Elf Sternberg

Heh. Good point.

But when cars were first introduced, they too had very high statistical death rates (measured in "per thousand miles travelled" for example). For some bizarre reason it still took some 50 years before someone finally sat up and took notice and said "Hey, maybe putting plate glass windshields and not having restraining devices in them is a *bad* idea!"

I guess people were just having too much fun with their cars to care if the death rate was 40,000 per year, even with fewer people driving back then.