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WebWord Weblog Posting Posting Date: September 09, 2002 Are Safety Experts Killing Our Kids? (asktog.com) -- "I don't remember kids dying in cars very often when I was a kid, unless, of course, the car was moving at the time. Back then, my only crash protection was my mother's swiftly moving arm." (Mac comments: Does technology sometimes provide a false sense of security ? )
Reader Comments...
Have you heard of "risk homeostasis"? This is the idea that people tend to take more or less the same risks, even when safety technology is introduced: http://i2i.org/Publications/IP/PersonalFreedom/RiskHomeostasis.htm
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