{"id":14263,"date":"2016-06-30T09:00:53","date_gmt":"2016-06-30T13:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=14263"},"modified":"2016-06-30T11:20:03","modified_gmt":"2016-06-30T15:20:03","slug":"requiring-safety-features-on-cars-can-increase-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2016\/requiring-safety-features-on-cars-can-increase-death\/","title":{"rendered":"Requiring Safety Features On Cars Can Increase Death"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/063016_1507_RequiringSa1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"642\" height=\"434\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Alex Tabarrok wrote that in certain circumstances requiring safety features on cars can actually detract from, rather than enhance safety:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Indian auto manufacturers recently released a series of low cost cars that have a safety rating of zero stars, due to their lack of features such as air bags.<\/li>\n<li>Because they lack any bells and whistles such cars are incredibly cheap \u2013 one can be had for as little as $4,000.<\/li>\n<li>Adding air bags could cost as much as $400, increasing the price of the vehicle by a substantial 10%.<\/li>\n<li>Only 6% of Indian households have cars, but 47% have motorcycles.<\/li>\n<li>Any kind of motorcycle is more dangerous than a car. And not even the most advanced motorcycle has features like airbags.<\/li>\n<li>If low cost cars can convince Indians to switch to four wheeled vehicles, safety will dramatically improve \u2013 even if the cars themselves lack common safety features.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read more of the argument <a href=\"http:\/\/marginalrevolution.com\/marginalrevolution\/2016\/05\/safety-is-relative.html\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/marginalrevolution.com\/marginalrevolution\/2016\/05\/safety-is-relative.html\">Marginal Revolution<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alex Tabarrok wrote that in certain circumstances requiring safety features on cars can actually detract from, rather than enhance safety: Indian auto manufacturers recently released a series of low cost cars that have a safety rating of zero stars, due to their lack of features such as air bags. Because they lack any bells and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14262,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/063016_1507_RequiringSa1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14263","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14263"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14263\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14266,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14263\/revisions\/14266"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}