What our children have to fear is not the cars on the highways of tomorrow but our own pleasure in calculating the most elegant parameters of their deaths.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Today, tomorrow and every day, we will see at least 2,000 young children killed or seriously injured on the world's roads. This is unacceptable, preventable, and we have to stop it. We have the vaccines for this disease: helmets, seatbelts, speed enforcement, safe road design. We just need to use them.
If we knew about the real facts and statistics of mortality, we'd be terrified.
A car is a killing machine. It's like waving a loaded gun. People don't realise how dangerous they are.
Of all the hazards, fear is the worst.
The loss of a child is the most terrifying place for me to go.
Automobiles are dangerous as all get-out.
The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead.
There is so much we can do to save lives on our roads.
Once the automobile appeared you could have predicted that it would destroy as many people as it did.
The news media is so quick to pick up tragic stories of imperiled children that it seems like there are more terrible events today than ever before - when in fact it's quite the opposite. It is, in all manners possible to calculate, the safest time in the history of civilization to be a kid.