martine wrote:So with the road casualty rates plateauing in the UK are there any quick wins (or low-lying fruit) left or can we expect it to be increasingly difficult to improve road safety?
At what point do we lesson the effort/time/expense and move onto something else like drugs, mental health or whatever?
Horse wrote:Final, random, thought: do people 'need' risk? If so, will road fatalities 'saved' move to mountain biking, surfing, even DIY?
TripleS wrote:
We've already reached the point. It is here and it's been here for a while.
Has it not recently been announced that the NHS - presumably on cost grounds - is to curtail the supply of certain cancer treatment drugs? With the finances of the NHS under such strain that they have to do that ...
If we go on like this, the NHS will never have enough money...
martine wrote:So with the road casualty rates plateauing in the UK are there any quick wins (or low-lying fruit) left or can we expect it to be increasingly difficult to improve road safety?
At what point do we lesson the effort/time/expense and move onto something else like drugs, mental health or whatever?
waremark wrote:The big win will come from self driving cars. But we (or our children) have a while to wait.
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Mr Cholmondeley-Warner wrote:But as Horse rather callously, if realistically observes, we will all just die later, of something else. I'll try to be encouraged by that thought.
exportmanuk wrote:waremark wrote:The big win will come from self driving cars. But we (or our children) have a while to wait.
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So some moron walk out in front of a self driving car without looking. The car stops dead. The moronic pedestrian does not eve notice and carries on walking, but the 4 passengers in the car are all injured from the massive braking forces.
Horse wrote:One of my pet hates is when, in news interviews, medicos proudly say how many "lives they have saved" by their new intervention. Uh-oh, no. They just die of something else, later.
MGF wrote:Horse wrote:One of my pet hates is when, in news interviews, medicos proudly say how many "lives they have saved" by their new intervention. Uh-oh, no. They just die of something else, later.
Saving a life doesn't mean making someone immortal. I think you have missed the point. The fact that we are mortal doesn't negate the benefit of saving life as and when it is possible.
MGF wrote:Horse wrote:One of my pet hates is when, in news interviews, medicos proudly say how many "lives they have saved" by their new intervention. Uh-oh, no. They just die of something else, later.
Saving a life doesn't mean making someone immortal. I think you have missed the point. The fact that we are mortal doesn't negate the benefit of saving life as and when it is possible.
Horse wrote:exportmanuk wrote:waremark wrote:The big win will come from self driving cars. But we (or our children) have a while to wait.
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So some moron walk out in front of a self driving car without looking. The car stops dead. The moronic pedestrian does not eve notice and carries on walking, but the 4 passengers in the car are all injured from the massive braking forces.
How's that any different from a moron walking in front of an advanced driver?
Horse wrote:....random, thought: do people 'need' risk? If so, will road fatalities 'saved' move to mountain biking, surfing, even DIY?
Mr Cholmondeley-Warner wrote:The NHS never will have enough money. As our population grows older, more of our GDP will have to be spent on healthcare. The numbers of people involved are many orders of magnitude greater than road casualties. At the same time, if we can continue to invest in research, we may continue to discover new cures.
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