Wednesday, 16 March 2011

Economics explains almost everything

Why is child safety required in cars but not on aeroplanes?

This time it is all about reducing the cost of the journey. To ensure the safety for our child in the car you just have to buy a safety seat. A big cost or not, in the case of an accident it is very useful and very often it even saves children's lives. But while traveling by plane, to have a safety belt for your child you would have to pay an extra $300, more or less (when we consider a journey from London to NY). It is also good to mention that in the case of a plane crash a belt does't help at all but in less serious circumstances it could. So almost nobody wants to pay such an amount of money just to be careful. 

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