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That's fascinating - do you happen to have a source for this? I tried Googling but came up empty.
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That's fascinating - do you happen to have a source for this? I tried Googling but came up empty.
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- mjd 4y agoMachol discusses it in this address he gave at a 1992 sciences conference; it's on page 10. https://icus.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/Machol-Robert-E.-Air-Transport.pdf https://icus.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/Machol-Robert-E.... He says that the calculations they did at the FAA suggested that for each infant saved by requiring a separate ticket, six would have been killed in car crashes. (That's not my original source; it's just the first thing I found.)
- mjd 4y agoHere's a 2002 pediatric journal paper that comes to the same conclusion: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/5457713_Effects_and_Costs_of_Requiring_Child-Restraint_Systems_for_Young_Children_Traveling_on_Commercial_Airplanes/link/552e911d0cf2d4950719b61e/download https://www.researchgate.net/publication/5457713_Effects_and... "Results of this study show that requiring CRSs on airplanes would prevent few airplane crash deaths and might cause an increase in motor vehicle deaths if many families switched to travel by car rather than paying additional fares for their young children. Irrespective of that possibility, the cost of the regulation per death prevented would be highabout $1.3 billion if the price of the round-trip ticket for the young child were $200.These findings suggest that a policy requiring CRSs on airplanes would be a poor use of societal resources."