{"id":4329,"date":"2010-03-12T12:01:20","date_gmt":"2010-03-12T16:01:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/henrypayne.com\/?p=4329"},"modified":"2010-03-17T11:01:50","modified_gmt":"2010-03-17T15:01:50","slug":"traffic-fatalities-hit-record-low-national-review-03-12-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/2010\/03\/traffic-fatalities-hit-record-low-national-review-03-12-10","title":{"rendered":"Traffic Fatalities Hit Record Low (National Review, 03.12.10)"},"content":{"rendered":"

As with global warming, perpetuating Michael Crichton’s proverbial “state of fear” is crucial to advancing the public-safety lobby’s auto-regulatory state. Over the last 15 years, we’ve been told that: <\/p>\n

– Ditching the federal 55-MPH speed limit would cause carnage.<\/p>\n

– Increased sales of unstable, rollover-prone SUVs would cause carnage.<\/p>\n

– Cell phone use in vehicles would cause carnage.
\n– And now that automakers’ conversion to electronic controls (like Toyota gas pedals) have caused carnage.<\/p>\n

And as with global warming, facts keep getting in the way. . . <\/p>\n

Read full article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As with global warming, perpetuating Michael Crichton’s proverbial “state of fear” is crucial to advancing the public-safety lobby’s auto-regulatory state. Over the last 15 years, we’ve been told that: – Ditching the federal 55-MPH speed limit would cause carnage. – Increased sales of unstable, rollover-prone SUVs would cause carnage. – Cell phone use in vehicles […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[87],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4329"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4329"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4329\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4330,"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4329\/revisions\/4330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}