Car Crashes Kill 40,000 in U.S. Every Year--How come cars aren't banned? (windshield, drivers)

[The Continental]

If cars were outlawed only outlaws would drive

[Drover]

Originally Posted by johnfrisco

How come cars aren't banned?

Are you really this incapable of a simple cost-benefit analysis?

[pinetreecity]

If 40,000 people died every year in plane crashes, train wrecks, or shipwrecks, they would certainly ban passenger travel on all of those. For that matter, I think most people would refuse to take those modes of transportation with or without a ban. Yet, people have no problem driving. I've always wondered about that.

[JordanJP]

Cars aren't banned because they aren't black or concealable.

[GreenGene]

And according to the article, pedestrians account for 13% of those traffic fatalities. Are we supposed to stop walking?

[The Continental]

Comparing cars to any of those is kind of ridiculous.

[texdav]

Originally Posted by pinetreecity

If 40,000 people died every year in plane crashes, train wrecks, or shipwrecks, they would certainly ban passenger travel on all of those. For that matter, I think most people would refuse to take those modes of transportation with or without a ban. Yet, people have no problem driving. I've always wondered about that.

Well at the height of rail travel i this country there were over 10,ooo train wreckes a year. I was watchign a history of rqailroads passenger travel and hasd no idea of the numbers or death rate back then.Alos saw a show on the west that said a cowboys most frequenht casue of early death was being thrown from his horse.Seems that itsa most human behavior that would have to be banned.Maybe a little horse sense would help.

[Linson]

the more valid question is, "why is pot illegal?"

[roger6087]

Cars don't kill people, physics kills.


YouTube - Smart Car Collision Physics

[catman]

Originally Posted by las vegas drunk

I have wondered why bars have parking lots. It doesn't make any sense to me.

Becasue some of the people are too drunk to walk?