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jim rozen wrote:

In article , Ed Huntress says...

It's a dilemma, and focusing only on your *own* risks and rewards misses the
point of the safety issue: that your driving risk, most of the time,
translates into someone else's driving risk. You take the risk, and they
take the consequences.

The auto manufacturers could even out the score by disabling the
seatbelts and airbags when the cell phone is in use!

It all gets back to my plan for safer, more polite roadways. Simply
place the driver's seat in front of the front bumper.

If all the passengers had seatbelts/airbags and the driver didn't,
accidents would go down. When I turned 16 many decades ago there were
no airbags and usually no insurance, and not that many 16yos totaled the
family car. Today I would bet there is a totaled car for every 16 yo
driver; maybe some are safe but others total multiple cars. My 2nd
daughter totaled my car and took off one of the letters from the name to
put on her neclace to brag about it. She has never driven any car in
this family since.

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