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Article #157Re: Rear end drivers, etc
From: Martin Gorman
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 12:43
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 12:43
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ianking@nnsgs52 (Ian King) writes: >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.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!charon.amdahl.com!amdahl!rtech!sgiblab!spool.mu.edu!agate!netsys!ibmpcug!pipex!unipalm!uknet!axion!pharaoh!martin 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> Organization: British Telecom Lines: 13