Car seats as contraception

Re:Car seats as contraception by Arnt on Thursday October 01, 2020 @04:13AM (#24648628)

Western societies don't aim for safety at any cost. The states place a cost on each life, and you'll feel that the numbers are too high, but they're numbers, backed by rationales and research.

I looked up the number for one country now, and the report that contains the number also contains references to four decades of academic literature.

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Re:Car seats as contraception by dash2 on Thursday October 01, 2020 @07:51AM (#24649848)

You might be optimistic to think that car safety regulation is designed so as to maximise consumer welfare. See eg https://pubs.aeaweb.org/doi/pdfplus/10.1257/jep.24.3.233

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Re:Car seats as contraception by onemiketwelve on Thursday October 01, 2020 @10:13AM (#24651011)

Exactly, any regulatory decision large or small usually has a ton of research and thought behind it. An interesting episode of planetmoney goes over the history of how to quantify harm/ a human life vs the cost of protective measures. https://www.npr.org/2020/04/15/835571843/episode-991-lives-v...

Apparently the value sits at $10 million USD/ life now. If you take 57 babby * 10M / $200 / car seat = 2.8M car seats. There's apparently 3.7M babbies born in the US/ year. So I think if you accept these numbers it does still make sense.

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Re:Car seats as contraception by himlion on Thursday October 01, 2020 @06:21AM (#24649321)

I recently read that the number is €2.6 million euro for the Netherlands.

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