Safety officials tend to look at short - term auto safety issues and then sound the alarm, shrilly, blaming texting and other distracted driving this decade, just as they blamed speed in the 1970s and alcohol in the 1980s.
August 31, 2011 • Because people are more likely to blame public
officials if there is a repeat of a previous disaster,
officials tend to disproportionately focus their
safety efforts on preventing similar disasters in the future, researchers say.