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As someone once said--I forget who--if you put a giant metal spike on the steering wheel, pointing straight at the driver's heart--unsafe driving will plummet.
by jonnycomputer 3y ago
As someone once said--I forget who--if you put a giant metal spike on the steering wheel, pointing straight at the driver's heart--unsafe driving will plummet.
I mean, that's the same attitude. There is a truth to it, but only if you don't get carried away.
- zirgs 3y agoMotorcycle riding is basically that, but motorcyclists still ride like crazy. They do wheelies on public roads, exceed the speed limit by 50 km/h or more, ignore red lights, filter through moving traffic and so on. The fact that their vehicle has 0 safety features doesn't make them ride more carefully. It's the opposite.
- 123pie123 3y agofrom my very limited experience with people who ride motocyles, they love the risks involve. Otherwise they'd not bother riding a motocyle
- MattPalmer1086 3y agoI used to ride one (before I had a kid), and I was generally a pretty careful rider. After I took my license exam, the instructor sat me down and told me every stupid thing I had done in great detail. He then said "I'm sorry to have to tell you this, but you passed. But if you keep riding like that, you will be another road statistic.". I got the point. Anyway, despite becoming careful, I still loved riding it. It is way more physical than driving a car and that was pleasurable in itself. But there are indeed a lot of completely crazy bike riders out there.
- lucianbr 3y agoJeremy Clarkson. Obviously it was meant as a joke. I can't believe people take this sort of thing seriously, it would require having no life experience at all.
- jonnycomputer 3y agoOther poster referred me to this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordon_Tullock#Tullock's_spike https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordon_Tullock#Tullock's_spike I think I probably heard it from an economist colleague of mine, who knew of Tullock's thought experiment.
- tomeon 3y agoAttributed to economist Gordon Tullock: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordon_Tullock#Tullock's_spike https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordon_Tullock#Tullock's_spike
- jonnycomputer 3y agoI'm pretty sure I heard it first from a libertarian leaning experimental economist colleague. So checks out.