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FAA Data Shows Exploding Batteries Are Rare, Small Risk
ericatcw writes "While the US government is intent on adding new rules around the shipment and carrying of Lithium-Ion batteries on passenger and cargo planes, data from its own Federal Aviation Agency show that the risk of being on an airplane where someone — not necessarily you — suffers a minor injury due to a battery is only one in 28 million, reports Computerworld, which analyzed the data (skip to the chart here) using the free Tableau Public data visualization service. Getting killed in a car accident, by contrast, is 4,300 times more likely. Opponents say the rules could raise the cost of shopping online and add hassles for fliers and consumers."
What's more, this failure to assess risk properly is a bigger waste of tax and income than almost anything else, from the tax dollars going to foreign wars, to the insurance dollars wasted on allowing risky behaviour and vehicles on the roads. I find it quite amazing how "fiscally conservative" people can go all knee-jerk about spending money on near-imaginary threats, simply because some right-wing bloviator gets exercised about it, and then regards the (vastly greater) risk of getting killed on the roads or the streets as just an aspect of civil liberties.
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I read someplace that infant safety seats save lives at a cost of about $500,000 for each life saved. Sure, every loving parent wants their kid safe, but for that cost, you could simply drive a standard passenger car rather than an SUV
This is probably the dumbest thing anyone will say on slashdot today, and I do realize the enormity of such a statement. No SUV is the most popular vehicle on the American road. It's pretty much always a Japanese sedan. It was the Camry for a long time, and now it's the Civic. Unless it's changed again recently. A child seat is an insurance policy. There's not $500,000 available to each child seat buyer if we stop buying child seats. And since a passenger car is cheaper to purchase and operate than an SUV, your comment becomes even more nonsensical.
I go in today, and it's like the dentist is getting ready for brain surgery! It's idiotic - as if the human mouth wasn't already one of the most bacteria-laden parts of the body!
And yet, a careless dirty finger can give you gingivitis.
You're trolling right? Nobody is this dumb.
Has there been any kind of study showing that even one life was saved with all this "protection"? Somehow, I sincerely doubt it. But I still get to pay extra for all that...
And yet, your supposedly similar examples are not at all similar.
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