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- From: martin@pharaoh.cyborg.bt.co.uk (Martin Gorman)
- Newsgroups: uk.transport
- Subject: Re: Rear end drivers, etc
- Message-ID: <7958@pharaoh.cyborg.bt.co.uk>
- Date: 27 Jan 93 12:43:30 GMT
- References: <7843@pharaoh.cyborg.bt.co.uk> <1jj346INNi2t@bnsgd245.bnr.co.uk>
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- ianking@nnsgs52 (Ian King) writes:
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- >Speed Freak (ian@pharaoh.cyborg.bt.co.uk) wrote:
- >: you will always be making roads 'safer'. But how safe do want the roads to
- >: be ? Deaths are inevitable and, at a certain level, are an acceptable
- >: price for the contribution to society that the motor car makes. The only
- >: question is, "What is the acceptable death rate ?"
-
- >On railways even one death is unacceptable.
- >
- Hmm... nothing in this life is certain. One can increase/decrease the
- odds, but freak accidents/human errors/machine failures will always
- happen from time to time.
-