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On Mon, 21 Jun 2004 09:43:35 GMT, "Richard J."
wrote (more or less): Gawnsoft wrote: On Sun, 20 Jun 2004 20:08:54 GMT, "Richard J." wrote (more or less): Paul Dicken wrote: 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. Are you suggesting that we should abandon seat belts in order that we should drive more safely? .... Well, severity of accident is part of the safety equation. My point was that before seat belts were introduced, there were very many disastrous accidents because many people *didn't* drive safely enough to avoid being thrown through the windscreen. And people drive /less/ safely than that now. It's just that a great deal of the risk has been transferred to others. Overall, driving with belts is safer than it used to be, i.e. it kills fewer people. Is, perhaps counter-intuitively to you, not true. I assume that means "not that"; please write in English. To be exact, it means 'is not equal to'. But your inference in context works perfectly well. I'll continue to use arithmetic and logic symbols in my posts. -- 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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