Zzz wrote:It's been funny, and a little sad at times, to see the attitudes and reception that this technology gets in aviator circles over the last 20 years. The attitude somehow focusing on the irony of a safety rescue device influencing risktaking.

rw2 wrote:

Battson wrote:

Zzz wrote:It's been funny, and a little sad at times, to see the attitudes and reception that this technology gets in aviator circles over the last 20 years. The attitude somehow focusing on the irony of a safety device influencing risktaking.

Welcome to the world.

Take a look at the phase-in of ABS braking... the studies all agree - in the long run, motorists just learn to drive more dangerously and the rate of braking-related accidents remains about the same.

That's human nature.

Interesting. In the US ABS did reduce accident rates. Fatal rates stayed about the same, but overall rates were down 6-8%, which is a fair number. Soure: http://www-nrd.nhtsa.dot.gov/Pubs/811182.pdf

tl;dr Overall rates were down 6-8%. The cost of ABS for the entire automotive fleet is about $6.5B a year. The annual savings from avoided wrecks if $6-8B per year. So they are effectively only a break even item purely economically (i.e. without factoring in pain and suffering).