Why your child's school bus has no seat belts

Re:Why your child's school bus has no seat belts by Symmetry on Wednesday December 29, 2010 @03:05PM (#2049978)

Yes, the TSA's policies cause somewhere on the order of 100 extra road deaths each year.

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Re:Why your child's school bus has no seat belts by skymt on Wednesday December 29, 2010 @03:54PM (#2050119)

If you have a source for that number, I'd love to spread it around.

Edit: I found a paper from 2007 that claims there were 129 extra driving fatalities in the last quarter of 2002 due to harsher airport security. http://aem.cornell.edu/faculty_sites/gb78/wp/JLE_6301.pdf (page 27)

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Re:Why your child's school bus has no seat belts by paulgerhardt on Wednesday December 29, 2010 @04:47PM (#2050284)

And another 1,200 more deaths than expected in the three months following 9/11: http://ur.umich.edu/0405/Nov22_04/09.shtml

Or that backscatter X-ray machines odds of giving you cancer are roughly equal to those of dying in a terrorist attack: http://cosmiclog.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2010/11/16/5477568-are-...

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Re:Why your child's school bus has no seat belts by Symmetry on Wednesday December 29, 2010 @05:07PM (#2050336)

Yes, and I've also seen 150 road deaths on one http://www.thenewamerican.com/index.php/usnews/constitution/... and 190.7 deaths via all TSA causes in another that even includes methodoloty http://patrick.wagstrom.net/weblog/2010/11/24/do-the-tsa-new... The bias of those sources might skew their results, but I really doubt the number is less than 50, hence my use of "on the order of".

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