Exactly. An umbrella that works in light drizzle but not when it's pithing down.
There aren't really that many road deaths now (I know the relatives of 1,800 people a year would say different, but the number of miles driven is enormous).
It's interesting to think about how much that could be reduced. What's happened with air travel is astonishing. And most of the very few hull losses there are are still caused by pilot error (is my impression).
UK road deaths exceeded 7,000 by the end of the 1920s when there were about a million motor vehicles on the roads. Now with 32 million we are down to c. 2,000. Crudely they were proportionately 100 times worse in 1929!
Last edited by: Manatee on Tue 25 Aug 20 at 17:47
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