THE SHORT ANSWER IS YES: Does high-tech highway design make us less safe?

More generally, the Peltzman effect suggests that every place in America reachable by the tentacles of the bureaucratic Nanny State is riskier today than ever before.

From my 'wayback machine' I recall predicting that accidents (and insurance rates) would increase after Texas introduced its first seat belt law in September 1985. It happened. The only upside was that the number of accident-related deaths did subside as fewer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darwin_AwardsDarwin award candidates died.

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