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Saturday, November 16, 2013

Safer Cars

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is thinking up new ways to make more cars safer. Administrator David Strickland wants auto makers to speed up adoption of safety technologies now found only on expensive cars. These include sensors that detect an impending crash or whether the driver has been drinking. Strickland's call comes as traffic deaths rose for the first time since 2005. He says the panel will decide by year end on how it will encourage the car makers to make the technologies more widely available.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

They need to do away with safety features and let natural selection take its course.

The ones who can't drive will be gone. Maybe then people will pay more attention to their driving and be more safe themselves instead of depending on a machine to do it for them.

Anonymous said...

Notice that nothing was said about the statistics of why the death rate rose. As if the problem would go away by making cars more expensive. Pure idiocy.

Anonymous said...

I think helmets and chest protection would be a good start. You might laugh but I'm being serious!