Are our Slants "Unsafe"?

actually it's a simple case of physics.

Yup. And the laws of physics stubbornly remain in effect despite any amount of dim and wishful thinking and anecdotal my-cousin's-brother's-housemate-survived-in-a-1966-Cadillac-so-obviously-old-cars-are-safer babbling.

however, you can invent the safest car in the world, and it still won't cure individual stupidity. that's a whole nother can of worms.

Yup! Check out this crapmess. At least he had the completely unintentional decency not to drag anyone else along with him when he ejected himself from the gene pool. The cognitive dissonance in the article is utterly predictable but astounding nonetheless: You could not find a greater person than Adam Rosenthal (…) It can happen to anybody (…) Rosenthal was married and a father of four. None of these assertions can be reconciled. If he was such a great person, then why was he so carelessly, willfully and deliberately slack in his duty to remain alive to be there for his wife and four kids? It's either/or, not both. And no, this could not "happen to anybody". It could happen only to someone so suicidally, deliberately careless as Mr. Rosenthal doing 70 in a 45, no seatbelt, futzing with his computer. :roll: Willful stupidity doesn't have consequences nearly as often as it should, it's just a shame it's his poor family who have to pay the consequences instead of the perpetrator of the willful stupidity.