Proof Positive Government Regulations Work. Something Simple for All

[Stuart G]

Government Regulations on Cars and Highways...

USA Today, Online edition

U.S. traffic deaths in 2010 fall to lowest level ever recorded
April 1, 2011

http://content.usatoday.com/communities/ondeadline/post/2011/04/us-traffic-deaths-in-2010-fall-to-lowest-level-ever-recorded/1


The number and rate of traffic fatalities in 2010 fell to the lowest level ever recorded, the U.S. Department of Transportation reports.

According to early projections from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, the 32,788 fatalities in 2010 marked a 3% drop from 2009.

In addition, the rate of 1.09 deaths per 100 million miles of vehicle travel is also the lowest since 1949, when such records were first compiled.

The latest figure is a 25% drop from 2005, when 43,510 deaths were recorded.


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Increased use of seatbelts, safty features on cars, safer highways paid mostly by the federal government and less driving.
But the number of cars in 1949 was far less then today, and the number of miles driven is several times what was 1949. So, this is an incredible improvement. Due in a major part to government rules and regulations. Read em and weep Pukes.

[Scuba]

1. Further, there have been fewer reports of children's pajamas burning. n/t

[Stuart G]

2. Not sure I understand the comment. but

I remember when seat belts were first proposed, people wouldn't use them. Too confining. Eventually they were mandated in
cars, and after a while, people began to use them. It took time.
.. Thousands of lives have been saved.

[Scuba]

3. Some years ago there was big hoopla over flammable PJ's for kids....

... and the "nanny state" outlawed the use of flammable materials in PJ's. You know, ruining competition and hamstringing bidness with all those regulations.

Better to let kids burn that cut into corporate profits.











sarcasm thingy

[hfojvt]

4. I still hate the mandatory seatbelt laws