XPost: rec.arts.sf.written, rec.arts.sf.science   
   From: David@block.net   
      
   On 1/14/2014 5:15 PM, Your Name wrote:   
   > In article , David Johnston   
   >  wrote:   
   >   
   >> On 1/14/2014 12:54 PM, Your Name wrote:   
   >>> In article , Greg Goss   
   >>>  wrote:   
   >>>   
   >>>> "J. Clarke"  wrote:   
   >>>>   
   >>>>> In article , robban@clubtelco.com   
   >>>>> says...   
   >>>>   
   >>>>>> In fact, towards the end of the 19th century the traffic situation with   
   >>>>>> horse-drawn vehicles was as bad if not worse than today. There are a few   
   >>>>>> photographs and drawings around of grid lock in London and elsewhere.   
   >>>>>> Road accidents were also very common. No speedometers or speed limits   
   >>>>>> back then.   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> And Christopher Reeve would have told you that horses are not   
   >>>>> particularly safe.   
   >>>>   
   >>>> As could Pierre Curie's widow.   
   >>>   
   >>> Horse travel is just as safe as any other form of transport - people   
   >>> have died using any of them.   
   >>   
   >> People have died using any of them does mean that they are all equally   
   >> safe.   
   >   
   > It means none of them are completely safe.   
      
   Which is not the same thing as all being "just as safe".   
      
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