Comments on: Who’s working on the major advances? (Page) http://www.fireandknowledge.org/archives/2008/05/23/whos-working-on-the-major-advances-page/ A web site by Joshua Sowin that addresses culture, books, technology, ecology, religion, and other topics. Fri, 21 Nov 2008 02:23:15 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.2 By: Andrew http://www.fireandknowledge.org/archives/2008/05/23/whos-working-on-the-major-advances-page/#comment-70188 Andrew Fri, 23 May 2008 17:49:54 +0000 http://www.fireandknowledge.org/archives/2008/05/23/whos-working-on-the-major-advances-page/#comment-70188 I think our society is only organized around sustaining itself. To that end, there are people working toward bettering our quality of life, fixing the floundering economy, and developing improved safety features for automobiles. Perhaps it doesn't receive the same media coverage as Apple's latest tech toy, but that is only a reflection on our priorities as the general, consumer public. As an aside, you have to consider there are nearly 300,000,000 passenger vehicles registered in the United States. According to NHTSA, 1.46 people died for every 100 million miles driven in this country. In 2003, the number was 1.48. In 1966, 5.5 people died per 100 million miles driven. You can see, then, that there are people working on these things. Or maybe people just don't run red lights anymore. Either/or. I think our society is only organized around sustaining itself. To that end, there are people working toward bettering our quality of life, fixing the floundering economy, and developing improved safety features for automobiles. Perhaps it doesn’t receive the same media coverage as Apple’s latest tech toy, but that is only a reflection on our priorities as the general, consumer public.

As an aside, you have to consider there are nearly 300,000,000 passenger vehicles registered in the United States. According to NHTSA, 1.46 people died for every 100 million miles driven in this country. In 2003, the number was 1.48. In 1966, 5.5 people died per 100 million miles driven. You can see, then, that there are people working on these things.

Or maybe people just don’t run red lights anymore. Either/or.

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