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The answer, Alex, is to stick a great big pointy spear on the steering wheel and have it pointing directly at the driver's heart. (It has already been demonstrated that air bags, although they save more lives, also cause more accidents because driver's factor them into their risk-of-death calculations when doing something stupid. It really is basic economics. Moral hazard, and all that...)
I'm afraid you just will never din it into the majority of the population that driving is a privilege and not a right. I see people who have had strokes trying to get their licence back, and the argument that they might pose a risk to others just doesn't wash. Alcoholics are the same. Young people, old people — so many just don't give a rat's what might happen to perfect strangers. All that is important is having the right to drive insanely fast whenever they feel like it. How depressing...
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