Avoiding death at all, literally all cost!

There is this concept, that no price is too high to save a life. Aside from being a sentimental lie, it is impossible to make it real.

There is also this strong belief in the US that all risk in life can be and has to be eliminated. Which is total crap.

When these two brain farts meet, you get the "Cameron Gulbransen Kids Transportation Safety Act" that will require rear-view cameras on all new cars. These systems will cost the car buying public in the US about $400 Million (roughly $ 250 apiece) a year to prevent - wait - 210, yes twohundredandten fatalities a year.

That is 1.9 Million per death, assuming that everybody will be saved and distracted, careless or harried drivers will not keep running over people while backing up and backing out (they will!)

So, toxic emission from coal-burning kill about 12 Mio (!) Americans, but because these deaths are accumulate and occur from related illness (can't see the immediate cause, don't care - like climate change) it is ok for the energy industries to carry on, but if we have 210 deaths that can be decorated with crying parents it is desirable to gouge the population (especially since it brings in another 80 buck of profit per car for the makers).

Yeah, that totally makes sense!