Jim Hodges Quotes

We lose 30,000 lives on our highways every year. We can certainly do better.

The M6 is terrible and there are always accidents when there is a big highway with lots of traffic.

If we could do away with traffic accidents, that'd be wonderful. There'd be more than a million people saved every year on this planet.

In the '70s, there were economists who argued that seat belts were causing people to drive faster and kill more pedestrians. But after 15 or 20 years of research, we can now conclude that's actually not true. Seat belts, on net, do make people safer. So, on an evidence-based process, we should have people wear seat belts.

Safety on our highways has improved significantly, with the help of the Legislature and the media.

Nobody would be killed on the roads if the speed limit were 10 miles an hour.

Today, tomorrow and every day, we will see at least 2,000 young children killed or seriously injured on the world's roads. This is unacceptable, preventable, and we have to stop it. We have the vaccines for this disease: helmets, seatbelts, speed enforcement, safe road design. We just need to use them.

There is so much we can do to save lives on our roads.

Car accidents kill so many of us; we're not going to give up cars, so it seems like we ought to make them harder to crash.

It's as if people used the invention of seat belts as an opportunity to take up drunk driving.

We do always have to make sure we keep people safe. There are the right ways of doing it, and then there are ways that are ineffective.

I've stopped racing to get to the red light.

The guard rails on a highway may restrict some folks from driving the way they want, but those rules mostly end up saving the lives of those other drivers who understand that living in a society means behaving in a commonly beneficial way.

When you think of driverless cars, there's a huge potential for these cars to save lives by preventing accidents and by reducing congestion on highways.

People have to be more careful in traffic. It's hard to ride bikes in Curitiba.

The crashes people remember, but drivers remember the near misses.

It's so nice to share a day as beautiful as this one with hundreds of thousands of reckless drivers.

Remember that the worst accidents occur in the middle of the road.

The highways are crowded with people who drive as if their sole purpose in getting behind the wheel is to avenge every wrong done them by man, beast or fate. The only thing that keeps them in line is their fear of death, jail and lawsuits.

This is interesting. Researchers have found that people who drive drunk are more dangerous on the road than drivers who are high on marijuana. Don't get too excited. It's mostly because the drivers using marijuana are just sitting in the Taco Bell drive-through.

Lets us all have an open conversation about what this might mean if [Donald] Trump gets his way or how we might be able to adjust that and make American people safer.

If you recognize that self-driving cars are going to prevent car accidents, AI will be responsible for reducing one of the leading causes of death in the world.

More people die on a per mile basis from drunk walking than from drunk driving.

Take it easy driving– the life you save may be mine.

One: demonstrations always crash. And two: the probability of them crashing goes up exponentially with the number of people watching.