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Target risk Wilde, Gerald JS

By: Publication details: Toronto PDE Publications, 1994Description: 234 sISBN:
  • 0969912404
Subject(s): Bibl.nr: VTI 95.1400Location: Notes: 3 ex Libris Abstract: Antilock braking systems, airbags, seatbelt laws, traffic lights, speed regulations, are all part of mammoth efforts to reduce traffic casualties. But do these measures, and their counterparts in industry and public health, have the effects intended? In his theory of risk homeostasis, the author postulates that they don't, because they fail to influence people's willingness to take risk. Now, for the first time, he collects his famous theory, along with its supporting argument and data, into one fascinating document.
Item type: Reports, conferences, monographs
Holdings: VTI 95.1400

Antilock braking systems, airbags, seatbelt laws, traffic lights, speed regulations, are all part of mammoth efforts to reduce traffic casualties. But do these measures, and their counterparts in industry and public health, have the effects intended? In his theory of risk homeostasis, the author postulates that they don't, because they fail to influence people's willingness to take risk. Now, for the first time, he collects his famous theory, along with its supporting argument and data, into one fascinating document.

3 ex Libris