ValnaoCars have become so expensive that many Americans are putting off or not buying new cars. The auto industry is worried
It’s all those blasted safety features! In my day we died every weekend, and we turned out fine!
There is a paradox with safety features that is really interesting: the safer you make roads, the more aggressive people drive. Better breaks led to people tailgating more aggressively. Better crumble zones has led to bigger and heavier cars. It’s almost like there is a threshold of risk that people naturally gravitate to and that maybe the best way to improve traffic safety is through education
A professor at my university wrote a book called Navigating Environmental Attitudes, and he titled a chapter, “Educating the Public… and Other Disasters”. TL; DR: It doesn’t work.
That’s why I advocate for a big, metal spike on the steering wheel, pointed at the driver’s chest. (Okay, or designing the roads so that they feel unsafe, so drivers naturally slow down and pay attention.)
That’s why I advocate for a big, metal spike on the steering wheel, pointed at the driver’s chest.
Go back to old enough cars and that spike use to be the steering column. We now have a few different ways so it doesn’t crush/impale you into the seat anymore in a front end collision.