Originally Posted by DrPete
The hilarious thing is that this guy doesn't think he's assuming a risk by getting into his car and driving it.
Has anyone read the Time magazine article from last week about perceived risk and real risk? It looked interesting but I'm not a Time subscriber so I haven't found it yet...
i read it. very interesting article actually. they talk a lot about how feeling in control leads you to think you're safer. that's why many people feel safer driving than, say, flying. even though 44,000 people die per year in automobile accidents and only a few dozen die in airline travel.
they also talked about real and immediate dangers as opposed to hype. take heart disease, for example, which kills something like 600,000 people per year. then take the avian bird flu, or mad cow disease, which has killed 0 people in the US. you'd think more people would be concerned about taking care of their heart, but it's not the reality.