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Originally Posted by CentralGrad258
This is complete overkill. I'm far from an anti-government libertarian, but this is regulatory over kill. In fact, stupid regulations like this, make it hard to justify other government actions that actually make sense because they all get lumped together.
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Yeah, based on what I've read, I'm definitely on the same page as you. I was incensed by this bit:
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"In terms of absolute numbers of lives saved, it certainly isn’t the highest," Mr. Ditlow said. "But in terms of emotional tragedy, backover deaths are some of the worst imaginable. When you have a parent that kills a child in an incident that’s utterly avoidable, they don’t ever forget it."
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It sounds like he's suggesting that the lives of 90 or so children are worth more than those of adolescents or adults many times that number. Weak sauce. Definitely not a legit rational for such costly regulation. And saving 100 lives a year in a population of 310+ million seems like a hugely inefficient way of spending $2.7 billion. If saving lives really is the priority here, I'm certain that amount, if it's to be extracted from consumers, could go a lot further.
ETA: I wonder how many of the parents who killed their kids were driving huge SUVs...