By 2018 all new cars must have rear view cameras, for safety. Eric Peters notes this is due to cars being less safe, due to safety requirements. Funny that.
But those putative reasons are sheer nonsense. this is how it works: a camera vendor kicks into a campaign, and the regulators push through new requirements for the campaign contributors products. Ka-ching. When you have a system of State Owned Enterprises, as we do in USA, this is how things work.
Safety margins get spent. ABS gave people a sense of security that offered them the opportunity to take more risks. Result, zero safety improvement.
Should we just let people run over kids? No, how about people learn how to drive? You want to avoid running over kids? Kids play in driveways. A car parked nose in the garage goes unnoticed as it just sits there. someone eventually gets in, backs up on unsuspecting Susie, and disaster.
When you show up arriving at the house, everyone sees something new on the scene, a car just showed up, even little Susie is cautious about this new element on the scene. She runs to the sidewalk.
Now, if you know how to drive a car, you BACK into the garage, so it is facing out. You back in when everyone is ever so alert. And then too, the trunk loaded with groceries is facing the communicating door to the house.
Ands when you are leaving, you are facing out with a clear forward view.
We do not need another $500 safety margin that will get spent. We simply need insurance companies stating what accidents they will cover, and will not, such as not cover drivers who are backing out of their driveway.
Problem solved.
We don't need regulators, we need free market insurance companies, something we lost about 60 years ago.
Feel free to forward this by email to three of your friends.
But those putative reasons are sheer nonsense. this is how it works: a camera vendor kicks into a campaign, and the regulators push through new requirements for the campaign contributors products. Ka-ching. When you have a system of State Owned Enterprises, as we do in USA, this is how things work.
Safety margins get spent. ABS gave people a sense of security that offered them the opportunity to take more risks. Result, zero safety improvement.
Should we just let people run over kids? No, how about people learn how to drive? You want to avoid running over kids? Kids play in driveways. A car parked nose in the garage goes unnoticed as it just sits there. someone eventually gets in, backs up on unsuspecting Susie, and disaster.
When you show up arriving at the house, everyone sees something new on the scene, a car just showed up, even little Susie is cautious about this new element on the scene. She runs to the sidewalk.
Now, if you know how to drive a car, you BACK into the garage, so it is facing out. You back in when everyone is ever so alert. And then too, the trunk loaded with groceries is facing the communicating door to the house.
Ands when you are leaving, you are facing out with a clear forward view.
We do not need another $500 safety margin that will get spent. We simply need insurance companies stating what accidents they will cover, and will not, such as not cover drivers who are backing out of their driveway.
Problem solved.
We don't need regulators, we need free market insurance companies, something we lost about 60 years ago.
Feel free to forward this by email to three of your friends.
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See:
http://rt.com/news/ebola-virus-outbreak-guinea-941/
Regarding gov. regulations, FDA, patents, big business, - all of this stuff run amok can lead to death. Here is an interesting comment on an article on the ebola outbreak in Africa (I don't know if it's true or not, though - So there is a cure for ebola?):
"Ebola is a viral hemorrhagic fever, scurvy is also a hemorrhagic fever characterised by low or non existent concentrations of vitamin C in the blood. Check Vitamin C concentration in blood , I bet it is almost 0, normal is 0.4 - 1.5 mg/dl. Cure: dose with sodium ascorbate by injection at a rate of 180 grams per 24 hours. Survival rate will be high. Woops, wait a minute Vitamin C is non-patentable , very low profits for the drug companies so we had better try something else. Strange how laymen know the cure but the doctors don't."
The last comment makes me wonder about all of the other medical therapies that actually work to cure diseases, but are kept hidden, intentionally or maybe not, just because some big drug company can't make money off of it. Very sad and disturbing.
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