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To put that risk in some perspective, about 500 kids age 0 to 4 drown each year in residential swimming pools, which are legal and even customary to keep around one's house; that's twice as many as the fatal gun accidents for all kids age 0 to 14, even though pools are much less common than guns.
When it was built in 1864 it helped drastically reduce the number of shipping accidents and shipwrecks, but it was unpopular with the native people who relied on lucrative salvage activities to make a living.
It concerns, of course, the eroticism of automobile accidents.
It may not be sexy or simple, but setting speed limits on a case-by-case basis at sensible speeds would do much more to reduce speeding and accidents than any of the measures Chapman proposes.
On the other hand, as another of Scarry's experts, Martin Shooman--the author of a NASA study on EMI and a specialist on risk assessment--puts it: "Most accidents are a sequence of rare circumstances.