If cars keep getting safer, will people keep driving crazier? cuhulin
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Crash Test Dummy #1 to Crash Test Dummy #2.
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Yes. That's called "moral hazard", or "offsetting behavior".
It's a well-known phenomenon, and likely explains why the rate of collisions, injuries and deaths has continued to fall at approximately the same rate since 1911, with little discernible connection to safety-related improvements to cars, roads or health care.