• @[email protected]
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    1011 months ago

    The actual reasoning by the NHTSA is that busses are statistically safer than other methods of getting to school, and that adding and requiring seatbelts reduces ridership, which pushes students to less safe ways of getting to school, and also costs money that isn’t justified by the number of lives and injuries saved.

    Statistically, a human life in the US is worth about $7.5 million. So if your intervention costs $8 million and only saves one life, then you’re in the hole $500 thousand.

    • @Zeth0s
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      311 months ago

      You are expansive guys…

      • @maniclucky
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        611 months ago

        I thought you meant expensive, but given the obesity epidemic, the sentence works either way.

        • @Zeth0s
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          11 months ago

          Hahaha, expensive expandable expendables!

          But yeah, I meant expensive