The French and Korean president every election or so pardons all minor traffic offences. The accident rate goes up on the eve of this pardon.
Despite the obvious incentive effect of safer cars on risk taking, I have argued with people until they were black and blue where they were denying that accident rates respond to incentives and risks. My interlocutor even denied that his driving habits would change if seat belts were banned. Oddly enough, he did believe that people acted on better information about risks. I do not know why he thought they had an incentive to act on new information.
I mentioned this French pardon in another conversation. He mentioned that when he lived in Paris, he would save up his traffic and parking tickets in anticipation of the pardon.
Armen Alchian’s famous solution to speeding was to put a jagged spike in car wheels to make…
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