". Guy Mention of Mayer Hillman reminded me of a view he expressed in a meeting I attended. He suggested all car bumpers should be made of glass and drivers seated on them. His view was that standards of driving will go up immediately. ... because people driving in a vulnerable vehicle would drive more safely? There is a big difference between 'more safely' and 'absolutely safely'. People drive less safely with seatbelts than they do without seatbelts == People drive more safely without seatbelts than they do with seatbelts. people never have accidents when driving without a seatbelt. That idea didn't seem to work before seat belts were invented, when occupants used to die by being ejected through the windscreen. Indeed it still happens. We've all read stories of late-night crashes where a carful of young people were killed or injured after they were thrown from their car, presumably because they were too drunk or high to remember to put on their seat belts. You seem to be mixing up 'drive more safely' with 'never have accidents at all', and conflating severity of accident with risk-taking while driving. -- Cheers, Euan Gawnsoft: http://www.gawnsoft.co.sr Symbian/Epoc wiki: http://html.dnsalias.net:1122 Smalltalk links (harvested from comp.lang.smalltalk) http://html.dnsalias.net/gawnsoft/smalltalk |
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