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From: info@hoekstra-uitgeverij.nl (Richard Bos)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.functional
Subject: Re: How Ada could have prevented the Red Code distributed denial of
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Date: Thu, 02 Aug 2001 08:25:23 GMT
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cross@augusta.math.psu.edu (Dan Cross) wrote:

> In article <Xz%97.2632$B37.106689@news1.rdc1.bc.home.com>,
> Kaz Kylheku <kaz@ashi.footprints.net> wrote:
> >>Chain saw guards - not needed, just use them properly!
> >>Seat belts - not needed, just drive properly!
> >
> >Can you drive improperly or saw improperly because of the presence of
> >safety features?
> 
> Sure you can!  But the incidences of people chopping off their fingers
> or being thrown through windshields went way down once chainsaw guards
> and seat belts came into widespread use.

Yes, and the seat belt actually nicely illustrates Kaz's point.

Immediately after the seat belt was introduced, the number of fatalities
in accidents plummeted.

The years after, the number slowly rose again, because drivers adapted
to the new safety level seat belts provided and were willing to take
risks they wouldn't have taken without them.

The nature of the fatalities have changed, yes. Nowadays, it's mostly
innocent bystanders that get killed, not the driver that flies through
the windscreen.

Richard