> We estimate that these laws [mandating safety seats] prevented fatalities of 57 children in car crashes in 2017 but reduced total births by 8,000 that year and have decreased the total by 145,000 since 1980.
I also question the idea that safety regulations (let's call them that) are the result of a class of people who have "so few real problems they stop minding their business and mind other's business." I get the idea, but couldn't the high cost of obstetrics and child car seat requirements be due to the wishes and decisions of people outside of this supposed class?
Of course, but life is just so easier when you can attribute every problem to an imaginary enemy.
Car dependency and castle doctrine is essential in a low trust society with a legal system that puts violent offenders right back on the street.
Driving is more dangerous, and it's not even close. For example, in NYC you're over 100x more likely to die in a car on the roads above the subway than on the subway.
Only the most naive of the naive can believe being a safe driver means they won't die in a car wreck.
fixing homelessness doesn't make me money
Perhaps the subway itself isn't the problem...